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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[WALCOTT 
Wake (Robert), ca. 1839 
The author of this local Suffolk book, a surgeon, has dealt 
with the birds at some length in a section extending to about 
13 pp. He appears to have published nothing else relative 
to our subject. 
1839. Southwold, | and its vicinity, | ancient and modern. | By | Robert 
Wake, | M.R.C.S.L. | [device] | Yarmouth : | Printed and pub- 
lished by F. Skill, | [etc. 2 lines] j 1839. 
Collation — 1 vol. large post 8vo, pp. xviii + pp. 420, fold. pi. 
Birds at pp. 228-40. 
Walcott (John), ob. 1831 
John Walcott was, according to a writer in Notes and 
Queries (series viii. vol. ix. p. 383), the son of John Walcott 
who died at Bath, December 11, 1766. He was an industrious 
naturalist, and is variously described as of the “ Polygon 
near Southampton,” of Higham. Court, Gloucestershire, and 
of Bathwick, Somersetshire. He died, however, in Great 
Pulteney Street, Bath, February 5, 1831. His best known 
works are Flora Britannica Indigena , with Descriptions taken 
from Linnaeus (1778) ; and Descriptions and Figures of Petri- 
factions . . . near Bath (177 9). William Yarrell in the preface 
(p. vii) to his History of British Fishes , dated 1836, expresses 
his “ obligations to W. Walcott, Esq., of Bristol, for the use 
of a valuable MS. with a collection of more than one hundred 
drawings of British fishes, executed by his father, the author 
of the Synopsis of British Birds and other works on natural 
history, during his residence at Teignmouth.” He also 
published 2 Nos. in 4to of Figures and Descriptions and 
History of Exotic Animals comprised under the classes Am- 
phibia and Pisces of Linnaeus (London, 1788). His Synopsis 
is more curious and scarce than of intrinsic merit. He states 
in his preface that “ The following work contains the descrip- 
tion and manners of nearly all our British birds, with a figure 
of each, copied by the Author from nature. He procured two 
hundred of them by his own industry ; the rest were drawn 
from others in a high state of preservation, in the Museums 
