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"M.A.S." ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1862 Caithness American Bittern.
"M.C." ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1863 Sussex American Bittern.
"M.J.T." ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1868 Norfolk Eagle sp.
"Mid-Winter" ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1861 Suffolk Little Bustard.
Macaskill, A. ( - ) Glen Drynoch, Skye, Highland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1900 Highland Gyr Falcon.
Biography Gamekeeper.
MacCulloch ( - ) Glasgow, Lanarkshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1875 Argyll American Bittern.
Macdonald ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1884 Skye Gyr Falcon.
Macdonald, John ( - ) Perthshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1888 Perth & Kinross Gyr Falcon.
Biography Keeper to Sir Robert Menzies.
MacGillivray ( - ) Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Shot the 1865 Outer Hebrides Surf Scoter.
MacGillivray, Murdo ( - ) Barra, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Shot the 1906 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
Biography Brother of W. L. Macgillivray.
MacGillivray, Prof. William (25/01/1796 - 1852) Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire; Northton, Lewis, Outer Hebrides; Edinburgh, Lothian.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1850 Northeast Scotland Pine Grosbeak. Examined the 1851 Aberdeenshire Common Crane.
Biography Naturalist. Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, prior to 1841, when he took a post in Aberdeen. See British Birds 4: 169-175, also Ralph (1993). His father was also William. His grave is at New Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh.
Obituary Scottish Naturalist 64: 65-69.
MacGillivray, William L. ( - ) Eoligary, Barra, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1900 Outer Hebrides Barred Warbler. Recorded the 1906 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1912 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon. Recorded the three 1913 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcons.
Macgregor, Miss H. ( - ) Callander, Perthshire.
Bird Notes Sold the 1887 Perthshire Great White Egret to NMS.
Machin, T. ( - ) Bridlington, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the now rejected 1864/5 Yorkshire Bufflehead. Owned the 1869 Yorkshire Red-footed Falcon. Preserved the 1897 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle.
Mackay, Eric Sinclair ( - )
Bird Notes A dubious collection of wildfowl, all adult males, collected in May to August, and presented to the Wick Museum in 1916. Owned the rejected 1868 Outer Hebrides Ruddy Shelduck. Owned the rejected 1869 Shetland King Eider. Owned the rejected 1870 Bufflehead. Owned the rejected 1884 Shetland Hooded Merganser. Owned the rejected 1898 Highland Ferruginous Duck.
Biography Unreliable.
Mackay, Hugh ( - )
Bird Notes Informed Gladstone of the two 1890 Dumfries & Galloway Two-barred Crossbills. Preserved and recorded the 1894 Dumfries & Galloway Whiskered Tern.
Mackenzie ( - ) North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Saw the 1906 Outer Hebrides Ivory Gull.
Mackenzie, Austin ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1907 Argyll Gyr Falcon.
Mackenzie, Duncan ( - ) Royal Hotel, Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Sent the 1890 Outer Hebrides Ivory Gull to stuffers. Reported the four Outer Hebrides Snowy Owls. Examined the 1906 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
Mackenzie, Dalziel ( - )
Bird Notes Informed Clark Kennedy about the 1858 Oxfordshire Little Bustard.
Mackenzie, Murdo ( - ) Inverbroom, Highland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1897 Highland Rose-coloured Starling.
Mackenzie, Neil ( - ) St Kilda, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Informed Eagle Clarke of the pre1841 St Kilda Roller.
Mackenzie, Peter ( - ) Kildalton, Islay, Argyll.
Bird Notes Shot the 1862 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
Mackenzie, P. H. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1926 Orkney Sociable Lapwing.
Mackinnon, Andrew ( - ) Benbecula, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Owned the 1927 Outer Hebrides Blue-winged Teal.
Biography Keeper.
Mackworth-Praed, C. W. ( - ) Hampshire.
Bird Notes Reidentified the 1861 Hampshire Spotted Eagle as a White-tailed Eagle. Saw and recorded the 1925 Highland Roller. Shot the 1934 Hampshire Great Snipe.
Maclean ( - ) Essex.
Bird Notes Informed C. R. Bree about the 1850s Essex Little Bustard.
MacLeay, William A. ( - ) 65 or 80, Church Street, Inverness, Inverness-shire.
Bird Notes Recorded and preserved the two 1859 Highland Snowy Owls. Preserved the 1868 Highland Snowy Owl. Preserved the 1868 Highland Roller. Preserved the 1868 Highland Nutcracker. Preserved the 1884 Skye Gyr Falcon. Preserved one of the 1884 Highland Rose-coloured Starlings. Preserved the 1890 Outer Hebrides Ivory Gull. Preserved the 1891 Argyll Wilson's Storm-petrel. Preserved the 1900 Skye Gyr Falcon. Preserved the 1906 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
Biography Successor to Lewis Dunbar.
MacPherson, Arthur Holte (1867 - 07/01/1953) London.
Bird Notes Recorded and saw the 1884 Wiltshire Woodchat Shrike. Examined the 1902 Warwickshire Little Bunting. Saw the rejected 1922 Norfolk Arctic Warbler.
Biography Solicitor. Cousin of H. A. Macpherson. See Wheatley (2007: 79).
Obituary British Birds 47: 335.
