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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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| Published by W. H. Lizars, | and Longman, Rees, Orme, 
Brown & Green | London. 
Water-mark on paper of plates, 1826. 
Idem. Another issue, 1841 : 
Plates | to | Selby’s Illustrations | of | British Ornithology | 
Land Birds. | Vol. I. [Water Birds. | Vol. II.] [vignette] 
Designed & Engraved by W. H. Lizars. | London. | Henry G. 
Bohn, York Street Covent Garden. | mdcccxli. 
The engraved titles are coloured. 
Commonly known as Bohn’s reprint. 
Note. — With the first issue, 1821-34, appeared an explanatory 
letter-press “ of a temporary nature ” in 19 4to numbers, con- 
taining 12 to 18 pages per number. This is very rare. 
In 1825 the first volume of the 8vo letter-press appeared with 
the following title : 
1825. Illustrations | of | British Ornithology. | By | Prideaux John Selby, 
Esq. | Member of the Wernerian Natural History Society. | Part 
First. | Land Birds. | Edinburgh : | Printed for Archibald Con- 
stable & Co. Edinburgh ; | and Hurst, Robinson, & Co. London. | 
1825. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxxvi+pp. 335. 
In 1833 appeared the 2 vols. : 
Illustrations | of | British Ornithology. | By | Prideaux John 
Selby, Esq. | Fellow of the Royal Society of Edingburgh ; Fellow 
of the | Linnean Society ; and Member of the Wernerian | 
Natural History Society, &c. | Vol. I. [Vol. II.] | Land Birds. 
[Water Birds]. | Edinburgh : | printed for the proprietor, a^id 
published by | W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh ; | Longman, Rees, 
Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, | London ; and W. Curry 
Jun. & Co. Dublin. | mdcccxxxiii. 
Collation — 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I. pp. xxxviii + 1 p. short title 
+ pp. 450. Vol. II. pp. xii + pp. 538. 
Note. — It will be noticed that there were two issues of Vol. I., 
viz. that of 1825 and that of 1833. This arose from the fact 
that Selby “ had yielded to the pressure of the ‘ Quinarian ’ 
doctrines then in vogue,” and had therefore remodelled (and 
improved) the original issue of Vol. L- 
These two vols. contain the text, explanatory of the two vols. 
Imp. Folio of Plates, 1821-34. 
1823. Some observations on the Falco chrysaetos and F. fulvus of authors, 
proving the identity of the two supposed species. (Mem. Wer- 
nerian N.H. Soc. iv. pt. 2, pp. 428-33.) 
1826. Catalogue of the various birds which at present inhabit or resort 
to the Farn Islands, with Observations on their habits, etc. 
(Zool. Jour. ii. pp. 454-65.) 
Observations on the migrations, or occasional migrations, of the 
