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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Naturalist's Library the volumes on the Pigeons (1835) 
and the Parrots (1835). Selby was for some time one 
of the editors of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany , and 
contributed many papers to various other journals and 
scientific transactions, of which the principal ones are listed 
below. 
He died at Twizell, March 27, 1867, and was buried at 
Bamburgh. His collection appears to have been totally 
dispersed, the last of his specimens of birds going to Callaley 
Castle, according to Mr. Bolam, in 1885, after the sale of his 
estates. For a Mem.oir by Dr. R. C. Embleton, see Hist, 
of Berwickshire Nat. Club , vol. v. pp. 336-8, also Jenyns’s 
Reminiscences of John Selby, etc., 8vo, Bath, 1885. 
[1821]— 34. Plates | to Selby’s Illustrations | of | British Ornithology | 
[vignette] Designed and Engraved by W. H. Lizars. | Edinburgh ; 
| Published By Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Bobinson 
& Co. | London, n.d. 
Vol. I., engraved title-page as above. 
Plates | to | Selby’s Illustrations | of | British Ornithology. | 
Water Birds. | Vol. II. | [vignette] mdcccxxxiv. | Printed for 
the Proprietor, and Published by W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh ; | 
Longman, Bees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, London : | and 
W. Curry, Junr. & Co., Dublin. 
Yol. II., engraved title as above. 
The engraved titles are plain. 
Collation — 2 vols. imp. folio. Vol. I., engraved title-page 
and pi. 85+ pi. 4 (uncoloured details) =89. Vol. II., engraved 
title-page and pi. 129 ; 218 plates in all. 
Note . — The above was issued with coloured and also uncoloured 
plates. Copies are said to exist with 221 plates. 1 
The work appeared in 19 parts with a pink label and the 
legend : 
No. 1. | Illustrations | of | British Ornithology; | Series First | 
Land Birds. | By P. J. Selby, Esq r . | Published by A. Constable 
& Co. Edinburgh | and Hurst Bobinson & Co. Cheapside London. 
Water-mark on paper of plates, 1818. 
Idem. A reissue of the above, n.d. Similar title-pages but 
water-mark 1826 on paper of plates. 
Idem. Another issue, n.d. 
Plates | to | Selby’s Illustrations | of | British Ornithology 
[vignette] Designed and Engraved by W. H. Lizars. | Edinburgh ; 
1 The collations of this work differ considerably. It will be noticed from the dates 
of the water-marks given that there were more than one issue of each edition. 
