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This page lists books by, about,or including illustrations by, George E. Lodge.

The books are ordered by publication date with the most recent at the top of the page.

Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist

George E. Lodge

George Edward Lodge Trust

2013

A new edition of Lodge's memoirs. This book includes the original work with improved quality plates. Also includes a biography of Lodge by Judith Magill and a gallery of additional artwork by Lodge.

George Edward Lodge 1860-1954: 150th Anniversary Exhibition

George Edward Lodge Trust

16 page catalogue for an exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of G.E. Lodge.

Bird Life and Bird Lore

Reginald Bosworth Smith

Cambridge Library Collection

Cambridge University Press

2013

Reginald Bosworth Smith "retired to a country house in Dorset and in 1905 published Bird Life and Bird Lore, based on a series of articles written in his retirement. Recording his own observations, some of many years before, and peppered with scholarly references to birds in literature, the essays cover individual birds such as the owl, the raven and the magpie, as well as bird-watching in Dorset and beyond. Imparting a love and respect for wildlife that remains inspiring, Bird Life and Bird Lore will be of great interest to the bird-lover and scholar of today."

An Artist's Perspective on Falconry

George Edward Lodge & Edward Blair Michell

George Edward Lodge Trust

2009

"Compiled to educate the non-falconer, but with the falconer in mind..."

A Hawk For The Bush

J.G. Mavrogordato

Western Sporting

2005

An expanded edition of a book first published in 1960.

A Falcon In The Field

J.G. Mavrogordato

Western Sporting

2005

An expanded edition of a book first published in 1966.

Life On The Wing

David Moran

Round Table Press

1996

A book about falconry subtitled "Adventures with birds of prey."

A Monograph Of The Pheasants, Vols I and II

William Beebe

1991

A single volume reprint of the first two volumes of the 1922 work.

A Monograph Of The Pheasants, Vols III and IV

William Beebe

1991

A single volume reprint of the last two volumes of the 1922 work.

George Lodge: Artist Naturalist

Editor: John Savory

1986

Sections include:

• Introductory essay - John Savory
• Lodge the Man, a Biography - David Bannerman
• Changing Methods of Book Illustration - Christine Jackson
• Lodge the Falconer and Other Memories - Phillip Glasier
• Lodge the Artist in Perspective - Donald Watson
• Some Observations on Painting Birds - George Lodge

George Edward Lodge Unpublished Bird Paintings

C.A. Fleming

Michael Joseph in Association With The National Museum Of New Zealand

1983

96 colour plates originally produced in 1913 for a proposed book about New Zealand birds. The book was not published at that time. This is the first publication of the plates.

A Season of Birds: A Norfolk Diary 1911

Jim Vincent

Illustrations: G.E. Lodge

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

1980

"At the turn of the century a rich Cambridge undergraduate, the Hon. Edwin Montagu, visited the Norfolk Broads and befriended a local boy, Jim Vincent. Their excursions together formed the basis of a friendship that lasted nearly twenty years, cutting across the barriers of social position and background. Later Montagu returned to Hickling for the shooting, and Vincent, now his keeper, taught Montagu the bird lore of the Broads. As his interest in the area developed, Montagu, by now a minister in Asquith's government, decided to preserve a bird diary kept by Jim Vincent in an unusual and delightful way. He commissioned the eminent Edwardian bird artist, G. E. Lodge, R.A., to illustrate it. The result was a meticulous and vivid study in words and pictures of one of the richest bird areas in Europe. Over 200 birds were recorded, as well as Vincent's account of his pioneer work in preserving rare species. Copiously illustrated in watercolour and pencil sketches, this remarkable find is now published for the first time. Vincent became an outstanding ornithologist and the creator of a remarkable bird sanctuary. His daily observations will be of particular interest to those concerned with the changing pattern of bird life during the last seventy years. With over 90 illustrations in colour, A Season of Birds will give lasting pleasure to both bird lovers and the general reader. It is introduced by Vincent's son, Edwin, named, out of respect, after his father's patron and friend."

Falconry And Hawking

Philip Glaiser

1979

Includes a number of plates by G.E. Lodge.

There have been a number of editions and reprints, all of which, I think, include the Lodge plates.

1998 edition: "This book covers all aspects of the sport of falconry and hawking with chapters on history, the birds themselves, training, housing, tools and equipment, equipment to be fitted to the bird, hoods and hooding, handling the new arrival, condition, manning and early training, flying free and getting fit, flying falcons out of the hood, flying short-wings, merlins, game hawking, moulting, imping and coping, lost hawks, hack and hacking back, dogs for hawking and making hoods, bells, bags and gloves. In addition there are two new chapters which replace and amplify the original text on health and disease and captive breeding, as well as a new section on the author's own experiences of Arab falconry practice. The author gives details of the birds most commonly used in the sport and the character and individual temperament of the birds are revealed in his own case histories. Every technique is explained with step-by-step instructions and illustrations."

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1998 edition

Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography

C.E. Jackson

1975

Includes chapters on: illustrators: William Swainson, Edward Lear, John Gould, Henry Leonard Meyer, Josef Wolf, Joseph Smit, John Gerrard Keulemans, Edward Neale, William Foster, Claude Wilmott Wyatt, Frederick William Frohawk, Henrik Grönvold, Archibald Thorburn, and George Edward Lodge.

A Falcon In The Field

J.G. Mavrogordato

Knightly Vernon Ltd

1966

"A Treatise on the Training and Flying of Falcons."

