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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[tunstall. 
known as author of A Manual of the Sea Anemones (1856). 
He also wrote the North Devon Scenery Book (1863), and 
several works of a theological nature. 
[1857.] [Edited by.] The North Devon Hand Book : being a Guide to 
the Topography and Archaeology, and an Introduction to the 
Natural History of the District. London & Ilfracombe : 
n.d. [1857.] 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, title + pp. 252, with front., map, and 
13 pi. 
Contains a list of birds at pp. 235-40. 
Idem. 2nd edit. n.d. [I860.] 1 vol. 12mo, pp. xi + pp. 299, 
with plates. Birds at pp. 271-6. 
Idem. 3rd edit. Not seen. 
Idem. 4th edit., 1 vol. 8vo. 1877. 
Tunstall (Marmaduke), 1743-90 
For our somewhat meagre information concerning this 
eminent ornithologist we are chiefly indebted to the “ Memoirs 
of Marmaduke Tunstall ” in George Fox’s Synopsis of the 
Newcastle Museum (1827). Tunstall was born in 1743 at 
Burton Constable in Yorkshire, and was the son of Cuthbert 
Constable, by his second marriage, with Ely, daughter of 
George Henneage of Hainton, Lincolnshire. In 1760 he 
succeeded to the family estates of Scargill, Hutton, Long 
Villers, and Wycliffe, and then reassumed the family name 
of Tunstall, which his father had changed for that of Constable 
on succeeding to the Burton Constable property in 1718. 
Being of the Catholic religion, he was educated at Douai in 
France, and on completing his studies resided for several 
years in Welbeck Street, London, where he formed not only 
an extensive museum, but also kept a considerable collection 
of living birds and animals that he might “ study their 
habits, manners, and oeconomy.” Here Peter Brown the 
naturalist had the advantage of his patronage and collection, 
and from specimens in it were drawn twelve of the figures of 
birds in Brown’s New Illustrations of Zoology (1776). In 1776, 
on his marriage with Miss Markham of Hoxly, Lincolnshire, 
the museum was by degrees removed to Wycliffe, a special 
room having been erected for its reception ; and it was then 
