Edinburgh: Constable, 1831. First edition (ix, 334), edited by Robert Jameson. Duodecimo (16 cm) in blue-green cloth, printed titles to spine; title page illustration Night Hawk (Chordeiles minor). The first three volumes of the complete set of four aredevoted to a reprint of Wilsons work (1808-14), re-arranged and with occasional editorial notes by Jameson. A number of Ords notes and comments are printed with due credit. Vol. IV (pp. 1- 217) contains a reprint of the first three volumes of Bonapartes American Ornithology, 1825- 33. There is a catalogue of the species described and figured by Audubon in his Ornithological Biography, 1831- 39, and Birds of America, 1827- 38. The remainder of the volume consists of extracts.of Richardson and Swainsons Fauna Boreali- Americana or Northern Zoology, 1832[then in press] (Zimmer). Alexander Wilson (1766- 1813) apprenticed as a weaver at age ten and later worked as a journeyman andrelied on this trade whenever he could not obtain bet