MacPherson, Rev. Hugh A. (09/02/1858 - 26/11/1901) Allonby Vicarage, Allonby, Cumbria; 20, Cecil Street, Carlisle, Cumbria; 3 Kensington Gardens Square, London.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1793 Cork Cattle Egret. Examined the 1842 Cumbria Gyr Falcon. Examined the c.1850 Cumbria Ivory Gull. Examined the 1860 Cumbria Gyr Falcon. Examined the 1864 Cumbria Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1866 Yorkshire Little Bittern. Examined and recorded the 1866 Highland Gyr Falcon. Examined the 1872 Wiltshire Woodchat Shrike. Saw and recorded the 1873 Hertfordshire Woodchat Shrike. Examined the 1882 Lancashire Surf Scoter. Recorded and examined the 1884 Skye Gyr Falcon. Recorded three and examined one 1884 Highland Rose-coloured Starlings. Recorded and examined the 1886 Fife Black-headed Bunting. Recorded and examined the rejected 1891 Cumbria White-faced Storm-petrel. Saw the 1891 Cumbria Richard's Pipit. Recorded and examined the 1898 Cumbria Richard's Pipit. Recorded the 1901 Highland Gyr Falcon.
Biography Vicar. Author of The Birds of Cumberland critically studied, including some notes on the birds of Westmoreland, and of the bird section for the Victoria County History (Cumberland). Uncle to A. H. Macpherson. See Birding Scotland 8: 137-140.
Obituary Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society 1912 (2): 1-13; Ibis 1902: 174-175; Zoologist 1902: 18-20.
Macpherson, J. ( - ) Kinbrace, Sutherland, Highland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1888 Highland Gyr Falcon.
MacPherson, William ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1897 Caithness Bee-eaters.
Macquarrie, Ian ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1930 Cumbria Snowy Owl.
MacRury, John ( - ) Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1887 Outer Hebrides Snowy Owl. Shot the 1890 Outer Hebrides Siberian Crane.
Madoc, H. W. ( - ) Isle of Man.
Bird Notes Saw the 1920s Isle of Man Ferruginous Duck. Saw the 1928 Isle of Man Ferruginous Duck. Saw the 1929 Isle of Man Ferruginous Duck. Saw the 1930 Isle of Man Ferruginous Duck. Saw the two 1933 Isle of Man Ferruginous Ducks. Saw and reported the 1933 Norfolk Little Bunting. Saw the 1933 Norfolk Red-breasted Flycatcher. Saw the 1934-35 Cambridgeshire Lesser Yellowlegs. Saw the 1935 Isle of Man Lesser Yellowlegs.
Magor ( - ) Penventon, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Owned the 1830 Cornwall Gyr Falcon.
Magor, E. J. P. ( - ) Lamellan, St Tudy, Redruth, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Owned the pre 1850 Cornwall Little Bittern. Owned the c.1913 Cornwall Gyr Falcon.
Mair, William ( - ) Maybole, Ayrshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1927-28 Ayrshire Snowy Owl.
Major ( - ) Devon.
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected pre1890 Devon Pine Grosbeak.
Biography Gardener.
Malloch, G. D. ( - ) Perth, Perth & Kinross.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1901 Highland Gyr Falcon. Preserved the 1933 Dumfries & Galloway Upland Sandpiper. Preserved the ten 1907 Orkney Glossy Ibis.
Malloch, Peter Duncan (1853 - 1921) High Street and Scott Street, Perth, Perth & Kinross.
Bird Notes Shot the 1883 Perth & Kinross American Golden Plover.
Biography Started work in 1871 with his brother James as his assistant in the High Street and in 1913 moved to Scott Street which lasted until 1981.
Malmesbury ( - ) Heron Court, Christchurch, Dorset.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1893 Hampshire Little Bittern. Owned the 1893 Hampshire Squacco Heron.
Malmesbury ( - ) Heron Court, Christchurch, Dorset.
Bird Notes Owned the 1810 Hampshire Little Bustard. Owned the 1828 Dorset White's Thrush. Owned the 1839 Dorset Black Stork. Informed W. Yarrell about the 1839 Dorset Glossy Ibis. Owned the 1862 Dorset Little Bittern.
Mann ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1872 Suffolk Little Bittern.
Mann, E. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the possible 1934 Pembrokeshire Black-eared Wheatear.
Mann, Richard ( - ) Aigle Gill Farm, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Saw the 1887 Cumbria Isabelline Wheatear. Saw the 1889 Cumbria Richard's Pipit.
Mann, R. ( - ) Nottinghamshire.
Bird Notes Saw the 1947 Nottinghamshire Rose-coloured Starling.
Mann, Thomas ( - ) Aigle Gill Farm, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Shot the 1887 Cumbria Isabelline Wheatear. Saw the 1889 Cumbria Richard's Pipit. Saw the 1898 Cumbria Richard's Pipit.
Mann, T. J. ( - ) The Grange, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
Bird Notes Examined and recorded the 1882 Dorset Great Snipe. Owned the rejected 1884 Hampshire Great Reed Warbler. Owned parts of the 1891 Norfolk Great Bustard.
Mannering, Guy ( - ) Dover, Kent.
Bird Notes Owned the 1917 Kent American Wigeon. Found dead and preserved the 1931 Kent Bridled Tern. Preserved and owned the 1935 Kent Caspian Tern.
Biography Donated his collection of nearly 1000 specimens of birds that were stuffed personally to the Maidstone Museum. Most are of Kentish origin, while others are from the rest of Britain (Borrer 1960).
Manning ( - ) Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1834 Suffolk Ruddy Shelduck.
Mansell ( - ) Cornwall.
Bird Notes Shot the two 1869 Cornwall Richard's Pipit.
Mansell, T. ( - ) Farnham, Surrey.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1854 Surrey Little Bittern.
Mansel-Pleydell, John Clavell (1817 - 1902) Whatcombe, Blandford, Dorset.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1879 Dorset Ferruginous Duck. Recorded the 1888 Dorset Great Bustard.
Biography Author of county avifauna of Dorset.
