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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Pycraft (William Plane), nat. 1868 
Mr. Pycraft, an assistant at the British Museum (Natural 
History), is a specialist in avian and reptilian anatomy, 
external and internal, consequently little of his work comes 
within the scope of our bibliography. He was from 1907 
to 1910 an assistant editor of Witherby’s British Birds 
(vols. i.-iii.), and was a contributor to Kirkman’s recently 
completed British Bird Book . In his own special department 
he has done much good work and has published many papers 
in the Ibis , British Birds , Bull. B.O.C. , and other journals, 
including a series of articles entitled “ Contributions to the 
Osteology of Birds ” in the recent volumes of Proc. Zool. 
Soo., of which society he is a Fellow, while he is also an 
Associate of the Linnean Society and a Member of the B.O.U. 
In 1900 he published The Story of Bird Life , in 1908 A Book 
of Birds, in 1909 a useful general History of Birds. 
1888. Ornithological Notes from the neighbourhood of Yarmouth. ( Tr . 
Norf. and None., Nat. Soc. iv. pp. 457-61.) 
1898. The gular pouch of the Great Bustard. (Nat. Science, xiii. pp. 313- 
23, 5 figs.) 
1899. Note on the external nares of the Cormorant. ( J . Linn. Soc. Zool. 
xxvii, pp. 207-9.) 
1904. Occurrence of the Kildeer Plover in Scotland. (Bull. B.O.C. 
p. 187 : Ibis, pp. 669-70.) 
1905. On Sabine’s Snipe. (Ibis, pp. 289-91.) 
1906. On a hybrid between a male Black Cock and a Hen Pheasant. 
(Bull. B.O.C. xvi. pp. 54-5.) 
1907. Nesting Birds, and some of the problems they present. (Brit. 
Birds, i. pp. 102-6, 129-33, 162-7.) 
Late Nestings of the Bearded Tit. (T.c. pp. 154-5.) 
Report on the Food of the Black-headed Gull. (T.c. pp. 191-2.) 
On the origin of the differences between nestling birds. (Ornis, 
xiv. pp. 454-7.) 
1908. On the position of the Ear on the Woodcock. (Ibis, pp. 551-8 ; 
Brit, Birds, ii. pp. 245-6.) 
The “ Powder-down ” of the Heron. (Brit. Birds, pp. 343-6.) 
The Nest and Nestlings of the Bearded Tit. (T.c. pp. 58-9.) 
The Nest of the Ringed Plover, and the bearing thereof on the 
evolution of Birds’ Nests in general. (T.c. pp. 373-80.) 
Marsh-Harriers in Norfolk. (T.c. pp. 93-4.) 