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 12

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1963

The twelvth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Stercorariidae, Alcidae, Rallidae, Tetraonidae and Phasianidae.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 11

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1962

The eleventh of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Glareolidae, Otdidae, Burhinidae, Gruidae and Laridae.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 10

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1961

The tenth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the remainder of the Scolopacidae and the Charadriidae, Recurvirostridae and Haematopodidae.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 9

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1961

The ninth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers part of the Scolopacidae.

A Hawk For The Bush

J.G. Mavrogordato

H.F. & G. Witherby

1960

A treatise on the training of the sparrow-hawks and other short-winged hawks.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 8

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1959

The eighth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Phalacrocoracidae, Diomedeidae, Sulidae, Podicipedidae, Fregatidae, Gaviidae, Procellariidae, Columbidae and Pteroclididae.

Pirates And Predators: The Piratical And Predatory Habits Of Birds

Colonel R. Meinertzhagen

1959

Includes illustrations by G.E. Lodge, C.F. Tunnicliffe and others.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 7

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1958

The seventh of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the remainder of the Anatidae.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 6

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1957

The sixth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Ciconiidae, Ardeidae, Phoenicopteridae and Anatidae (Part).

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 5

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1956

The fifth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Birds of Prey.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 4

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1955

The fourth of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Apodidae, Coraciidae, Caprimulgidae, Alcedinidae, Meropidae, Picidae, Upupidae, Cuculidae, Strigidae

Birds Of Arabia

Colonel R. Meinertzhagen

1954

Includes illustrations by G.E. Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry and Archibald Thorburn.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 3

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1954

The third of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Sylviidae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Cinclidae, Prunellidae, Hirundinidae

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 2

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1953

The second of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Alaudidae, Certhidae, Paridae, Vireonidae and others

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volume 1

David Bannerman and George Lodge

1953

The first of a 12 volume work published between 1953 and 1963.

This volume covers the Corvidae, Sturnidae, Oriolidae and Fringillidae

The Birds Of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration

Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul

1953

A 2 volume, 700+ page description of the status of birds in Scotland.

Each volume has a colour frontispiece by G.E. Lodge.

Mountain Birds

R.A.H. Coombes

King Penguin 67

1952

Territory In Bird Life

H. Eliot Howard

Illustrations: G. E. Lodge, H. Grönvold

Collins

1948

New edition of a book first published in 1920..

Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist

George E. Lodge

1946

"In this book of wide-ranging reminiscences, one is given an insight into the amount of study that each painting represents, for here are glimpses of some seventy years spent most lovingly in finding out."

There appear to be two different dust jacket designs for the first edition of this book.

A Waterhen's World

Eliot Howard

Cambridge University Press

1940

A 64 page study with many illustrations.

The Handbook Of British Birds

H.F. Witherby, Rev. F.C.R. Jourdain, Norman F. Ticehurst, and Bernard W. Tucker

H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd

1938-1941

Published in 5 volumes:

• Volume One: Crows to Flycatchers
• Volume Two: Warblers to Owls
• Volume Three: Hawks to Ducks
• Volume Four: Cormorants to Cranes
• Volume Five: Terns to Game-Birds

A number of editions of this five volume set were subsequently published. A concise edition The Popular Handbook Of British Birds was first published in 1952.

The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate

Sir Frederick Jackson

Illustrations: G. E. Lodge, H. Grönvold

Gurney & Jackson

1938

A three volume work based on notes and specimens put together by Jackson during 30 years in Eastern Africa. The notes were edited by W.L. Sclater.

British Sporting Birds

Editors: F.B. Kirkman and Horace G. Hutchinson

T.C. & E.C. Jack

Second edition

1936

The Birds Of Tropical West Africa

David A.Bannerman

Crown Agents For The Colonies

1931-1951

Published in 8 volumes with over 3,500 pages in total and 85 coloured plates.

Nicoll's Birds of Egypt

Colonel R. Meinertzhagen

Hugh Rees Ltd

1930

Two volume (700 pages) work with 31 colour plates, a colour frontispiece and a number of black and white photogravure plates and illustrations.

This work was started by Michael J. Nicoll, the Assistant Director of the Zoological Gardens of Giza, who died before he could complete the task. It was completed by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen.

British Birds

F.B. Kirkman and F.C.R. Jourdain

T C & E. C. Jack

1930

A concise edition of a multi-volume work published earlier in the century and including some of the same plates.

An Introduction To The Study Of Bird Behaviour

H. Eliot Howard

Cambridge University Press

1929

British Sporting Birds

Editors: F.B. Kirkman and Horace G. Hutchinson

Illustrations: G. E. Lodge, W. Austen, H. Grönvold and others

T.C. & E.C. Jack

First edition

1924

The illustrations in this book were originally published in The British Bird Book: A Complete Work On The Birds, Nests And Eggs Of Great Britain, F.B. Kirkman (editor), 1910.

Birds Through The Year

W. Beach Thomas and A. K. Collett

T.C. and E.C. Jack

1922

A Monograph Of The Pheasants

Volume IV

William Beebe

Photographs: William Beebe, D. Seth Smith

Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby and Co

1922

Published in four volumes.

