plot] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 475 
his friend Sir Thomas Browne on a tour in England in 
1693. 
It cannot be said that Plot’s observations on the birds of 
Oxfordshire contain anything of much interest or value ; he 
was a somewhat credulous writer, and seems to have been a 
better authority on plants than on birds. His History of 
Staffordshire, however, is a more important work, and the 
ornithological matter is of some value. 
He died at his house at Sutton-Barn on April 30, 1696, 
and was buried at Borden, Kent. 
1677. The | Natural History | of | Oxford-shire, | Being an Essay toward 
the Natural History | of | England. | By B.P. LL.D. | [Quota- 
tion from Arat. in Phsenom.] [Engraving] Printed at the Theater 
in Oxford, and are to he had there : | And in London at Mr. S. 
Millers, at the Star near the | West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 
1677. | The price in sheets at the Press, nine shillings. | To 
Subscribers, eight shillings. 
(The Imprimatur is dated April 13, 1676.) 
Collation — 1 vol. folio, pp. 11 un. + pp. 358 + pp. 12, errata 
and index. Map and 16 pi. 
Ornithology, pp. 175-80 (chap, vii.) under the heading “ Of 
Brutes.” 
The above is the first edition. 
The | Natural History | of | Oxford-shire, | Being an Essay toward 
the Natural History | of | England. | By Bobert Plot, Doctor 
of Laws. | [Quotation from Arat. in Phsenom.] [Engraving] 
Printed at the Theater in Oxford, and are to be had there : | 
And in London at Mr. Moses Pits at the Angel in St. Pauls | 
Church-yard, and at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near | the West- 
end of St. Pauls Church. 
(Undated, the Imprimatur is dated April 13, 1676.) 1 vol. 
folio. 
Collation, ut supra. Presumably a reissue of the first edition. 
[Agassiz, vol, iv. p. 117, ascribes an edition to the year 1686. 
Not seen.] 
1705. The | Natural History | of | Oxford-shire, | Being an Essay towards 
the Natural History | of | England. | Bv | Bobert Plot, LL.D., | 
Late Keeper of the | Ashmolean Museum, | and | Professor of 
Chymistry | in the | University of Oxford. | [Quotation from 
Arat. in Phsenom.] The Second Edition, with large Additions 
and Corrections : | Also a short Account of the Author, &c.||| 
Oxford : | Printed by Leon. Lichfield, for Charles Brome, at the 
Gun near | the West-End of St. Paul’s Church, and John Nichol- 
son | at the King’s- Arms in Little-Britain, London. 1705. 
