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The Birds of Wiltshire , his other publications being a few 
unimportant articles and notes ; although the series of 
articles in the Wiltshire Magazine which formed the basis of 
The Birds of Wiltshire must be excepted. He also wrote 
The Attractions of the Nile and its Banks (1865). 
1853. Observations on the General Colour and the occasional variations 
in the plumage of Birds. ( Zoologist , xi. pp. 3969-80.) 
1857-69. The Ornithology of Wiltshire. Devizes : H. Bulb St. John 
Street, 1857-69. 
Collation— 1 vol. 8vo, title 1 1. + 10 separately paged articles, 
the last with list of birds. 
Originally appeared in the Wiltshire Archceol. and Nat. Hist. 
Magazine, Vols. i.-xii. Devizes : 1857-69, viz. Vol. i. pp. 44-5, 
105-15, 239-49 ; ii. pp. 162-72, 290-301 ; iii. 337-57 ; iv. 26-35, 
285-98 ; vi. 167-82 ; vii. 81-102 ; ix. 45-57, 211-22 ; xi. 
160-74 ; xii. 44-72, 152-85. 
1862. The Nightingale’s Nest. ( Op . cit. pp. 8029-32.) 
1868-73. On the Colouring of Cuckoo’s Eggs. (Zoologist, 1868, pp. 
1105-18, 1145-6.) Additional Bemarks. (Op. cit. 1873, pp. 
3433-9, 3473-9, 3511-17, 3723-7.) 
1877. The Swannery at Abbotsbury. (Op. cit. pp. 505-11.) 
1887. The Birds of Wiltshire. Comprising all the periodical and occa- 
sional visitants, as well as those which are indigenous to the 
county. London and Devizes : 1887. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxv+pp. 588. 
1896. The Cream-coloured Courser in Wilts. (Zoologist, pp. 434-5.) 
Smith (Amy), viv. 
We believe this lady to be the widow of the late Cecil 
Smith, author of The Birds of Somersetshire {vide infra), and 
that her little book is to be regarded to some extent as a 
supplement to that work. 
1912. The Barer Birds of Somerset. Taunton (Wessex Press) : 1912. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 84. 
Smith (Cecil), 1826-90 
The late Cecil Smith, B.A., of Lydiard House, Bishop’s 
Lydiard, near Taunton, was born at Bishop’s Lydiard in 1826, 
and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1849). He 
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