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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[STEVENSON 
[1872]. Descriptive account of British Bird Collection. [In A Popular 
Guide to the Norfolk and Norwich Museum.] 16mo. London : 
N.D. 
1873-85. Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. (Trans. Norf. and Norw. 
Soc. i., 1872-3 ; pp. 114-20 ; t.c., 1873-4 ; pp. 81-5 ; ii. pp. 64-70; 
206-17; 478-87; 594-601 ; iii. pp. 120-39; 392-414 ; 542-60; 771-88 ; 
iv. pp. 125-39.) 
1880. On abundance of Pomatorhine and Smaller Skuas on Norfolk 
Coast in Oct. and Nov. 1879. (Op. cit. iii. pp. 99-119.) 
1881. On the plumage of the Waxwing; from examination of a large 
series killed m the winter of 1866-67. (Op. cit. iii. pp. 326-44.) 
1882. On occurrence of Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabinii) in Norfolk. (Op. cit. 
iii. pp. 373-8.) 
On occurrence of Dusky Petrel in Norfolk in 1858. (Op. cit. iii. 
pp. 467-73.) 
Ornithological Notes from Lowestoft; Suffolk. (Zoologist, pp. 
332-5.) 
1888. On the vocal and other sounds emitted by the Common Snipe. 
(Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. iv. pp. 486-96.) 
Stevenson (Matthew), fl. 1654-85 
Of the life of Stevenson, a minor poet, little is known 
except that he was probably of Yorkshire origin, that he 
lived for the greater part of his life in Norfolk, and that he 
was occasionally seen in London “ moving in a circle of minor 
wits of royalist tendencies, who haunted the law courts in 
the years following the Eestoration ” ( vide Diet. Nat. Biogr.). 
Donaldson (Agricul. Biogr. p. 29) remarks upon the singu- 
larity of his Twelve Moneths, which is evidently based less 
upon research than upon oral tradition and current folklore. 
A quaint woodcut illustrates the occupations of each month. 
1661. The | Twelve Moneths | or, | A pleasant and profitable discourse 
of every | action, whether of Labour or Recreation, | proper to 
each particular Moneth, bran- | ched into Directions relating to 
Hus- | bandry . . . [&c. 4 lines.] | As also | Of Recreations, as 
Hunting, Hawking, Pish- | ing, Fowling, Coursing, Cockfighting. 
| [&c. 5 lines.] | By M. Stevenson. | [Quot. 1 line] | London : 
Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner, and are to be sold | at his 
Shop, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange, 1661. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, pp. iv un. +pp. 60, with 12 copper- 
plate engravings, all paged in except that for October. There are 
brief references to the birds to be met with in each month, as 
well as to Hawking, etc. 
