18 Dr. E. Hopkinson—Eighteenth Century Cage-bird Books


history and Management of Canarybirds. Post 8vo. Copper plates.

Edinburgh. 1766.


-A History of Singing Birds, containing their Habits and


Customs, Manners of constructing their Nests, Times of Incubation,

Songs, Bearing of them in cages, Food, etc. Fcap 8vo. Copper plates.

Edinburgh. N.D. (? 1766).


? = the above or an earlier form of the next.


Anon. The History of Singing Birds, containing an exact

description of their Habits and Customs and their manner of con¬

structing their Nests, . . . Incubation, . . . Songs, . . . Food, . . .

Disorders, . . . with the mode of treatment. Including the history and

management of Canary Birds, translated from the French of the Count

de Buffon. . . . 12mo (pp. 192). Copper plates. Silvester Doig,

Edinburgh. 1791.


Another piracy from Albin, teste Sotheran.


Arnault de Nohleville et Salerne. L’ZEdonologie ou traite

du Bossignol franc ou chanteur, contenant le maniere de le prendre,

. . . de le nourrir en cage. . . . Paris. 1774.


Barrington (the Hon. Baines). Experiments and Observations

on the Singing of Birds. (A small portion refers to cage-birds.)

1773.


Reprinted in Pennant’s British Zoology. 1776. (teste Mullens

and Swann.)


- Miscellanies. London. 1781. Contains the above and an


“ Essay on the Language of Birds ”.


Beehstein (Johann Matthaeus). Gruendliche Anwiesung alle

Arten von Stubenvogel zu fangen. 8vo, 48 pis. Nuernberg und

Altdorf. 1728.


[A new edition of a book which had appeared anonymously in 1792

and which went through several editions before Beehstein’s time ; he did

not know the name of the author, and that has only recently been discovered

by Dr. Stresemann to be Baron . . . von Pernau ( q.v .).


See a Life of Beehstein by Hugo Hildebrandt which appeared in the

Ibis, 1933, p. 226.


- Naturgesichte der Stubenvogel. This was commenced


in 1786, but not completed till well on in the next century. Hanover.