Opening lines:

"GOLDEN PHEASANTS. The Golden and the Amherst Pheasants form a very natural genus, well isolated and demarcated from the others of this family. Linnaeus placed the species, with which he was acquainted, in the all-inclusive genus Phasianus, and although they have since rightly been separated, yet it is probable that in any linear classification, unnatural though it be, the two groups would come rather near together. These pheasants are small in comparison with the general run of their allies, and the sexes are very unlike in appearance. The two known species are closely related, and offer an excellent illustration of differentiation of pattern and colour, while structurally they are almost identical. This is not by any means invariably the case with other birds, and in many instances the apparently evanescent phenomenon of pigmentation outlasts and outvalues changes in actual structure and dimensions of feathers and other tissues. The presence or absence of feathering on the face is almost the only structural difference between these species. The males have elongated stiffened crests, and a very remarkable cape, specialized both as to musculature, structure and pigment. The tail-feathers are long and slightly arched, and the entire plumage shows a very high degree of specialization of colour. As is so often true, it is impossible to indicate which is the more ancestral type. That vanished form probably lay midway, the two descendants each developing specialization in different parts of the plumage. For instance, while the pure white of the Amherst's cape is far more of an extreme specialization than the orange of the Golden, yet the barbless extremities of the feathers of the latter are specializations of an extremely high order."

A Monograph Of The Pheasants

Volume III

William Beebe

Photographs: William Beebe, General A.C. Bailward, Dwight Huntington, Douglas Carruthers, Roy C. Andrews, W.R. Price

Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby and Co

1922

Published in four volumes.

Opening lines:

"KOKLASS PHEASANTS. The Koklass Pheasants are birds of medium size, and impossible to place with any certainty in a linear scheme of classification. They show traces of resemblance to several groups, and in spite of the moderate length of tail of the cocks, perhaps come as close to the genus Syrmaticus as I have defined it, as to any other. The syrinx is extremely close to that of Phasianus. The head in both sexes is entirely feathered. The male has an elongated crest, and, owing to the posterior portion being of a different colour and sprouting rather densely behind the ear-coverts, this portion has been considered to be more of the nature of ear-tufts than a crest. This posterior crest, however, on examination is seen to extend clear across the occiput. The crest in the female is shorter. Most of the body feathers are lanceolate. The tail consists of sixteen feathers, and is extremely graduated and wedge-shaped ; the middle pair are slightly the longest, and about twice as long as the outer pair. The tail-coverts simulate the tail itself in their colour, great length and gradation. The wings appear exceedingly long and pointed for a pheasant, owing to the fact that the primaries extend well beyond the secondaries when the wing is closed. The I St primary is considerably longer than the 2nd, which is about equal to the 8th ; the 4th is slightly the longest of the series. The tarsus is slightly longer than the middle toe and claw."

A Monograph Of The Pheasants

Volume II

William Beebe

Photographs: William Beebe

Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby and Co

1921

Published in four volumes.

Opening lines:

"KALEEGE PHEASANTS. This group is the largest component of the old genus Euplocamus, which formerly included Diardigallus, Lophura and Acomus. It seems to me to consist of two well-marked subgenera, Gennaeus and Hierophasis, the former with seven species, the latter with two. The species most familiar to those who keep pheasants or have opportunity of visiting collections is doubtless the Silver Pheasant, or Kaleege. One of the native names throughout the East is Kaleege or Kalij, and I have chosen to use this to characterize the pheasants of this genus. The least specialized type of Kaleege Pheasant is quite fowl-like, especially as to shape of body and carriage of the tail, the latter consisting of sixteen feathers, laterally compressed. These are strongly graduated in order from without inward, the central pair being the longest, and at least three times the length of the outer- most. There is great variation in the actual and relative length of the tail as a whole."

The Game-Birds Of India, Burma And Ceylon

E.C. Stuart Baker

Volume 2 illustrations: H. Grönvold

Bombay Natural History Society

1921

Volume 1: Ducks and their allies

Volume 2: Snipe, Bustards, Sand-grouse

Volume 3: Pheasants and bustard-quail

From the introduction: "In 1896 and the following years I wrote a series of articles on " Indian Ducks and their Allies " in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. In 1908 these articles were brought up to date, corrected and added to and appeared in book form, and so well was this volume received by the public, especially by sportsmen in India, that the edition was soon exhausted. The first edition appeared principally to meet a want which had long been felt by Small-Game shooters in India. that is to say a volume, reference to which would not only show how each duck could be identified, but would also give some idea of its habits and its scarcity or the reverse. Hume and Marshall's " Game Birds of India," which was published in 1879-80, grand book as it was and is, was felt to be behind the times, and much had since been recorded in various magazines and journals. But these records were scattered here, there and everywhere, and could not be consulted without the greatest difficulty, and it was, indeed, quite impossible for anyone who had not access to a very complete library to say what had, and what had not, been recorded. The first edition may be said not only to have served its purpose for the time being, but it served yet another and perhaps even more important one, for since its appearance a very large amount of information has been published to add to and correct its contents. This second edition incorporates these additions and corrections, and adds a considerable amount of matter not obtainable by me when writing in India. Several species have been added to the Indian list, and the geographical distribution of certain others has been more correctly given."

Territory In Bird Life

H. Eliot Howard

John Murray

1920

Subsequently republished at least twice.

Preface: "When studying the Warblers some twenty years ago, I became aware of the fact that each male isolates itself at the commencement of the breeding season and exercises dominion over a restricted area of ground. Further investigation, pursued with a view to ascertaining the relation of this particular mode of behaviour to the system of reproduction, led to my studying various species, not only those of close affinity, but those widely remote in the tree of avian life. The present work is the outcome of those investigations. In it I have endeavoured to interpret the prospective value of the behaviour, and to trace out the relationships in the organic and inorganic world which have determined its survival. Much is mere speculation; much with fuller knowledge may be found to be wrong. But I venture to hope that a nucleus will remain upon which a more complete territorial system may one day be established. I have to thank Mr G. E. Lodge and Mr H. Grönvold for the trouble they have taken in executing my wishes; I also want to record my indebtedness to the late E. W. Hopewell ; and to Professor Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S., I am beholden more than I can tell."

