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to the Zoologist from 1847 to 1866 . He also supplied 
notes to W. S. M. D’Urban for The Birds of Devon. The 
celebrated Colonel Montagu employed a person named 
Gibbs to stuff birds for him, and after him a legal gentleman 
named Nicholas Luscombe took up the pursuit and set up 
some specimens for Montagu. He was followed by his son, 
Nicholas Luscombe, jun., who imparted the art to Henry 
Nicholls when he was about sixteen years old, and he followed 
it as a business until 1865 , when he handed it over to his 
brother, Mr. R. P. Nicholls. 
For a paper by Mr. Edmund A. S. Elliott on A Century's 
Work on Ornithology in the Kingsbridge District , mentioning 
Nicholls’ records, see Transactions of Devonshire Association 
for Adv. of Science, etc., 1897 (vol. xxix. pp. 167 - 74 ). 
1847. Rare Birds occurring at Kingsbridge, South Devon. ( Zoologist , 
pp. 1694-5.) 
1864. List of Birds of the Kingsbridge District. (Appendix 0 to Miss 
S. P. Pox’s “ Kingsbridge Estuary ; with Rambles in the Neigh- 
bourhood.”) Kingsbridge : 1864. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 172, with 26 pi. 
Birds at pp. 146-7. 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1874. 
1866. Rare Birds near Kingsbridge. ( Zoologist , pp. 526-7.) 
Nicholls (Henry George), 1825-67 
H. G. Nicholls, only son of Sir George Nicholls, K.C.B., 
was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A., 1848 ). 
He became Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity, Dean Forest, 
in 1847, and states that his Forest of Dean was “ derived 
from personal observation and other sources, public, private, 
legendary and local.” For his brief remarks on the birds 
he acknowledges his indebtedness to Messrs. Machen and 
Gee. He also wrote The Personalities of the Forest of Dean 
. . . forming an appendix to . . . the Forest of Dean ( 1863 ), 
and another volume on iron-making in the olden times in 
the Forest. He held his Perpetual Curacy till his death, 
which took place at 26 Porchester Terrace, London, January 
1 , 1867 . 
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