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Collation — 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I. pp. viii +pp. 487, front, and pi. 
Vol. II. pp. 461, pi. and map. 
Numerous notices of birds throughout the two volumes. The 
most important being those on the birds of St. Kilda, Vol. II. 
pp. 72-81, and the birds of Caithness, Vol. II. pp. 179-80. 
Wilson (P.). See Munford (Rev. Geo.) 
WlNTRINGHAM (WlLLIAM HENRY), fiat. 1869 
This author, who resides at The Abbey, Grimsby, dedi- 
cates his Key to “ My friend John Cordeaux,” and tells us 
his classification “ is not intended to have any great scientific 
aim.” In his Birds of Wordsworth the references are grouped 
in natural orders, but there is no index. 
1890. British Birds. Key to the present classification, 1890. The 
Grimsby News Co., Limited, 83 and 85 Victoria Street, Grimsby. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, title + 30 pp. un. + 2 large folding tables. 
1892. The Birds of Wordsworth, poetically, mythologically, and compara- 
tively examined. London (Hutchinson) : 1892. 
Collation— 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii un. + pp. 426. 
Wise (H.). See London (George) 
Wise (John Richard de Capel), 1831-90 
This author, journalist, and incidentally ornithologist, 
was the eldest son of John Robert Wise ( 1792 - 1842 ), British 
Consul-General in Sweden, by his wife Jane, daughter of 
Richard Ellison of Sudbrooke, and was born in 1831 . He 
was educated at Grantham Grammar School and Lincoln 
College, Oxford, and on leaving the University, without taking 
a degree, he travelled abroad. He was deeply interested in 
natural history, especially ornithology. After some years of 
a wandering life, with occasional ventures into literature, he 
published Shakspere : his birthplace and its neighbourhood 
( 1861 ), which was followed by The New Forest in 1862 . He 
later became a writer in the Westminster Review and other 
journals, and acted as a war correspondent in 1870 . His last 