A Monograph Of The Pheasants

Volume I

William Beebe

Photographs: William Beebe

Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby and Co

1918

Published in four volumes.

From the introduction:

"The readers of such a monograph as this, are attracted either because of the pleasure they find in the beauty and grace of pheasants; from the interest of keeping them in captivity or on preserves; from the enthusiasm of a sportsman; or for reference in ornithological research. With this in mind, I have arranged the text so as to afford equal facility to all these varied interests. The natural history of the pheasants is the dominant theme; their wild life and the part they play in the scheme of nature in their Asiatic haunts. Hence I have striven to put this phase to the fore in the cases both of general and specific treatment. In the present volume I have written a brief synoptic account of pheasants as a whole, reserving the details of their care in captivity for a chapter in the final volume. In treating of the various species, a brief description of the adult birds precedes each account, the more intimate details of plumage, moult and variation, together with the synonomy being readily accessible at the end of each species monograph. In the preparation of any work of a monographic character, there comes to the writer, sooner or later, the feeling that his part in it is small indeed compared to the great company of others who have aided him. From the philosopher who passed away many decades ago but whose written word is still an inspiration, to the naked Dyak who proudly comes bearing a trapped bird to Tuan - a gift not for money, but as from one hunter to another - between these extremes there extends a long roll whose aid is given freely and for sheer love of the wilderness folk."

My Happy Hunting Grounds: With Notes on Sport and Natural History

Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy

Longmans, Green & Co

1914

From chapter one: "HAPPY hunting - grounds! How many delightful visions swim into the focus of my memory as I strive to recall the early scenes of my rambles with rod, gun, and rifle!"

Indian Pigeons and Doves

E.C. Stuart Baker

Witherby & Co

1913

From the preface: "My reasons for writing a volume upon our Indian Pigeons and Dovea are several, and I trust will be deemed sufficient by my readers. In the first place, there has as yet been no book published which deals with these most beautiful birds from the point of view of the Sportsman and Field-Naturalist as well as from that of the Scientific or Museum-Naturalist, and as this is a gap in the records of our Indian Avifauna which badly needs filling, I may be forgiven for trying to bridge it. Skins - as skins - are, without doubt, full of interest, and especially so, perhaps, when the person studying them is more or less intimate with the life-histories of the birds themselves ; but Pigeons are well worthy of study in ways other than by dry skins. To the Field-Naturalist they are birds full of interest; to the Aviculturist they are birds more charming and worthy of culture than has hitherto been generally admitted, and to the Sportsman they offer an object well worthy of attention, for he must have a quick eye, a sure hand, and considerable perseverance and patience before he has mastered their habits and is able to find them and, when found, bring them to bag.

The Gun at Home and Abroad

W.R. Ogilvie-Grant, J.G. Millais, Abel Chapman and others

1912-1915

Four volume work with many colout and black and white plates including artwork by G. Lodge, A. Thorburn, V. R. Balfour-Browne, and E. Caldwell.

The four volumes are:

• Volume 1: British Game Birds and Wildfowl
• Volume 2: British Deer and Ground Game
• Volume 3: The Big Game of Africa & Europe
• Volume 4: The Big Game of Asia and North America

The Story Of Hedgerow And Pond

R.B. Lodge

Colour illustrations from drawings by G.E. Lodge

Charles H. Kelly

1911

From the opening chapter:

"I wonder how often children say, and bigger people too, that there is 'nothing to see'? Perhaps they are told to go for a walk; and they say, 'Oh, that is such an ugly way; there is nothing to do, and nothing to see.' Then another direction is suggested, but they don't like that one any better; there also, they say, there is 'nothing to see.' But are there not the hedgerows, which give England its chief charm? In my opinion a common hedgerow is more beautiful and more full of interest than the best-kept garden. In fact, very often the more pretentious a garden is, the uglier it is. But the hedgerow is full of life and full of surprises for those who take the trouble to look for them, and the more you search the more there is to reward you for doing so, while the changing seasons provide a constant variety. If you were to start tomorrow to collect, or only to count and keep a list of, all the different plants and flowers which you could find in the hedges and growing on the banks and sides of the ditches wherever you happen to live, you would have work enough to keep you busy and interested at every season of the year for a very long time; and then if you added to that list other kinds of plants in different parts of the country - when at school, for instance, or on a visit, or at the seaside - and then took notice of all the many living creatures which live and find shelter and feed in our hedges, you would find that after all there is plenty to see in the hedges of the most ordinary part of the country, even close to London and other large towns."

The Birds Of Australia

Gregory M. Mathews

Witherby

1910-1927

Originally issued in 75 instalments. These were collected in 12 volumes which were published by Witherby between 1910 and 1927. A 13th volume collected supplementary instalments.

The British Bird Book: A Complete Work On The Birds, Nests And Eggs Of Great Britain

Editor: F.B. Kirkman

Illustrations: Winifred Austen, G. E. Collins, G. E. Lodge, H. Grönvold, A. W. Seaby

Photographs: F. E. Daniel, W. Farren, Riley Fortune, C. J. King, Seton P. Gordon, Charles Reid, E. L. Turner, the Editor and other

T.C. & E.C. Jack

1910

Published in four volumes, each of which was divided into three sections. Includes 200 colour plates and many black and white photographs.