Obituary Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History Society and Antiquarian Field Club 23: 62-72; Zoologist 1902: 191.
Manser, G. E. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Kent Long-billed Dowitcher.
Mansfield ( - )
Bird Notes Sold the rejected 1863 Highland Red-shouldered Hawk.
Mar ( - ) Alloa Park, Clackmannanshire, Upper Forth.
Bird Notes One of his keepers shot the 1879 Forth Night Heron.
Marks ( - ) Penzance, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Examined the rejected 1876 Cornwall Lesser Kestrel.
Biography Naturalist.
Markwick, William ( - ) Catsfield, Sussex.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1790 Sussex Roller. Recorded the 1791 Sussex Little Crake. Recorded the 1793 Sussex Great Snipe. Recorded the pre1795 Sussex Rose-coloured Starling.
Biography See Zoologist 1890: 335-345, 379.
Marriner, T. F. ( - ) Cumbria.
Bird Notes Presented the rejected 1921 Cumbria Glossy Ibis to Carlisle Museum.
Marsden, G. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1872 Yorkshire Little Bittern.
Marsden, H. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected 1908 Gloucestershire Downy Woodpecker.
Biography Dealer.
Marsh, Rev. G. S. (1812 - 1862) Sutton Benger, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Informed Smith about the rejected c.1835 Scops Owl. Recorded and owned the rejected 1836 Wiltshire Northern Flicker. Recorded and owned the rejected 1849 Wiltshire Wilson's Storm-petrel.
Biography Vicar. See Birds of Wiltshire (2007: 78). Seems unreliable.
Marsh, Henry ( - ) Leeds, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1891 Yorkshire Snowy Owl.
Marshall, Anthony ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Essex Pectoral Sandpiper.
Marshall, Alexander ( - ) Arbroath, Angus & Dundee.
Bird Notes Shot the 1887 Angus & Dundee Desert Wheatear.
Biography Unreliable. Harvie-Brown (1906: 232) says: 'But I may add that it may well be desirable to take any notes made by the said Mr. Marshall with a pinch of salt; because as I am aware, he was rather fond of springing small surprises upon his customers.'
Marshall, Charles ( - ) Castle Hotel, Bamburgh, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Saw the two between 1897 and 1901 Northumberland Rose-coloured Starlings and informed Bolam. Owned the c.1899 Northumberland Ivory Gull.
Marshall, John ( - ) Belmont, Taunton, Somerset.
Bird Notes Recorded and shot the rejected 1861 Shetland White-backed Woodpecker. Recorded and owned the 1869 Somerset Rose-coloured Starling. Owned the 1871 Essex Red-breasted Goose.
Biography Owned varieties of birds captured near Constantinople (Zoologist 1877: 164).
Marshall, Wilfrid ( - ) Norton Manor, Taunton, Somerset.
Bird Notes Owned the 1871 Essex Red-breasted Goose.
Marsham, Robert ( - ) Stratton Hall, Stratton Strawless, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1792 Wallcreeper in a letter to Gilbert White.
Marsh-Dunn ( - 1890s) Carlton Lodge, Teignmouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1854-5 Devon Pine Grosbeak. Owned the 1865 Devon Little Bittern.
Biography A remarkably fine collection of British birds, many of them of great rarity, formed by the late Mr. Marsh-Dunn. It contains the Red-crested Pochard shot at Braunton. The collection formed by the late Mr. Byre of Milligan Hall, near Taunton, was purchased by Mr. Marsh-Dunn, and was amalgamated with his own.
Martin ( - ) Lothian.
Bird Notes Shot the 1840 Lothian Great White Egret. Recorded the now rejected 1852 Lothian Squacco Heron. Recorded the 1852 Lothian Surf Scoter.
Biography Gamekeeper.
Martin ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the rejected pre1866 Suffolk Gyr Falcon.
Biography Gamekeeper.
Martin ( - ) Cottingham, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1837 Yorkshire Night Heron.
Biography Keeper to Mr. Ringrose, Cottingham.
Martin, A. T. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 1925 Hampshire Rose-coloured Starling.
Martin, Cyril E. ( - ) Dorset.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1947 Dorset Bee-eater.
Martin, Henry ( - ) Dardarroch House, Dunscore, Dumfries & Galloway.
Bird Notes Shot the two 1890 Dumfries & Galloway Two-barred Crossbills.
Martin, J. T. ( - ) Quy Hall, Cambridgeshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1835 Cambridgeshire Collared Pratincole.
Martin, W. ( - ) Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1853 Lothian Surf Scoter. Recorded the rejected 1852 Squacco Heron. Recorded the rejected 1853 Cleveland Gyr Falcon.
Martinson, R. ( - ) Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, Co. Durham.
Bird Notes Saw the five 1943 Durham Two-barred Crossbills.
Marwick, J. G. ( - ) Orkney.
Bird Notes Sent details to NMS re 1936 Orkney Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Biography Provost.
Masefield, John R. B. ( - ) Rosehill, Cheadle, Staffordshire.
Bird Notes Owned one 1888 Staffordshire Pallas's Sandgrouse. Recorded the 1905 Staffordshire White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1929 Staffordshire Glossy Ibis.
Mash, J. ( - ) 32, Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1891 Suffolk Tengmalm's Owl.
Mason ( - ) Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Presented the 1833 Lincolnshiire Nutcracker to Lincoln Museum.
Mason, Anthony ( - ) Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1912 Norfolk Little Bustard.
Mason, A. ( - )
Bird Notes Reported the 1855 Cumbria Rose-coloured Starling to Macpherson. Reported incorrectly the 1848 Cumbria Night Heron.
