nelson] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 431 
Illustrated with Engravings, | — | London : | printed for Sher- 
wood Jones and Co. | Paternoster-row : | Sold by Joseph Nash, 
39 Great Windmill Street, | Haymarket. | — | 1824. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. vi + 1 l.+pp. 102, with 8 col. pi. 
and 28 pp. of advts. 
Note. — Found also with uncoloured plates. 
1876. British Song Birds : the mode of rearing them. Coloured 
Illustrations by Newton Fielding. 
Collation — 1 vol. square 8vo, pp. 96 and 8 pi., cuts in text. 
Note. — A reissue of the above, title changed. 
Neill (Patrick), 1776-1851 
Neill, a printer and publisher by trade, was an ardent 
lover of natural history. His firm, established in 1749, 
printed all but the first two volumes of Jardine’s Naturalist's 
Library, 1833-43. He published besides the Tour a notice 
of the Great Auk at Papa Westray in the Scots Magazine for 
March 1814 (cf. Buckley and Harvie-Brown’s Vert. Fauna 
of Orkney, pp. 246-47), and also several works on gardening. 
He was an LL.D. of Aberdeen University, 1834, F.L.S., 
F.R.S.E., and Secretary for a time of the Horticultural 
Society of Scotland. He died in 1851, his business being 
carried on by his nephews, Alexander and Patrick Neill 
Fraser. 
1806. A | Tour | through some of the | Islands | of | Orkney and Shet- 
land, | with a view chiefly to | objects of Natural History. | 
but including also | occasional remarks on the state of the 
inhabitants, their husbandry, | and fisheries. | By | Patrick Neill, 
A.M. | Secretary to the Natural History Society | of Edinburgh. | 
With | An Appendix, | [etc. 3 lines.] | Edinburgh : Printed for 
A. Constable and Company, | and John Murray, London. | 1806. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 239. 
Numerous references to Birds, and list pp. 194-204. 
Nelson (Thomas Hudson), nat. 1856 
Mr. Nelson, who was born at Bishop Auckland, Co. 
Durham, February 12, 1856, and educated at King James’s 
School in that town, as well as privately under the late Marquis 
de Kervan, follows no profession and is interested in general 
natural history, but more especially in ornithology. He is 