From the preface:

One result of the growing interest taken during recent years in the study of ornithology is a considerable addition to our knowledge of the habits of British Birds. As no important comprehensive British work on the subject has appeared since the well-known Histories of Yarrell (revised and partly rewritten by Newton and Saunders, 1871-85) and Seebohm (1883-85), this knowledge remains inaccessible to those of us who are not prepared to search through a large and scattered literature, periodical and other. The sources of information available, moreover, before the above Histories appeared, have yet to be exhausted. Superior to both of them, in its account of a number of our species, is the monumental German work of the Naumanns, father and son, a new edition of which, revised by several prominent European ornithologists under the editorship of Dr. Carl Hennicke, was issued in 1897-1905 under the title of the Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas. But this edition, while giving very complete treatment to the description and distribution of most of the species, still leaves unrecorded many of the observations on their habits that have been made in our own and other countries. There is, therefore, place for a work that will bring together from every source, foreign and native, all the available information of any importance concerning the habits of British Birds. To do this, and to do it in a form interesting alike to the student of animal life and the general reader, is the chief object of the present undertaking.

The Indian Ducks And Their Allies

E.C. Stuart Baker

Bombay Natural History Society

1908

Introduction: "In 1896 the Honorary Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society induced me to write a series of articles on our Indian Chenomorphe, and consequently the articles which commenced in Volume xi. of the ' Journal ' of that Society made their appearance. Since the publication of Hume and Marshall's ' Game- Birds,' no attempt has been made to collect the various notes which have from time to time been printed in the 'Asian,' 'The Indian Field,' and other sporting papers, as well as in the B. N. H. S. Journal itself, and it has been a matter of great difficulty - often an impossibility - for either sportsman or ornithologist to know what has already been recorded and what has not. Hence many interesting facts and finds were never recorded at all, and these articles were originally written as much with a view to elicit more information as to place on record in a compact form what had already been recorded. That the raison d'etre was a good one was shown by the immediate receipt by the Editors of the 'Journal ' of numerous notes, giving both information that was new and correcting part that was old. The present book aims at being a corrected, up-to-date edition of these papers, and incorporates, as far as possible, the additional information received since they were brought out.

Extinct Birds

Walter Rothschild

Hutchinson & Co

1907

From the preface: "When I decided to read a paper before the Ornithological Congress of 1905 on Extinct and Vanishing Birds, I found it necessary to illustrate my paper by a number of drawings. These drawings roused special interest among those who listened to my lecture, and I was asked by many if I could not see my way to publish the lecture and drawings, in book form, as these plates were far too numerous for the proceedings of the Congress. After some hesitation I determined to do this, greatly owing to the persuasion of the late Dr. Paul Leverkuhn. The preparation of a book required considerably more research than the lecture, and therefore my readers will find, in the following pages, a totally different account to that in the lecture, as well as corrections and numerous additions. The lecture itself has been published in the " Proceedings of the IVth International Ornithological Congress." I wish to thank very heartily all those of my ornithological friends, who have kindly helped me with the loan of specimens or otherwise, and especially Dr. H. O. Forbes, Dr. Scharff, Professor Dr. K. Lampert, Dr. O. Finsch, Professor Dr. A. Koenig, Dr. Kerbert, Mr. Fleming, Dr. von Lorenz, and others."

The Aquatic Birds Of Great Britain And Ireland

Charles J. Patten

R.H. Porter

1907

From the preface:

The present volume deals with that large class of birds which, owing to the difficulty of approach occasioned by their aquatic habits, are in many ways not familiar. Field-work on the Irish coast, carried out during more than twenty years, has been supplemented more recently by investigations into the avifauna of many other districts of the British sea-board, thus enabling descriptions from personal observation to be given of many aspects of bird-life upon which much information is still wanting. To make the accounts given as complete as possible, those sources have been gleaned from which are believed to be trustworthy, and the valuable works and papers of Barrington, Buckley, Evans, Eagle Clarke, Gray, Gurney, Harting, Harvie-Brown, Newton, Salvin, Saunders, Seebohm, Stevenson, Ussher, and Warren, and of many other writers whose names appear in the text, have been laid under contribution. In the case of nearly every bird reference has been made to coloured figures in standard works. Descriptive Characters have been given under a separate paragraph; the headings Flight, Voice, Food, Nest, and Geographical Distribution, have been italicised to facilitate reference; while at the end of each- article Allied Species and Repre- sentative Forms are mentioned. The eggs of most species are described with the nests and surroundings; in articles dealing with very rare birds, where the habits are not described and only the occurrences recorded, the colour and number of eggs in the clutch are mentioned under Descriptive Characters. In all cases the size is given under Average Measurements.

Bird Life Glimpses

Edmund Selous

George Allen

1905

From the preface: "In the autumn of 1899 I came to live at Icklingham in Suffolk, and remained there, with occasional intervals of absence, for the next three years. During the greater part of that period I kept a day-to-day journal of field observation and reflection, and the following pages represent, for the most part, a portion of this. They are the work of one who professes nothing except to have used his eyes and ears to the best of his ability, and to give only, both in regard to fact and theory, the result of this method combined, of course, in the latter case, with such illustrations and fortifications as his reading may have allowed him to make use of, and without taking into account some passing reference or allusion. That my notes relate almost entirely to birds, is not because I am less interested in other animals, but because, with the exception of rabbits, there are, practically, no wild quadrupeds in England. I am quite aware that a list can be made out, but let any one sit for a morning or afternoon in a wood, field, marsh, swamp, or pond, and he will then understand what I mean. In fact, to be a field naturalist in England, is to be a field ornithologist, and more often than not I speak from experience a waster of one's time altogether. Unless you are prepared to be always unnaturally interested in the commonest matters, and not ashamed to pass as a genius by a never-ending barren allusion to them, be assured that you will often feel immensely dissatisfied with the way in which you have spent your day. Many a weary wandering, many an hour's waiting and waiting to see, and seeing nothing, will be yours if you aim at more than this and to read a book is fatal. But there is the per contra, and what that is I know very well. Of a few such per contras they were to me, and I can only hope that some may be so to the reader these Bird Life Glimpses are made up."