Mason, James Eardley ( - ) 27, Cheviot Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the c.1815 Lincolnshire Common Cranes.
Mason, P. ( - ) Norwich, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1912 Norfolk Little Bustard.
Mason, R. ( - ) Poolstock, Wigan, Lancashire/Greater Manchester.
Bird Notes Owned the c. 1915 Lancashire Harlequin Duck.
Mason, R. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1916 or 1917 Lancashire Harlequin Duck
Massey, Charles J. ( - ) Closes Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1898 Lancashire Purple Swamp-hen.
Massey, Herbert ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1915 Lancashire Black-eared Wheatear.
Master, Alfred ( - ) Norwich, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1855 Norfolk Rose-coloured Starling.
Biography Brother of George Master.
Master, George ( - ) Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, London.
Bird Notes Owned the 1851 Norfolk Rose-coloured Starling.
Biography Brother of Alfred Master.
Masters, C. ( - ) Rutland.
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1877 Rutland Great Snipe. Shot the rejected 1885 Rutland Great Snipe. Saw the rejected 1897 Rutland Bonaparte's Gull.
Mather, John ( - ) Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Examined the 1852 Yorkshire Black Stork.
Mather, M. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1894 Dorset Cape Petrel.
Mather, T. ( - ) Liverpool, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1857 Flintshire Roller.
Matheson, Bart., J. ( - ) Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Owned the 1865 Outer Hebrides Surf Scoter.
Mathew ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1870 Kent Hooded Merganser.
Mathew, Rev. Arnold H. ( - ) Kingsdown, Deal, Kent.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 100 plus 5 more plus another 5 Alpine Swifts all in 1915 Kent.
Biography Roman Catholic Archbishop.
Mathew, Gervase F. ( - ) Raleigh House, Instow, Devon; Lee House, Dovercourt, Essex.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the two rejected 1860 Devon Cream-coloured Coursers. Shot and recorded the 1864 Devon Richard's Pipit. Recorded the four 1868 Devon Great Snipe. Recorded the 1869 Devon Night Heron. Shot and recorded the 1869 Devon Richard's Pipit. Saw and recorded the 1889 Essex Common Crane. Shot and recorded the 1871 Devon Richard's Pipit. Shot and recorded the 1876 Devon Baillon's Crake. Recorded in error the 1876 Devon Caspian Terns. Recorded and examined the 1880 Devon Little Bustard. Saw and recorded the 1889 Essex Common Crane.
Biography Royal Navy. Brother of Murray and W. C. Mathew.
Mathew, J. ( - ) Kilve (Chelvey), Somerset.
Bird Notes Preserved and owned the 1825 Somerset Egyptian Vulture.
Mathew, Rev. Murray Alexander (1838 - 1908) b. Middlesex. Raleigh, Barnstaple, Devon; Bishop's Lydeard, Taunton, Somerset; Buckland Dinham, Frome, Somerset; Stone Hall, Wolf's Castle, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Bird Notes Examined the 1828 Dorset White's Thrush. Examined and recorded the 1842 Dorset Lesser Grey Shrike. Recorded and examined the pre1854 Somerset Upland Sandpiper in 1877. Recorded the two 1856 Devon Cream-coloured Coursers. Recorded the rejected 1858 Devon Greater Spotted Eagle. Recorded the 1859 Oxfordshire Little Bustard. Recorded the 1864 Avon Little Bittern. Recorded the rejected 1864 Somerset Ivory Gull. Examined and recorded the 1866 Devon Glossy Ibis. Recorded the 1868 Devon Little Bittern. Recorded and owned the 1869 Norfolk Lesser Grey Shrike. Recorded the rejected 1870 Devon American Wigeon. Recorded the 1871 Devon Great Bustard. Owned one of the 1870 Devon White-rumped Sandpipers. Examined the 1870 Somerset White's Thrush. Informed Newton of the 1874 Devon Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Recorded and examined the 1875 Devon American Bittern. Recorded the escaped 1875 Somerset Purple Gallinule. Recorded the 1875 Devon Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1876 Devon Little Bittern. Recorded the rejected 1876 Hampshire Red-footed Falcon. Recorded and owned the 1876 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Examined the 1876 Devon Rufous Bush Robin. Owned the 1880 Devon Braunton Little Bustard. Examined the 1880 Devon North Tawton Little Bustard. saw and recorded the rejected 1886 Pembrokeshire Icterine Warbler. Found in a shop and recorded the 1889 Cornwall Green-backed Heron. Recorded the 1893 Dorset Squacco Heron and Little Bittern. Recorded the rejected 1894 Dorset Cape Petrel. Saw and recorded the two rejected 1896 Dorset Icterine Warblers.
Biography Vicar. Brother of Gervase and W. C. Mathew. Author of The Birds of Devon (1892) and The Birds of Pembrokeshire (1894).
Having been compelled to resign the living of Bishop's Lydeard, in West Somerset, in consequence of long continued ill health, we were induced to settle in North Pembrokeshire on account of the healthiness of the climate; and were further led to select this remote part of the kingdom through anticipations of the sport to be enjoyed by its trout streams and on its moors. A time entirely given over to open-air pursuits was recommended as the best course to be adopted for the recovery of health, and we are thankful to state that this pleasant prescription met with entire success. Much of our eight years' residence in the county, which was not without its clerical duties, as we became curate of our small parish, was devoted to a study of its birds. All the noted bird resorts were visited, as well as the various collections of stuffed birds we could hear of within the county; while from numerous sporting friends, and from others with a taste for natural history, whatever information they were able to impart was sought after and noted down. We now present the result; although meagre, it may serve as the foundation upon which an ampler account of the birds of the county may some day be based.
