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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[SAUNDERS 
of the British Ornithologists 5 Club, when it was founded in 
1892. The fifth and seventh series of the Ihis were issued 
under his editorship, conjointly with Sclater ; while from 
1877 to 1881 he acted as the Recorder of Aves for the 
Zoological Record , and from 1880 to 1885 as Secretary of 
Section D. (Zoology) at the meetings of the British Associa- 
tion. In 1884 he edited Vieillot’s Analyse for the Willughby 
Society, and for many years was a reviewer of books on 
natural history, sport, and travel, especially for the 
Athenceum. 
Saunders had a world- wide reputation as an authority on 
the family Laridae (Gulls and Terns), and published important 
papers on it in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 
London for 1876-78, and the Journal of the Linnean Society 
(Zoology) for 1878 ; hence he was naturally selected to write 
the portion of the twenty-fifth volume of the Catalogue of the 
Birds in the British Museum which deals with this group. 
But to the public in general he will always be best known 
as the Editor, in 1884-85, of the last two volumes of the 
fourth edition of YarrelFs British Birds , commenced by 
Prof. Newton, and as the author of that most excellent 
work, An Illustrated Manual of British Birds , issued in 1889, 
and as a second edition in 1899, wherein was included not 
only the whole essence of Yarrell, but the original woodcut 
illustrations. The merit of this work lies in its conciseness 
and lucidity, and it still stands, after twenty years, as the 
best and most reliable text-book on British birds. Saunders 
himself published one part of Addenda to it in British Birds , 
and this, with continuations by Messrs. Ticehurst and 
Witherby in the same magazine, should be added to the 
Manual to bring it up to date. 
* He died at his London residence, 7 Radnor Place, W., 
on October 20, 1907, after a long illness. 
1866. A Visit- to Walney, the Lakes and Fame Islands. ( Zoologist , ser. 2, 
i. pp. 178-88.) 
1867. A Bird-nesting Trip to the North of Ireland. (Op. cit. ser. 2, ii. 
pp. 609-24.) 