Bird Life and Bird Lore

R. Bosworth Smith

John Murray

1905

From the opening chapter: "There is no bird which, in view of its strange and solitary character, its weird and hollow cries, the grotesque solemnity of its appearance, the time honoured beliefs and superstitions which cluster round it, the large part it has played in poetry, ancient and modern, as well as in its sister arts, sculpture and painting, the marvellous adaptations of its structure to its mode of life, or its mode of life to its structure above all, perhaps I ought to add, in these days of agricultural depression and of armies of destroying rats and mice, its usefulness to the struggling cultivator of the soil possesses so peculiar a fascination, and ought to enjoy so jealous and zealous a protection, as the various species of the owl. I purpose in this chapter to touch lightly on some of these points of interest, in the hope that I may be able to impart to those who read it some fragments of the pleasure which a loving and lifelong observation of its subject has given to me, and may induce all who are connected directly or indirectly with the land, to befriend a bird which, in spite of many prejudices and some appearances to the contrary, is, in the truest sense, the friend of man."

The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

Rev. J. E. Kelsall & Philip W. Munn

Witherby & Company

1905

370 pages with colour plates and a fold-out map.

Wild Ducks: How To Rear And Shoot Them

Captain W. Coape Oates

Longmans, Green & Co

1905

Preface: "The main object of this book is to assist those who are anxious to rear wild ducks on economical lines. The Author is not without hope that the pages which it contains may even be of some use to old hands at the game."

The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland

J.G. Milais

Longmans Green & Co

1904-1906

Published in 3 volumes with many coloured and black and white plates.

Volume I (1904): 365 pages, plates by J.G. Millais, Archibald Thorburn, G.E. Lodge

Volume II (1905): 299 pages, plates by J.G. Millais, Archibald Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, H. Gronvold

Volume III (1906): 384 pages, plates by J.G. Millais, Archibald Thorburn, H. Gronvold, E.S. Hodgson, H.W.E. Davis

The Birds Of Tennyson

Watkin Watkins

R.H. Porter

1903

From the preface:

"This book, as the title implies, is intended to collect and explain the many references to birds made in the poems of the late Poet Laureate. Tennyson exhibits a knowledge of birds and their ways which is considerably greater than that displayed by the majority of British Poets, and which entitles him to take a place in this respect by the side of Chaucer, Wordsworth and Shakespeare. The idea of doing for Tennyson what has already been done for Shakespeare by Mr. Harting, was first suggested to me by my friend Mr. J. R. V. Marchant, and in the work thus undertaken I have for nearly three years found happy occupation during my leisure hours."

The Birds of Our Country

H.E. Stewart

Digby, Long & Co.

1897

"The object of this work is to give to the young collector a book which will not be beyond his means and which at the same time will contain an account of all the birds which he is likely to meet with in the British Isles. Some years ago scholastic work took me to a school on the borders of the New Forest in Hampshire. Natural history pursuits always occupied a prominent place among the recreations of the boys, and many an enjoyable day was spent rambling through the Forest in search of something which might be deemed worthy of a place in our collections, and possibly of a paragraph in a natural history paper to be read at one of our social evenings afterwards. At another time our excursion would be directed through Harewood to Andover, or over the Downs to Salisbury, or we would even run down to Southampton and, crossing the Solent, spend an enjoyable day roaming over part of the beautiful Isle of Wight in pursuit of our favourite hobby. Perhaps no county in England affords such scope to ornithologists as sunny Hampshire. On all these occasions our "takes" were carefully recorded, and anything of special interest made a note of, much of the present work being the outcome of these enjoyable summer excursions. In compiling the book, reference has been made to the writings of Seebohm, Hewitson, Bewick, Morris, Gilbert White, Atkinson, and others, to whose works I am indebted for assurance where my own information has been scanty. Throughout the work the classification of Seebohm has been followed, the common birds of each family being taken first; while the rare birds which have only visited our shores a few times have been mentioned at the end of each group, in order to make the book as complete as possible. The family Passeridae has been placed first, since it contains the greatest number of our better known birds. Wherever a bird is described, the description, unless otherwise stated, is that of the male.

British Birds

W.H. Hudson

Longmans, Green & Co.

1895

360 pages with 8 colour plates by A. Thorburn, 8 black and white plates by G.E. Lodge and over 100 smaller black and white drawings by Lodge.