He retired to Bristol, dying in 1908 at Brislington House. He is buried at Buckland Dinham.
Mathew, W. C. ( - ) Barnstaple, Devon.
Bird Notes Shot the 1869 Devon Night Heron.
Biography Brother of Gervase and Murray Mathew.
Mathews, G. M. (10/09/1876 - 27/03/1949) Winchester, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Recorded, examined and owned the 1931 Hampshire White Stork.
Mathias, H. ( - ) Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1858 Somerset Black-winged Stilt. Owned the pre1881 Avon/Somerset Collared Pratincole. Owned the pre 1867 Somerset Little Crake. Owned the pre 1881 Somerset Bee-eater.
Matthews, Revs. Andrew & Henry ( - ) Oxfordshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1793 Berkshire Glossy Ibis. Recorded the 1793 Berkshire White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1827 Oxfordshire Little Bittern. Recorded the four 1828 Oxfordshire White Storks. Recorded the 1829 Oxfordshire Common Crane. Recorded the 1831 Oxfordshire Great Snipe. Recorded the 1832 Oxfordshire Ferruginous Duck. Recorded the 1833 Oxfordshire Night Heron. Recorded the rejected 1833 Oxfordshire Little Bustard. Recorded the rejected 1833 Oxfordshire Scops Owl. Recorded and owned the 1835 Oxfordshire Night Heron. Recorded the 1835 Oxfordshire Purple Heron. Recorded the 1835 Oxfordshire Little Bustard. Recorded the 1837 Oxfordshire Purple Heron. Recorded the 1837 Oxfordshire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the rejected 1838 Oxfordshire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1839 Oxfordshire Ferruginous Duck. Recorded the 1839 Oxfordshire Great Snipe. Recorded the two 1844 Oxfordshire Ferruginous Ducks. Recorded the 1847 Oxfordshire Ferruginous Duck. Recorded the 1847 Oxfordshire Little Bittern. Recorded the 1849 Oxfordshire Black-winged Stilt.
Biography Brothers. July 16th 1901 was the sale of their collection at Stevens' rooms (Zool. 1901: 63). Left Bedfordshire in 1854 (Aplin, 1889).
Obituary Zoologist 1897: 466.
Matthews, H. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1869 Leicestershire Rose-coloured Starling.
Maude, E. ( - ) London.
Bird Notes Owned the 1837-38 Greater London American Wigeon.
Maudsley ( - ) Preston, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Sold the rejected 1891 Lancashire Dowitcher sp.
Biography Game dealer.
Maughan, J. ( - ) Horseholm, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1932 Cumbria Glossy Ibis.
Maunsell, Col. ( - ) Thorpe Malsor, Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1858 Northamptonshire Little Bustard.
Maunsell, Cockayne ( - ) Thorpe Malsor, Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1858 Northamptonshire Little Bustard.
Mauri, Ernesto (12/01/1791 - 1836) b. Rome.
Biography Director of the Botanical Gardens in Rome. His friend Charles Bonaparte named the Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri (Cabanis) in his honour two years after his death but didn’t provide a description which came later through Cabanis from an AMerican specimen.
Maxwell, Sir H. (1845 - 1937) Dumfries & Galloway.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1891 Dumfries & Galloway Nutcracker.
Biography Naturalist, sportsman and writer.
May, A. B. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1949 Devon White Stork.
May, G. E. ( - ) Hexworthy, Princetown, Devon.
Bird Notes Saw the 1949 Devon White Stork.
May, William ( - ) East Grinstead, Sussex.
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1849 Sussex Roller.
May, W. Norman ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1916 Oxfordshire Glossy Ibis.
Mayall, R. G. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1945 Cambridgeshire Black-winged Stilts.
Maynard ( - )
Bird Notes Examined the 1901 Essex Gull-billed Tern.
Biography Curator at Saffron Walden Museum.
Maynard, H. A. V. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1908 Norfolk Barred Warbler.
Maynard, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the two 1866 Suffolk Night Herons.
Mayo, A. L. W. ( - ) Devon.
Bird Notes Saw the 1947 Devon Black-eared Wheatear.
Mayo, J. W. ( - ) Seaton, Devon.
Bird Notes Reported the 1918 Devon Night Heron.
McCalman ( - ) Ardchattan, Argyll.
Bird Notes Owned the 1867 Argyll Ivory Gull.
McCleary ( - ) Inverness, Inverness-shire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1869 Highland Snowy Owl.
McConachie, W. ( - ) Manse of Lauder, Borders.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1913 Borders Yellow-browed Warbler.
McCrindle ( - ) Dunure, Ayrshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1924 Ayrshire Ivory Gull.
Biography Fisherman.
McCulloch, F. & Sons ( - ) 166, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected 1863 Argyll Purple Swamphen. Preserved the 1866 Lanarkshire Roller. Preserved the pre1869 Clyde Dowitcher sp.
McDonald, John ( - ) Newton, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Shot the 1860 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
McDonald, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Sold the rejected 1863 Highland Red-shouldered Hawk.
McDougall, Peter (18/01/1777 - 1814) b. Kilsyth, Glsgow.
Biography Doctor. While with two friends on Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde one of them shot a tern which landed close to McDougall. He noticed that it was different to some of the other terns, shorter in the wing, whiter in plumage and being slower in motion of flight. His friend Captain Laskey was also friendly with George Montagu and from here Montagu (1813) named the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii in his honour.
McDowall, Capt. James ( - ) Logan House, Dumfries & Galloway.
Bird Notes Shot the 1832 Dumfries & Galloway Bee-eater.
McFadgeon/McFadyean, A. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1890 Cornwall Least Sandpiper.
