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Nineteenth–Century Ornithology: Volume 1: Ornithology at Home book cover

1st Edition

Nineteenth–Century Ornithology Volume 1: Ornithology at Home

Edited By Henry A. McGhie Copyright 2026
414 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Volume 1, Ornithology at Home, includes readings from the prespective of ornithology in Britain. Readings are selected from key British ornithologists, including Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick and John Gould. John James Audubon appears in this volume, as his lasting fame and his monumental books were secured in Britain (rather than in America). Readings in this volume explore the establishment of... Read more

Volume I: Ornithology at Home

Series Editor Introduction

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Volume I introduction

                                                                                             

1. 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. MacGillivray], ‘Introductory Address’, ‘The Prairie’, ‘Esquimaux Curlew’, ‘Thomas Bewick’, and ‘Volume 5 Introduction’, in Ornithological Biography (Edinburgh: Adam Black/Adam and Charles Black, 1831–9), vol. 1, pp. v-xx, 81-4, vol. 3, pp. 69-72, 300-4, vol. 5, pp. v-xxv.

 

6. J. Gould, The Birds of Great Britain¸5 vols. (London: Published by the author, 1863–73), vol. 1. pp. xcii-xciv, vol. 3 plates 67, 68, vol. 5, plate 46.

 

7. The Zoologist (1843), vol. 1, pp. v-xvi.

 

8. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London (1830), pp. 1–4.

 

9. On the founding of the British Ornithologists’ Union and some early papers, T. C. Eyton, ‘On the different methods of preparing natural skeletons of birds’, Ibis 1859, 1(1), pp. iii-v, 55-7, ‘Note on the breeding and mode of capture of the Short-tailed Petrel or Mutton-bird (Puffinus obscurus) in the islands of Bass’s Straits. From the Journal of Robert Elwes’, Ibis 1(4), pp. 397-9, A. R. 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, 223-6

 

10. 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-x

 

15. 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.

 

Bibliography

 

Index

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Henry McGhie is a consultant for museums, the heritage sector. His publications include Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business (2017)

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