From the authors introduction:

The plan followed in the descriptive portion of this work has, I trust, the merit of simplicity. A brief account is given of the appearance, language, and life-habits of all the species that reside permanently, or for a portion of each year, within the limits of the British Islands. The accidental stragglers, with the irregular or occasional visitors, have been included, but not described, in the work. To have omitted all mention of them would, perhaps, have been to carry the process of simplification too far. And as much may be said of the retention in this book of Latin, or science names. The mass of technical matter with which ornithological works are usually weighted is scarcely wanted in a book intended for the general reader, more especially for the young. Nor was there space sufficient to make the work at the same time a technical and a popular one : the briefest description that could possibly be given of the characters of genera would have occupied thirty to forty pages. The student must, in any case, go to the large standard works on the subject, especially to those of Yarrell (fourth edition), Seebohm, and Howard Saunders, which are repositories of all the most important facts relating to our bird life, gathered from the time of Willughby, the father of British ornithology, down to the present.

Notes On The Birds Of Northamptonshire And Neighbourhood

Lord Lilford

Porter

1895

"The following notes on birds observed by me in this district have no pretension to be a complete account of the avifauna of our own county, but are merely the result of my own observations and those of friends on whose accuracy I could rely. I have for a longtime entertained the idea of publishing a work on the ornithology of Northamptonshire, and, having made this idea known, have received many letters containing information more or less valuable from gentlemen, many of them personally unknown to me, residing in or near the county."

Bird Notes

Jane Mary Hayward

Illustrations: G. E. Lodge

Longman, Green & Co

1895

Opening of chapter one: "I live alone, surrounded by fields and trees; and the one large window of my quiet sitting-room looks across the top of a verandah on to a lawn and flower-beds full of roses, and full, therefore, of the aphides that birds love so well. An unfrequented road lies beyond that; then a row of fine lime-trees and elms, a meadow, and a river. A Devonshire stream it is, that comes and goes in its red, rocky bed, with storm and sunshine; sometimes thundering noisily over the weir; sometimes murmuring dreamily amongst the flints that are brought down by freshets from the hills above; and sometimes, here and there, hiding almost out of sight. A few days are sufficient to make the difference. The graceful yellow wagtail loves our river, and the splendid grey one is often to be seen there. Both in summer and winter they haunt and beautify it, and a delightful sight it is to see them chasing one another, or their shadows, from rock to rock, or playing with the water as they splash it all about them. The piebald one also abounds here, but it does not seem to care so much for the river; it seems to prefer the roads and fields and even the house-tops. I have had one now and then upon my window-sill."

A Year Of Sport And Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry And Fishing

Editor: Oswald Crawfurd

Chapman & Hall

1895

Preface: "While superintending the literary department of Black and White, I prevailed upon a number of competent writers on Sport and Natural History to deal week by week, the whole of one year round, with these two topics. We called the series "Field Sports and Field Studies," and as the writers knew their business and how to write upon it, the papers were exceedingly popular. Among the authors were such sportsmen and naturalists as Mr. Aubyn Trevor-Battye, who has since achieved fame in Arctic lands, Mr. George Lindesay, a classic in sporting literature, Mr. H. H. S. Pearse, the admirable writer and referee' on hunting of all kinds, and Mr. Sachs, a known and notable angler and writer on angling, with many others of high local or special authority as sportsmen or naturalists. As regards the artists engaged on this book their work is all so praiseworthy that I hardly like to pick and choose from the list, and elect, instead, to print their names in full on our title-page. I claim for this book, in forty-five parts or sections, that it is not a mere jumbled collection of articles, but a consecutive work dealing, in their due sequence, with forty-five consecutive and most interesting seasonal phases of Sport and Natural History in the British Islands."

Nature And Woodcraft

John Watson

A.D. Innes & Co

1892

Opening of chapter one: "Cumbria is not the primitive spot it once was. As tourists have invaded it, the Eagles and larger birds of prey have left their haunts. The spots which knew the wild white cattle, bears, wolves, and beavers, know them no more; and, by the working of a great natural law, these have become extinct. But if the invasions of a utilitarian age have rid us of the Eagles, they occasionally pay us passing visits in their majestic flights. Among birds the raptors are as kings and princes among men; they hold sway over a wide area, and suffer no intrusion - the raptors, with their clean-cut figures, their bold dash, and glorious eyes! The Lake hills long offered an asylum not only to Eagles, but to all the larger birds of prey; aDd these commonly built among them. Wordsworth and Wilson mention the Golden Eagle as breeding in the Lake District; and in their journals, Gray the poet, and Davy speak - the one of seeing an eyrie robbed, the other of watching the birds themselves. De Quincey has also a note of personal observation. Eaven Crag, the high hills above Keswick, Thirlmere, and Borrowdale, are sites of former eyries. It is asserted by a shepherd of the district that these Eagles, during the breeding season, destroyed a lamb daily, to say nothing of the carnage made on hares, partridges, pheasants, grouse, and the waterfowl that inhabit the lakes."

Coursing and Falconry

Harding Cox and The Hon. Gerald Lascelles

The Badminton Library

Longmans, Green & Co / Little, Brown & Co

1892

Preface: "A few lines only are necessary to explain the object with which these volumes are put forth. There is no modern encyclopaedia to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of the various British Sports and Pastimes, can turn for information. Some books there are on Hunting, some on Racing, some on Lawn Tennis, some on Fishing, and so on; but one Library, or succession of volumes, which treats of the Sports and Pastimes indulged in by Englishmen - and women - is wanting. The Badminton Library is offered to supply the want. Of the imperfections which must be found in the execution of such a design we are conscious. Experts often differ. But this we may say, that those who are seeking for knowledge on and of the subjects dealt with will find the results of many years' experience written by men who are in every case adepts at the Sport or Pastime of which they write. It is to point the way to success to those who are ignorant of the sciences they aspire to master, and who have no friend to help or coach them, that these volumes are written. To those who have worked hard to place simply and clearly before the reader that which he will find within, the best thanks of the Editor are due. That it has been no slight labour to supervise all that has been written, he must acknowledge; but it has been a labour of love, and very much lightened by the courtesy of the Publisher, by the unflinching, indefatigable assistance of the Sub-Editor, and by the intelligent and able arrangement of each subject by the various writers, who are so thoroughly masters of the subjects of which they treat. The reward we all hope to reap is that our work may prove useful to this and future generations."

