518 
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[SELBY 
1891. Notes on Irish Ornithology. (Ibis, pp. 397-411.) 
On Some Recent Additions to the List of Irish Birds. ( T.c . 
pp. 585-7.) 
A Comparative List of the Birds of Heligoland and those of the 
British Islands. (Zoologist, pp. 261-8.) 
1893. On the occurrence of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Norfolk. (Ibis, 
pp. 181-5, pi. v.) 
On the Geographical Distribution of British Birds. London : 
1893. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. 39, appdx. Reissued in 1896 
with the second issue of the History of British Birds. 
1895. On Classification of British Birds. London : 1895. 
Roy. 8vo pamphlet. Reissued in 1896 with the second issue 
of the History of British Birds. 
1896. Coloured Figures of Eggs of British Birds, with descriptive notices, 
edited (after the author’s death) with a Memoir by Dr. R. 
Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., etc., portrait and 60 plates coloured 
after nature. Sheffield : 1896. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. xxiv + pp. 304, 60 coloured 
plates. (Pub. £3 : 3s.) 
Note. — The plates to the History of British Birds have been twice 
issued for sale as a separate volume, but have no connection 
with this work. 
Selby (Prideaux John), 1788-1867 
This notable Northumbrian ornithologist was born at 
Alnwick, July 23, 1788, and succeeded to the family estate 
of Twizell in 1804. In 1810 he married a daughter of 
Bertram Mitford, of Mitford Castle, Northumberland. His 
greatest work will ever be deemed his celebrated Illustrations 
of British Ornithology (1821-34), our English equivalent of 
Audubon’s famous work, the two folio volumes of plates of 
which contain 21 8 magnificent life-size plates, nearly 200 being 
drawn by himself from specimens in his collection at Twizell, 
and the remainder by his brother-in-law, Admiral Mitford. A 
4to text to these plates was issued (in numbers), which is 
rare, it being commonly met with in its reprinted form in 
2 vols. 8vo. He also collaborated with Sir Wm. Jardine and 
others in the production of the Illustrations of Ornithology 
(4 vols. 4to, 1825-43), in which, however, very few British 
birds are to be found, and moreover contributed to Jardine’ s 
