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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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himself that it will be productive of great public utility 
although the subject is but low and humble.” Among his 
“ winged vermin ” he enumerates and describes the habits 
of thirteen varieties of hawks and owls, and also the Nightjar, 
Raven, Carrion Crow, and Magpie. The inclusion of the 
Nightjar is strange, as he specifically states it to be a “ very 
harmless bird.” In the third edition “ the Public are re- 
quested to observe ” that as “ the two preceding editions of 
this Book were sold at the extravagant price of £l : Is. . . . 
copies have been of late particularly scarce and valuable.” 
1768. The | Universal Directory | for | Taking Alive and Destroying | 
Eats, | and all other Kinds of | Four-footed and Winged | Vermin, 
| In a method hitherto unattempted : | Calculated for the Use of 
the Gentleman, | the Farmer, and the Warrener. | By Robert 
Smith, | Ratcatcher to the Princess Amelia. | London. | Printed 
for the Author. | mdcclxviii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. i-iv + pp. iii-vii+pp. 1-218, with 
6 pi. 
Birds at pp. 173-218, 
Idem. 3rd edit. London*: 1786. (Price 3s. 6d.) 
Smith (William Anderson), not. 1842 
This author published also several works on miscellaneous 
subjects, including Temperate Chile (1899), etc. Both the 
books undernoted pay some considerable attention to Scottish 
birds, the one on Loch Creran being a series of natural history 
sketches. 
1875. Lewsiana, or Life in the Outer Hebrides. London : 1875. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. x+pp. 297. 
Birds at pp. 215-32. 
1887. Loch Creran : Notes from the West Highlands. Paisley and 
London : 1887. 
Collation- — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. vi un. -t-pp. 322. 
Numerous references to birds. 
Son of the Marshes. See Jordan (D.) 
Southwell (Thomas), 1831-1909 
This well-known Norfolk ornithologist was born at King’s 
Lynn, June 15, 1831, one of ten children, and he spent nearly 