The Birds Of Lancashire

F.S. Mitchell

Additions by R.J. Howard and other local authors

Illustrations: G.E. Lodge, V. Prout

Gurney & Jackson

1892

This is a revised version of the 1885 work by F.S. Mitchell.

Preface to second edition:"The First Edition having been exhausted very soon after its appearance in 1885, and several species having since been added to the Lancashire list, I accepted the task (in the absence of Mr. Mitchell from England) of preparing a Second Edition, as far as practicable, up to date. I should have preferred that this had devolved upon some ornithologist who was personally connected with the county, but my deficiencies in this respect have, I trust, been remedied by the cordial assistance of Mr. E. J. Howard of Blackburn, whose name appears on the title-page, and whose valuable notes will be found throughout the work. To him also we owe some recent details from Messrs. W. Fitzherbert Brockholes, Hugh P. Hornby, and others. Again, my thanks are due to Messrs. Frank Nicholson and C. F. Archibald; and especially to the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, of Carlisle, who generously placed at my disposal the proofsheets of his "Fauna of Lakeland," in which there is some important information respecting the outlying district of Furness. My own share has been chiefly editorial, and in this connection my labours have been lightened by the admirable and systematic Bibliography for the Northern Counties, published in the present series of The Naturalist. The species added to the Lancashire list in this edition are the Purple Heron (p. 145), Sociable Plover (p. 213, with woodcut), Whitefaced Petrel (p. 258), Wilson's Petrel (p. 258), and Black-necked Grebe (p. 262). There is a new Index. Inasmuch as the full-page illustrations of Duck-decoys in the first edition relate to Fritton in Suffolk, and have, moreover, already appeared elsewhere, they are now omitted..

An Illustrated Manual of British Birds

Howard Saunders

Gurney & Jackson

1889

From the preface: "The plan of a work in which exactly two pages are devoted to each species, may justly be called Procrustean; and, unfortunately for the author, the limited space at his disposal has often been encroached upon owing to the length of an engraving, whereas extension of the text has rarely been called for. Little idea, for instance, can be formed of the labour involved in an article like that on the Crossbill, wherein the necessary consideration of the distinctive features of several local races increased the difficulty of sketching briefly the history of a remarkable bird. In this and similar cases, when four lines in excess meant as many hours of hard work in condensing, the writer has sometimes been tempted - in the interest of his readers as well as in his own - to deviate from the original scheme; yet any such concession must necessarily have led to an increase in the bulk and the expense of the work. Even now, the low price is due to the fact that the publishers own the blocks from which the illustrations were struck for the four editions of Yarrell's ' British Birds ' ; though to these have been added wood-cuts of many recent wanderers to Great Britain, such as the Isabelline, Blackthroated and Desert Wheatears, the Barred Warbler, Wall-Creeper, Needle-tailed Swift, Lesser Kestrel, Killdeer and Sociable Plovers, and Mediterranean Black-headed Gull; while fresh engravings have taken the place of the unsatisfactory originals of the Marsh-Harrier, Gos-Hawk, Merlin and Great Auk. Great liberality has also been shown by the publishers in placing no restriction on alterations whenever the slightest improvement was thereby attainable. For example, a scrap of information, obtained by mere chance, led to the re-writing of the article on the Blue-throat at the last moment, and that too for reasons which nine in ten of my readers might, perhaps, consider inadequate; the tenth, however, would appreciate the need for strict accuracy, and it is his intelligent approbation that I have striven to deserve."

Shooting: Moor and Marsh

Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey

The Badminton Library

Longmans, Green & Co

1889

This may not be the first edition.

The Birds Of Dorsetshire; A Contribution To The Natural History Of The County

John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell

R.H. Porter and M. & E. Case

1888

From the introduction: "There never was a more favourable time than the present for the study of the history of the habits of birds. During the last ten years there have issued from the press, in parts, no less than four important ornithological works, three of which are now complete, (1) Dresser's " Birds of Europe," in 8 vols. 4to, 1 87 1-8 1, supplies a want which was only partially satisfied by Bree's "Birds of Europe not Observed in the British Islands," being, as its title implies, much more comprehensive. (2) Yarrell's "British Birds," 4th edition, in 4 vols. 8vo, 1871- 1885, of which the first two volumes (including the Accipitres Passeres and Picarice) were edited by Professor Newton, and the last two (dealing with the remaining orders) by Mr. Howard Saunders. The important additions made to our knowledge since Yarrell's first publication on the subject, and embodied in this edition, makes it practically a new work. (3) Seebohm's " British Birds," with coloured illustrations of their eggs, 3 vols. 8vo, 1883-85, an excellent work, containing much new and interesting information derived from the author's personal experience, gained not only in the British Islands, but in many parts of Europe, and notably in European and Asiatic Siberia, where the nests and eggs of many so-called rare birds were discovered. (4) Booth's "Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty Years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands," a folio work, which has been appearing in parts with coloured plates since 1881, and of which the last part has been now published, details the results of the author's own experience, and supplies much information concerning the breeding haunts and habits of birds generally accounted rare as observed in Scotland