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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[STANLEY 
Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown state (Vert. Fauna of 
Orkney Is., 1891, p. xix) : 44 in 1883 Mr. Robert F. Spence 
began a history of 4 The Birds of Orkney. 5 Of this work 
280 pages were printed, which only carries us down to the 
middle of the article on the Book. Mr. Spence very kindly 
allowed us to see the rest of the MSS. and to use it as we 
liked, as it is very unlikely that the work will ever be finished.” 
The only copy we have seen is that in the late Prof. Newton’s 
library, which bears the following note by Buckley on the 
fly-leaf : 44 This is all that was ever published of this work. 
The rest of the MS. passed through my hands and was all on 
the same lines as this. Anything of worth is incorporated 
in the Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands published by 
Douglas.” 
[1883.] The Birds of Orkney, [s. loc. et d .] 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. 1-280, unfinished and without title. 
(Copy in Newton Library, Cambridge.) 
Spratt (Mrs. G.) 
We know nothing of this authoress, who informs us in 
her introduction that she also wrote some small anonymous 
works. 
*1837. The | Language of Birds | comprising | Poetic and Prose Illustra- 
tions | of the | most Favourite Cage Birds. | With twelve highly- 
coloured plates. | By Mrs. G. Spratt. | [Quotation, 5 lines] London 
| Saunders and Otlev, Conduit Street. | mdcccxxxvii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. vii + pp. 342. 
Of the twelve plates nine are descriptive of British birds. 
Idem. Another edit. London : 1851. 
Stanley (Edward), 1779-1849 
Bishop Stanley, D.D., F.R.S., was born in London, June 
1, 1779, and was the second son of Sir John Thomas Stanley, 
sixth baronet, of Alderley Park, Cheshire, a locality in which 
the subject of our notice made his early observations, many 
of which are incorporated in his Familiar History of Birds, 
which includes both British and foreign birds. 
He entered St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1798, was 
