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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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conchology, but it contained a sufficient number of British 
birds to make it of historical importance. To its Catalogue 
we owe the introduction of the Hairy Woodpecker ([ Dendroco - 
jpus major ] Pious villosus) to the British list, a pair of these birds 
having been shot in the park of Sir George Armitage, Bart., 
at Kirklees Hall, Yorkshire, and passing into the possession of 
the Duchess, and also, it is said, the first identified nest of 
the Lesser Whitethroat, which bird had been described the 
year previously (1785) by Dr. Lightfoot in the Philos. Trans- 
actions. She was immortalised by Prior, as “ My noble, 
lovely little Peggy.” 
*1786. A | Catalogue | of the | Portland Museum, | Lately the property 
of | The Duchess Dowager of Portland, | deceased : | which 
will be sold by auction, | by | Mr. Skinner and Co. | On Monday 
the 24th of April, 1786, | and the | Thirty-Seven follow- 
ing Days, | [etc. 4 lines] At her Dwelling-House, | In Privy- 
Garden, Whitehall ; | By order of the Acting Executrix. | To be 
viewed Ten Days preceeding the Sale. | Catalogues may now be 
had on the Premises, and of Mr. Skinner | and Co, Aldersgate- 
Street, Price Five shillings, which will admit | the Bearer 
during the Time of Exhibition and Sale. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to. Frontis.+pp. viii + pp. 3-194. 
British birds, pp. 37-8 and pp. 73-5. 
Potter (Thomas Bossell), 1799-1873 
See Babxngton (C.) 
Power (Frederick Douglas), viv. 
Dr. F. D. Power, M.R.C.S., has resided at Brixton for the 
last thirty-five years, and the interesting and original observa- 
tions he has made there are fully set forth in the book men- 
tioned below. For twenty years previously, however, he 
resided at Little Ealing, and with his brother, W. H. Power, 
worked the Brent Valley and Kingsbury Reservoir, some 
of his observations at this period being recorded in R. H. 
Read’s List of Birds of the Lower Brent Valley. The 1865 
list of birds noticed in 1863-64 refers to Queen’s Square, 
Bloomsbury, and enumerates 24 species. 
