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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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There were three subjects connected with ornithology in 
which Newton was specially interested. The first relates to 
the avifauna, existing and extinct, of the Mascarene Islands. 
He managed, in conjunction with his brother Edward (1832- 
1897), sometime Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius, to pro- 
cure a fine series of bones of the Dodo from that island, and 
also the Solitaire of Rodriguez (Pezophaps solitarius ). The 
second of the two subjects relates to the Great Auk, his 
interest in which he may be said to have inherited from 
Wolley ; and the third, to the history and occurrences of the 
Great Bustard in the British Islands. 
From 1865 to 1870 Newton edited the second series of 
the Ibis, and, in resigning the editorship in October 1870, 
pleaded that engagements no less pressing than numerous 
had for some time past urged upon him the advisability of 
retiring. 
He wrote the Appendix to Baring-Gould’s Iceland, to the 
Arctic Manual , to Lubbock’s Fauna of Norfolk, etc. He was 
chairman of the Close- Time Committee, and of the British 
Association Committee on the Migration of Birds. Elected 
F.R.S. in 1870, he was a Vice-President both of the Royal 
and Zoological Societies. 
Amongst his numerous publications, some of the most 
important are the first two volumes of the fourth edition of 
Yarrell (vols. iii. and iv. of which were completed by Howard 
Saunders), the Dictionary of Birds, 1893-96, and the Oothecce 
Wolley ana, begun in 1864 but not completed until 1907. 
For the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica he was 
chosen to write the bird articles, which were incorporated, 
with some additions and emendations, in the Dictionary of 
Birds. Newton’s erudition and ornithological knowledge are 
perhaps best exemplified in this work, in the Introduction to 
which he exhibits some of his bibliographical information, 
which was superior to that of most British ornithologists 
of his day. The Wolley collection of birds’ eggs was be- 
queathed to him, and this, in conjunction with his own 
accumulations of over half a century, he presented in his 