McGregor, P. J. C. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the three rejected 1932 Outer Hebrides Little Buntings.
McIntosh, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1852 Staffordshire Sooty Tern.
McLaren, K. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1935 Highland Flamingo.
McLean, Allan ( - ) North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Shot the 1864 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
Biography Gamekeeper.
McLean, A. S. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the two 1945 Cambridgeshire Black-winged Stilts.
McLean, K. ( - ) Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1858 Yorkshire White Stork. Recorded the rejected 1860 or 1861 Yorkshire Night Heron. Informed Nelson of the rejected 1860 Cleveland White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the rejected 1871 Yorkshire Ivory Gull. Recorded the rejected 1872 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded the rejected 1873 Yorkshire Red-footed Falcon. Shot, recorded and owned the 1875 Yorkshire Eagle Owl.
McMorland, W. ( - ) Chislehurst, London/Kent.
Bird Notes Presented the 1873 Hampshire Little Bustard to the British Museum.
McNichol, N. ( - ) Westfield, Thurso, Caithness.
Bird Notes Recorded and preserved the 1876 Caithness Gyr Falcon. Shot the 1887 Caithness Gyr Falcon.
McQueen, R. R. ( - ) Chailey, Sussex.
Bird Notes Owned the 1870 Sussex Roller and presented to T. J. Monk.
McRae, Capt. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1865 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
McTyer, Dr. ( - ) Redbrae, Glasgow area.
Bird Notes Recorded the pre1837 Ayrshire Great Bustard.
McWilliam, Rev. John Morell (1883 - 1968) Dumfries & Galloway.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1901 Sligo Upland Sandpiper.
Biography Author of county avifauna of Clyde.
Obituary Scottish Birds 5: 113-115.
Mead-Briggs, A. R. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Norfolk White-rumped Sandpiper.
Meade ( - ) Earsham Hall, Norfolk, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Her collection contained the 1858 Norfolk Little Shearwater.
Meade-Waldo, Edmund Gustavus Bloomfield (1855 - 24/02/1934) Boldre, Lymington, Hampshire; Kent.
Bird Notes Saw the 1885 Hampshire White-tailed Eagle. Saw the 1895 Hampshire White-tailed Eagle.
Biography Estate Manager. Introduced the Little Owl into the New Forest in the 1870s. Vice-President of the Zoological Society.
Obituary British Birds 27: 333-334; Ibis 1934: 399.
Medlicott, W. S. ( - ) Normanby, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1915 Yorkshire Black-eared Wheatear. Recorded and examined the 1931 Yorkshire Roller. Saw and recorded the 1931 Yorkshire Two-barred Crossbill.
Biography Secretary of the Vertebrate Zoology Section of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union from 1919-22 when he left the county.
Meeson, P. M. ( - ) Rettendon Place, Battlesbridge, Essex.
Bird Notes Saw, recorded and owned the 1908 Essex Spotted Eagle.
Meggison, Rev. W. J. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1871 Northumberland Little Bittern.
Meiklejohn, Col. Maury F. M. (1913 - 14/05/1974) Harpenden, Hertfordshire; Glasgow.
Bird Notes Saw the 1947 Norfolk Solitary Sandpiper. Saw the 1948 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle. Saw the 1948 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpiper. Saw the 1949 Isle of May Black-headed Bunting.
Obituary British Birds 67: 469-472; Scottish Birds 8: 82-85; Scottish Bird News No.80 June 2006.
Meiklejohn, R. F. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1948 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpiper.
Meinertzhagen (nee Jackson), Anne Constance (02/06/1889 - 06/07/1928) Swordale, Sutherland, Highland.
Bird Notes Examined and recorded the two 1910 Highland Gyr Falcons. Recorded the 1912 Highland Common Rosefinch. Shot and recorded the 1913 Argyll Barred Warbler. Saw and recorded the 1922 Highland Ortolan Bunting.
Biography Married Richard Meinertzhagen in March 1921. Studied Zoology at the Imperial College of Science, London. Had three children.
Obituary British Birds 22: 58-59; Ibis 1928: 781; Scottish Naturalist 48: 130-132.
Meinertzhagen, jun., D. ( - ) Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Examined and recorded the 1891 Hampshire Eagle Owl.
Meinertzhagen, Col. Richard (1878 - 17/06/1967) Brockwood Park, Alresford and Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1893 Greater London Black Stork.
Biography Soldier. Married Anne Constance Jackson in March 1921. Both members of the BOU, Richard from 1899 and Anne was elected a Honorary Lady Member in 1915. Most of the records involving him have been rejected. He removed specimens from the BMNH and changed the labels to having been procured by himself elsewhere (see Ibis 135: 320-325, 493-499). Unreliable.
Obituary British Birds 60: 476-480, plate 57.
Mellersh, W. L. ( - ) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected pre 1849 Sussex Pine Grosbeak. Examined the 1913 Northeast Scotland Red-footed Falcon.
Biography Author of county avifauna of Gloucestershire.
Melvill, T. Cosmo ( - ) Maunsell House, near Bridgwater, Somerset.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1873 Somerset Nutcracker.
Mennell, Edward N. ( - ) Shirley, Croydon, Surrey.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1913 Surrey Nutcracker.
Mercer ( - ) Low Staindale Farm, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw the 1948 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle.
Mercer, F. H. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1866 Middlesex Great Snipe.
Mercer, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1892 Lancashire Ruddy Shelduck.
Messent, R. J. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1907 Sussex Serin.
Metcalf, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1854 Lincolnshire Purple Heron.
Metcalf, Thomas ( - ) Highfields, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1860 or 1861 Yorkshire Night Heron. Shot the rejected 1872 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl.
