[Scientific papers detached or reprinted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society and other journals.
Published: 1827
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Birds; Natural history
Notes: Typewritten bibliographical table of contents and notes inserted.

Author's copy with holograph table of contents and notes inserted.
Table of contents: value: Observations on the tracheae of birds, with descriptions and representations of several not hitherto figured.-  On the change in the plumage of some hen-pheasants.-  Description of a species of Tringa, killed in Cambridgeshire, new to England and Europe.-  On the organs of voice in birds.-  On a new species of wild swan, taken in England and hitherto confounded with the Hooper.-  Description of the organ of voice in a new species of wild swan (Cygnus Bussinator, Richardson).- Descriptions of three British species of fresh-water fishes belonging to the genus Leuciscus of Klein.-  Observations on the laws which appear to influence the assumption and changes of plumage in birds.-  Description, with some additional particulars, of the Apteryx Australis of Shaw.-  Some observations on the economy of an insect destructive to turnips.-  On the habits and structure of the Great Bustard (Otis tarda of Linnaeus).