willughby] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 651 
travellers, also the north of England, Scotland, and Cornwall. 
Willughby had accumulated a great mass of materials on 
Zoology, and on his marriage in 1668, to the daughter of Sir 
Henry Bernard, he settled down at his family seat, Middleton 
Hall, Warwickshire, to prepare this material for publication. 
His work, however, was cut short in his thirty- seventh year 
by an attack of illness, to which he succumbed on the 3rd of 
July 1672, leaving his friend Ray to edit and publish his 
great work, the Ornithology , which was issued at the expense 
of Willughby’s widow. The Historia Piscium , also edited 
by Ray (1686) was, however, printed at the expense of the 
Royal Society. 
A memorial tablet was placed in Southwell Cathedral in 
1912 through the exertions of Mr. J. Whitaker of Rainworth. 
1676. Francisci Willughbeii, | De Middleton in agro Warwicensi, Armigeri, 
| E Regia Societate, | Ornithologise | Libri Tres : | In quibus | 
Aves | Omnes hactenus cognitse, | in Methodum | Naturis | Suis 
convenientem redactse, | accurate describuntur : | Descriptiones 
| Iconibus Elegantissimis | et | Vivarum Avium Simillimis, | iEri 
incisis illustrantur. | Totum Opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit 
| Joannes Raius. | Londini : | Impensis Joannis Martyn, Regiae 
Societatis Typography ad insigne Campanse | in Coemeterio D. 
Pauli, cic ci clxxvi. 
Collation — 1 vol. folio, pp. 10 un. +pp. 307 + pp. 6 un. + 
lxxvii pi. 
Catalogus Avium Britannicarum, pp. 17-23. 
Idem. Large Paper copy, printed on thick and fine paper, size 
of a cut copy 15§ x 9f . Title reset and printed in red and black, 
with addition after Joannes Raius of the words . . . Sumptus 
in Chalcographos fecit | Illustriss. D. Emma Willughby, Vidua.” | 
[cut of arms] | [Imprint and date as above.] 
Collation as above — 1 vol. folio. 
(A copy of this Large Paper issue with the plates coloured by 
hand is in W.P.L.). 
A copy examined on ordinary paper (13J in. x 9 in.) with 
above “ widow’s title,” has 78 plates, instead of the 77 found in 
the ordinary Latin impressions. 
1678. The | Ornithology | of | Francis Willughby | of | Middleton in the 
County of Warwick Esq ; | Fellow of the Royal Society. | In 
Three Books. | Wherein All the | Birds | Hitherto known, | Being 
reduced into a Method sutable to their Natures, | are accur- 
ately described. | The Descriptions illustrated by most Elegant 
Figures, nearly resembling | the live Birds, Engraven in lxxviii 
