BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
While the text is generally recorded as being identical, “ a stereo ” in the reissues, 
comparison of the Parrot volume, e.g., shows that the plates have a locality inscribed on 
them, and the Memoir of Bewick is enlarged by twenty-one pages, giving a different 
number to all the pages of the text proper. Again, the titles of some of the volumes 
are altered, as Vol. V. (3) of the original issue, as No. 14 of the second issue, is called 
Gallinaceous Birds. There is no date on the title-pages of the reissue, so that it may 
be recognised in whatever binding it may be. 
The original series was published by Lizars, and the reissue is also by Lizars, but a couple 
of years later, 1848, a reissue of the second set in similar bindings was made by H. G. Bohn. 
Engelmann records a new edition : “ The people's edition . . with 10 to 12 
col. pis., and 130-150 pp. letterpress will be published in 1845 @ Is. 4d. per vol.” 
I think this project must have fallen through in favour of the reissue above noted as 
I have never seen a volume, though all the others are very common. 
An attempt was made to translate the series into German, and failed after ten volumes 
had been issued as follows :— 
L 
Omithologie, Vol. I. 
Gallinaceous Birds 
Aristotle 
1836 
n. 
Saugethiere, Vol. I. 
Cats, etc. 
Cuvier 
1836 
in. 
Omithologie, Vol. II. 
Game Birds 
Raffles 
1836 
IV. 
Wiederkauerde Thiere, Vol. I. 
Deer, etc. 
Camper 
Linne 
1837 
V. 
Omithologie, Vol. III. 
Humming Birds (I.) 
1837 
VI. 
Saugethiere, Vol. III. 
Monkeys 
Buffon 
1837 
vn. 
Omithologie, Vol. IV. 
Pigeons 
Haller 
1839 
VIII. 
Entomologie, Vol. I. 
Butterflies, I. 
Merian 
1840 
IX. 
Entomologie, Vol. II. 
„ II. 
Ochsenheimer 
1841 
X. 
Omithologie, Vol. V. 
Parrots 
Le Vaillant 
1842 
The first six were translated by Aug. Diezmann, the last four by Friedr. Treitscke, 
and they were published at Pesth. As regards the birds, while the text is the same, 
the plates are very variable in colouring, some agreeing exactly, others not at all, red 
being placed instead of blue, etc. It will be noted also that the Memoirs have been 
altered, in the Pigeon volume Pliny being replaced by Haller, and in the Parrot volume 
Bewick giving way to the Le Vaillant, who appeared with the second volume of the 
Birds of W. Africa. Ochsenheimer with Vol. IX., the second of Entomology, 
appears to be an entire innovation. There is apparently no novelty in connection 
with the text proper. 
Memoirs of workers well known also in Ornithology appear in the other volumes of 
the Library as Gesner (Horses), Ray (Beetles), AJdrovandus (British Quadrupeds), 
Sloane (Elephants), Buffon (Monkeys), Pallas (Wild Dogs), Banks (Fishes (Perch) ), 
Azara (Bogs), Cuvier (Cats), Peron (Marine Amphibians), etc., etc. 
Lear painted the Pigeons and Parrots, and the background in these paintings are 
exquisite, while the birds are, of course, excellent. Swainson made his own drawings 
for his volumes. 
Jardine wrote all the bird volumes except those written by Selby and Swainson, 
and did not introduce any new names. Both these other writers however did, Selby 
proposing the genus name Phaps, and Swainson the genus name Leucocerca and the 
species Myiagra latirostris, the latter from a specimen in the Paris Museum, not the 
same as that to which Gould later gave the same name. 
There was a new series based on this published in 1893—97 which does not concern 
us directly, but is of use for references as the volumes were well written. 
Naturalist’s Miscellany .—This very important work was issued in parts consisting of 3 or 
4plates monthly, and these were bound up into volumes, and it is now very difficult 
to trace the exact date of the parts. Sherborn in the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 
Vol. XV., pp. 375-376, April 1895, furnished the first account in which the first part 
was stated to be published on August 1st, 1789, and was succeeded by 286 parts which 
was to the date of Shaw’s death, when 4 plates were ready but no text to them, the 
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