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probably only the part here dealt with appeared (in 1835). 
The prospectus seems to have aroused some interest, and the 
first number is criticised by Neville Wood (in Orn. Text-book , 
1836, p. 96), in the Analyst, no. xii., and also in vols. viii. 
and ix. of Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History. The 
following extract from vol. viii. pp. 523-4, will give some 
notion of the scope and composition of the work. 
“ Perrott, Mrs. C. L. E., Honorary Corresponding 
Member of the Worcestershire Natural History Society : A 
Selection of British Birds frequenting Worcestershire and the 
adjoining Counties. Illustrated by Drawings from Nature ; 
with Observations on their Habits ; the Drawings by the 
Authoress of the “ Observations,” and engraved by Robert 
Havell. The work is dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal 
Highness the Landgravine of Hesse Hombourg. Elephant 
folio. In two-monthly Parts ; each to contain 5 plates and 
5 pages of letterpress. Price, with the plates uncoloured, 
14s. ; with them coloured, 1L. Is. : to be completed in two 
volumes, the extent of which is not specified.” 
“ In Part I. the male of the fowl of the Hamburg breed, 
the wood-pigeon, the raven, the whinchat, and the blue 
tit, are depicted, and descriptive matter to all but the last 
of these is supplied. Six pages of letterpress are included in 
this part ; one of them contains the £ preface,’ whence we 
quote that ‘ under the influence of the [Worcestershire 
Natural History] Society, a general interest in the different 
branches of natural history pervaded the whole county : . . . 
and with improved health, I resumed my pen, anxious that 
what little information I had gleaned in the course of fifteen 
years’ attention and observation, from the studies which 
had proved the charm of my life, might be rendered available 
to pursuits so generally advantageous to mankind.” 
Phillips (Edward Cambridge), not. 1840 
This author is responsible for one of the few existing 
Welsh county avi-f annas. His acceptable little work arose 
out of a series of five papers originally contributed to the 