Metcalfe ( - ) Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1897 Hampshire Little Bustard.
Biography Keeper.
Methuen, Plumptre ( - ) Plymouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Sent word to W. Yarrell about rejected 1824 Devon Purple Heron.
Mewburn, Henry ( - ) St Germans, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Sent the 1816 Cornwall Little Bustard to Bewick.
Obituary Birds in Cornwall 1997: 130-134.
Meyer, Henry Leonard (1798 - 1865)
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1839 Surrey Crested Tit. Saw the pre 1842 Surrey Woodchat Shrike.
Biography Author.
Micklethwaite, S. N. ( - ) Hickling, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1871 Norfolk White's Thrush. Owned the escaped 1877 Norfolk Purple Swamphen.
Milburn, C. E. ( - 1933) Middlesborough, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Examined the 1900 Durham Glossy Ibis. Saw and recorded the 1902 Durham Little Bunting. Saw one of the 1915 Durham White-tailed Eagles.
Biography Temperley (1951) says: 'No account of Durham Ornithologists would be complete if it failed to include some reference to those men of humbler origin who, while writing no Catalogues nor publishing records of their work, yet devoted their time to the study of birds in the field and by their patient observations added much to the knowledge of the distribution and habits of the birds of the County. At the Teesmouth, for many years, C. E. Milburn, of Middlesbrough (died 1933) and Joseph Bishop, of Stockton (died 1939) kept ceaseless watch over the coming and going of the various species that haunted that area and recorded many of its rarities.'
Mildmay, H. ( - ) Dogsmerfield Park, Odiham, Hampshire.
Bird Notes One of his keepers shot the 1881 Hampshire Glossy Ibis.
Millais, John Guille (1865 - 24/03/1931) 2, Palace Gate, London; Kensington, London; Horsham, Sussex.
Bird Notes Shot, owned and recorded the 1880 Perthshire Richard's Pipit. Shot and saw the several rejected 1880 Perth & Kinross Parrot Crossbill. Saw the 1883 Fife King Eider. Recorded and owned the 1883 Perthshire American Golden Plover. Shot the 1885 Caithness Ivory Gull. Owned and recorded the 1887 Orkney American Golden Plover. Owned the rejected pre1889 Hampshire Little Crake. Recorded and owned the 1907 Sussex Roller. Recorded the rejected 1911 Devon Baikal Teal.
Biography His teenage years were spent wildfowling on the north-east coast of Scotland which enabled him to publish bestselling books at the time on Ducks: The Natural History of the British Surface-feeding Ducks (1902) and British Diving Ducks (1913). Gentleman gunner who was also adept with the catapult. Artist and ornithologist. Son of J. E. Millais.
Obituary British Birds 24: 362-363; Ibis 1931: 589-591.
Millais, R. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1930 Wiltshire/Gloucestershire Crested Tit.
Millard, C. S. ( - ) Costock Rectory, Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1888 Leicestershire Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Millbank ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the five 1857 Outer Hebrides Snowy Owls.
Miller, jun., H. ( - ) Ipswich, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1876 Suffolk Roller.
Miller, Stephen ( - ) Southtown, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1824 Norfolk Night Heron. Owned one of the rejected 1830 Norfolk Bufflehead. Owned the 1831 Suffolk Squacco Heron. Owned the now rejected 1833 Norfolk Little Bittern. Owned the 1840 Norfolk Dowitcher sp. Owned the rejected pre1846 Norfolk Ivory Gull.
Biography Unreliable. His collection was auctioned in 74 lots at Yarmouth in September, 1853, but the bad state of preservation of many of them rendered them of little value. Specimens from his collection went to Castle Museum, Norwich.
Patterson (1905) says: 'Stephen Miller, a contemporary and friend of Smith [Librarian at Yarmouth], resided at Southtown, and was an enthusiastic collector. My stepmother, when I was a small boy, used to interest me greatly by her quaint descriptions of the birds whose cases she used to dust when a domestic in Miller's service, and of how his rooms and staircases were crowded with them.
"This celebrated collection", says Stevenson (vol. i. pp. 60-61), "...was sold by auction, at Yarmouth, in September 1853, subsequent to Mr. Miller's decease, but the bad state of preservation of many of the specimens unfortunately rendered them of little value." Amongst the rare birds in his collection described as "principally Norfolk shot" were the Bufflehead, Great White Egret, Little Egret, Roller, Black-winged Stilt, Night Heron, Squacco Heron, Ivory Gull, Scop's Owl, Snowy Owl and others, some of which can be traced to this day. Most of them, however, have utterly disappeared, and are probably destroyed. Mrs. Miller subsequently informed Mr. Rising, who made enquiries for H. Stevenson, that she "always understood from her husband that they were all British-killed specimens, and that the water birds, including the waders, were shot on or in the immediate vicinity of Breydon water." There were seventy-four lots sold, which produced what would now be considered very low prices; but some of these birds, sold thirty years after at Mr. Rising's sale, produced the high prices already mentioned.'
Miller, W. L. ( - ) Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1877 Northumberland Great Snipe.
Millet, Humphrey ( - ) Ninnis, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Shot the 1765 Cornwall Roller.
Millet, J. N. R. ( - ) Penzance, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Shot the 1850 Cornwall Crested Lark.
Biography Robinson (2003) says: 'Mid-19th century Penzance collector and probable dealer in skins and eggs.'
Mills ( - ) Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1905 Pembrokeshire American Bittern. Informed Lockley about the 1909 Pembrokeshire Little Egret.
Mills ( - ) Gunthorpe, Nottinghamshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1905 Nottinghamshire Dusky Thrush.
Biography Nursery gardener.
