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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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1865. A List of Birds noticed in London during 1863-64. ( Zoologist , 
xxiii. pp. 9727-8.) 
1869. Notes at Bainham, Kent, and neighbourhood. (Op. cit. ser. 2, IV. 
pp. 1496, 1499.) 
1881-86. Ornithological Notes from Cley-next-the-Sea, 3 pts. (In Norf. 
and Norw. N.H. Soc. iii. pp. 345-50 ; iv. pp. 36-43, 186-9.) 
[1910.] Ornithological Notes from a South London Suburb, 1874-1909. 
A Summary of 35 years’ observations, with some facts and 
fancies concerning migration. London (Glaisher) : [1910]. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 60, 5 pi. and folding table. 
Powys (Thomas Lyttelton). See Lilford (Lord) 
PoyntinGt (Frank), 1848-97 
The author of the undermentioned authoritative and 
beautifully-executed work on the eggs of the British wading 
birds, did not, as far as we are aware, write anything else 
on ornithology, save some short notes of a fugitive nature. 
He resided at Birmingham. His work has always been in 
high esteem, although his untimely death, which prevented 
its completion, deprived the work of its full value. 
1895-96. Eggs of British Birds (Limicolw) with an account of their breed- 
ing habits. London : 1895-6. 
Collation — 4 vol. 4to. Issued in 4 pts. (Pts. I. and II., 1895 ; 
Pts. III. and IV., 1896), containing 54 coloured plates of figures 
with descriptive text. (Pub. £5 net.) 
Pratt (Anne), 1806-93 
This well-known botanical writer was born December 5, 
1806, in Strood, Kent, being the second of three daughters 
of Robert Pratt, a wholesale grocer of that town ; her mother, 
Sarah Bundock, being of Huguenot descent. Her youth 
was spent at Chatham, whither her father removed, and she 
was educated at Rochester. Long before she left Chatham 
in 1846 she had taken up the study of botany, making many 
drawings afterwards published in her books, and in 1849 
she settled at Dover and there wrote her principal works on 
the British flora, etc. She married John Pearless, of East 
