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localities they frequent, whether summer or winter visitors, 
and a reference to the page in the second part on which a 
short description is found. 
1901. A Ready Aid to Distinguish The Commoner Wild Birds of Great 
Britain. London (Gurney & Jackson) : 1901. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. iv + pp. 60. 
Idem. Another edit, or reissue. Ib. 1907, pp. 62. 
Proctor (William), 1794 (?)-1874 (?) 
William Proctor, curator for from forty-eight to fifty 
years of Durham University Museum, is thought to have been 
born about 1794. He was a well-known collector of birds and 
eggs, and made an expedition to Iceland with Adamson in 
1826, and another journey to the same island in 1837. A 
portrait of him in his Iceland dress forms the final tail-piece 
to the 4th edit, of YarrelFs British Birds . He contributed 
articles on ornithology to the Naturalist (1838) and Annals of 
Natural History { 1840). He died about 1874. The MS. Journal 
of his expeditions in Iceland is in the Newton Library at 
Cambridge. He was responsible for the List of Birds found 
in the County in the undermentioned works. 
1846. Sketches of Durham : | being an attempt to indicate to the stranger 
some | of the most prominent | Objects of Interest | in that 
place and neighbourhood ; | illustrated by | Historical, Bio- 
graphical, and Architectural Notices. | By The Rev. George 
Ornsby, | [etc. 2 lines] | [vignettes and motto] | Durham : | 
George Andrews, Saddler-Street. | London : | Whittaker & Co. | 
MDCCCXLVI. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. vi + pp. 226, + 1. of Addenda, front, 
and 3 pi. 
List of Birds, pp. 196-201. 
Proger (T. W.). See Drane (R.) 
Pulman (George Philip Rigney), 1819-80 
This writer, a printer, bookseller, and newspaper editor, 
was born at Axminster, Devon, February 21, 1819, and 
died February 3, 1880. He also wrote Rustic Sketches , and 
other works on angling, etc. 
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