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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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1901. Wild Sport in the Outer Hebrides. London : 1901. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 133, with front., port., and 
ill. 
Note . — Contains chapters on Pigeon Caves, Woodcock and 
Snipe, Shooting Geese, Flighting, Haunts of the Grey Lag Goose, 
Wild Swan, and a List of the Animals and Birds actually seen by 
the Author (pp. 107-27). 
Pennant (Thomas), 1726-98 
Pennant, perhaps the best known of the British zoologists 
of the eighteenth century, came of an old Welsh family of 
some distinction, and was born at Downing, Flintshire, in 
June 1726 . He united more than an average ability as a 
naturalist with the reputation of an “ elegant scholar and 
refined gentleman/’ He himself related that his taste for 
natural history was implanted in him at twelve years of age 
by his becoming possessed of a copy of the celebrated Orni- 
thology of Willughby. On reaching manhood, he travelled 
extensively over various parts of the United Kingdom, the 
record of which journeys has been preserved in his various 
published works. He also travelled on the Continent and 
formed acquaintance with many of the leading naturalists 
of the day. It was in fact on the recommendation of Linnaeus 
that he was in 1757 elected to the Royal Society of Upsala. 
He first commenced the British Zoology in 1761 , the first 
edition in folio being published by the Cymmrodorion Society 
in 1766 . A German edition of this issue, with text in Latin 
and German and folio plates, similar to the English issue, 
was published a few years later. 
His correspondence with Gilbert White commenced in 
1767 , and he obtained from that great observer considerable 
material for later editions of his British Zoology. Four 
editions were published in his lifetime, of which, however, 
the third ( 1770 ) consisted really only of additions to the 
second edition. The new edition published posthumously 
in 1812 was edited by his son-in-law Hanmer, who had 
assistance from Latham and others, and contains of course 
much matter for which Pennant is not responsible. His 
