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• Volume 1: Ornithology at HomeSeries Editor IntroductionAcknowledgementsGeneral introductionVolume 1 introduction1. G. White, ‘Letters I, X and XIX-XXI’, in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton: with engravings, and an appendix (London: Printed by T. Bensley, for B. White and Son, 1789), pp. iii-v, 1-4, 27-30, 54-60.2. T. Bewick, ‘Introduction’, ‘Spoonbill’, White Stock’, and ‘Lesser Imber’, in History of British Birds, 2 vols. (Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick, 1797–1804), Vol 2, pp. iii–xvi, 24–7, 32–5, 187–8.3. W. Yarrell, ‘Egyptian Vulture’, ‘Great Black Woodpecker’, ‘Capercaillie’, and ‘Bustard’, in A History of British Birds, 3 vols. (London: Van Voorst, 1837–43), vol. 1, pp. 1–6 vol. 2, pp. 127–31, 289–303, 362–70, 375.4. H. Saunders, An Illustrated Manual of British Birds (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1889), pp. iv–x, 7–18.5. J. J. Audubon, [and W. 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Wallace, ‘Letter from Mr. Wallace concerning the geographical distribution of birds’, Ibis 1(4), pp. 449-54 and P. L. Sclater, ‘A short history of the British Ornithologists’ Union’, Ibis 1909 (Jubilee Supplement), ‘Alfred Newton’, ‘Sir Edward Newton’, ‘P. L. Sclater’, ‘H. B. Tristram’, ‘J. Kirk’, ‘A. R. Wallace’, ‘Howard Saunders’, pp. 19-22, 107-16, 117-20, 129-37, 153-6, 195-6, 213-6, 223-610. H. B. Tristram, ‘On the Ornithology of Northern Africa’, (excerpt), Ibis 1(4) (1859), pp. 429–33. 11. A. Newton, ‘On the Zoological Aspect of Game Laws’, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1868 (1869), pp. 108–9.12. H. E. Dresser, (ed.), Society for the Protection of Birds Educational Series Nos. 1–3. (Owls, Woodpeckers, Starling)13. T. M. Brewer, ‘A run through the museums of Europe’, Popular Science Monthly 11(25) (1877), pp. 472–81. 14. W. H. Flower, ‘Preface’, and R. B. Sharpe, ‘Introduction’ in R. B. Sharpe and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes (vol. 26 of the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum) (London: Trustees of the British Museum), pp. v–viii, ix-x15. P. L. Sclater, ‘Remarks on the divergencies between the ‘Rules for naming animals’ of the German Zoological Society and the Stricklandian Code of Nomenclature’, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2, 1896, pp. 306–22.16. ‘Preface’, Committee of the British Ornithologists’ Union, A List of British Birds (London: Van Voorst, 1883), pp. iii–vi.17. J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley, ‘Preface’ and ‘Introduction’, in A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887), pp. v-vii, 1-3.18. A. Newton, ‘Variation’, A Dictionary of Birds (London: A. and C. Black, 1893–96), pp. 1002-8.19. ‘Preface’, ‘Rules’, ‘List of Members’, ‘Bulletins No. 1 and No. 3’, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club (1892), pp. i-ii, ix-xiii.20. J. Wolf and D. G. Elliott, ‘The Owl’ and ‘The Crow’, The Life and Habits of Wild Animals (Alexander Macmillan, London, 1877), pp. 92–101.21. W. B. Tegetmeier, The Poultry Book (London: Routledge, 1873), pp. iii-iv, 1-16.22. W. B. Tegetmeier, Pheasants: their natural history and practical management, 2nd Ed. (London: Howard Cox, 1881), pp. 113–40.23. C. R. Darwin, ‘Domestic Pigeons’, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (London: John Murray, 1868), pp. 131-179.BibliographyIndexVolume 2: Ornithology AbroadSeries Editor IntroductionAcknowledgementsGeneral introductionVolume 1 introduction1. W. Swainson and J. Richardson, ‘Lists of specimens presented to the Zoological Society and the Museum of the University of Edinburgh’, and ‘Great Cinereous Owl’, Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the Northern parts of British America vol. 2 (Birds) (London: John Murray, 1831), pp. ix–xxi, 77-80.2. E. Sabine, ‘Birds’, in W. E. Parry (ed.), A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in the years 1819-20: containing an account of the subjects of natural history (London: John Murray, 1824), pp. 193–210.3. A. Wilson, C. L. Bonaparte and W. Jardine, American Ornithology vol. 1 (London: Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot, 1832), pp. xxxviii–xlix.4. Spencer F. Baird, Directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting specimens of natural history, prepared for the use of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1852), pp. 3–8, 15, 17–8.5. E. 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