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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[SEEBOHM 
1881) was a very valuable treatise, now superseded, however, 
by tbe more pretentious Monograph of the Turdidce, with 
145 coloured plates by Keulemans, the text of which was 
edited and in part written by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, the whole 
being completed some seven years after Seebohm’s death. 
In the Ibis and Zoologist for 1886 he published several im- 
portant reviews of various genera of the Charadriidce, while 
in 1888 he issued the Geographical Distribution of the Chara- 
driidce, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies, 
with 21 coloured plates by Keulemans, 4to, which will always 
be a monument of Seebohm’s work. In the case of both 
this work and the History of British Birds, it should be 
mentioned that Mr. Seebohm had a number of copies of the 
text printed and bound without plates, which he gave away 
as presentation copies. In the case of the British Birds a 
second issue of the plates was printed in Paris by Lemercier 
et Cie. in 1896 to complete the remaining stock of text 
copies of the work, which copies are in consequence of less 
value than the original London printed plates. The reprinted 
plates of the Charadriidce in like manner are inferior to those 
in the first issue. 
In the volume of Coloured Figures of Eggs of British Birds, 
issued in 1896 under the editorship of Dr. Sharpe (who 
wrote, we believe, practically the whole of the text), the plates 
are totally distinct from those in the History of British Birds, 
and the work originated in Seebohm, a Sheffield man, per- 
mitting Pawson and Brailsford, a firm of lithographers in 
that town, to try their skill with a volume of plates which 
may, or may not, have been intended to complete the text 
copies of the above-mentioned History . 
Two of Seebohm’s most charming works, however, are 
his Siberia in Europe (1880), a record of a visit, in company 
with Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, to the Valley of the Petchora, 
and Siberia in Asia (1882), a record of a visit to the Valley 
of the Yenesei, both of which were reprinted in 1901 in one 
volume under the title of The Birds of Siberia. These works 
contain valuable information on birds on the British list. 