Mills, F. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the HR 1903 Kent Black-winged Pratincole.
Mills, J. ( - ) Hampshire.
Bird Notes Reported the c.1875 Hampshire Ferruginous Duck.
Mills, W. H. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1946 Cambridgeshire Moustached Warblers.
Milne, William ( - )
Bird Notes Found the 1907 Highland Little Bittern.
Milner, Bart., William Mordaunt Edward (20/06/1820 - 12/02/1867) Nunappleton, Yorkshire; Eaton Place, London.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1844 Yorkshire Collared Pratincole. Recorded the four 1845 Yorkshire Two-barred Crossbills. Recorded the rejected three 1846 Nottinghamshire Two-barred Crossbills. Saw and recorded the 1847 Highland White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the rejected 1847 Outer Hebrides Brünnich's Guillemot. Recorded and owned the rejected 1847 Yorkshire Ross's Gull. Recorded and owned the 1848 Yorkshire White Stork. Recorded and owned the rejected 1848 Yorkshire Orphean Warbler. Recorded the rejected 1849 Yorkshire Spotted Sandpiper. Recorded and owned the 1853 Highland Snowy Owl. Recorded and owned the 1854 Nottinghamshire Lesser Yellowlegs. Recorded the 1857 Nottinghamshire Glossy Ibis. Owned the rejected 1861 Northeast Scotland Greater Spotted Eagle. Recorded the rejected 1868 Yorkshire Lesser Yellowlegs.
Biography Married Georgina Ann Lumley at St George’s, Hanover Square, London in the Spring of 1844. Had an extensive collection of birds that were sold at Stevens Auction Rooms, Covent Garden on April 22-23, 1895 (Science Gossip 1895: 69). Visited St Kilda for three days, 14th to 16th June 1847. Bought many of his specimens from the now discredited David Graham, taxidermist, York.
Milner, C. ( - )
Bird Notes Examined the 1949 Yorkshire Greenish Warbler.
Milne-Redhead, R. ( - ) Bolton-by-Bowland, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected two 1884 Yorkshire Common Cranes.
Milton ( - ) Great Marlborough Street, London.
Bird Notes Owned the two 1825 Yorkshire Great Bustards.
Milton ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the rejected pre 1852 Greater London Spotted Sandpiper.
Mirehouse, Col. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1908 Pembrokeshire Alpine Swift.
Mitchell, Alexander ( - ) Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1851 Aberdeenshire Common Crane. Saw the pre1853 Northeast Scotland Snowy Owl. Preserved the 1854 Northeast Scotland American Bittern. Preserved the 1855 Northeast Scotland Eskimo Curlew. Preserved the 1868 Aberdeenshire September Little Bittern.
Mitchell, David William (1813 - 1859) Penzance, Cornwall. London.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1839 Cornwall Rose-coloured Starling. Shot and owned the 1840 Scilly Pectoral Sandpiper and informed Yarrell.
Biography Fellow of the Linnean Society. Oxford graduate. After his marriage in 1837 they moved to Cornwall.
Robinson (2003) says: 'Mid-19th century Penzance collector and dealer in skins and eggs, and one-time Secretary of the Zoological Society, 1847-59.'
Mitchell, Frederick Shaw (1850 - 15/02/1929) Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Misidentified the c.1860 Lancashire Sociable Plover. Owned the 1872 Lancashire Wallcreeper. Examined the 1883 Lancashire Kirkham Great Snipe.
Biography Author of Birds of Lancashire, 1885, 1892. The 2nd edition by Howard Saunders. Emigrated to British Columbia, Canada.
Obituary Ibis 1929: 354, 530.
Mitchell, William ( - ) Winchelsea, Sussex.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the c.1886 Sussex Wallcreeper.
Mitchelson, James M. ( - ) The Hall, Pickering, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1895 Yorkshire Great Snipe.
Mitford, Edward ( - ) Hunmanby Vicarage, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1909 Yorkshire Glossy Ibis.
Mitford, jun. ( - ) London.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1876 London Two-barred Crossbill.
Mitford, Admiral Robert (1781 - 1870) Hunmanby Hall, Filey, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw the 1819 Northumberland Nutcracker. His keeper shot the rejected 1849 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl.
Biography Brother of P. J. Selby and in the Royal Navy.
Mitford, Robert ( - ) St Leonards, Sussex.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1877 Sussex Roller.
Mitford, R. S. ( - ) South Kensington, London.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1911 Hampshire Alpine Swift.
Moir ( - ) Tarty, North-east Scotland.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1880 Northeast Scotland Glossy Ibis.
Moline, Robert ( - ) 11, Church Street, Godalming, Surrey.
Bird Notes Owned the pre1837 Surrey Bee-eater was shot in his garden.
Moll, G. M. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1947 Sussex Pectoral Sandpipers.
Mollison, Thomas ( - ) Montrose, Angus.
Bird Notes Recorded the pre1835 Angus White Stork. Recorded the rejected pre1852 Angus & Dundee Spotted Sandpiper.
Monement, W. Bolding ( - ) Weybourne, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1887 Norfolk Night Heron. Shot the 1905 Norfolk Great Snipe.
Monk, T. J. (c.1829 - 22/12/1899) Mountfield House, Lewes, Sussex.
Bird Notes Owned the 1863 Sussex Crested Lark. Owned the 1864 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Owned the 1864 Sussex Little Bunting. Owned the 1865 Sussex Richard's Pipit. Recorded and owned the 1866 Sussex Serin. Recorded the rejected 1866 Sussex Red-winged Blackbird. Recorded and owned the 1867 Sussex Rustic Bunting. Recorded the 1867 Sussex Great Snipe. Recorded the 1867 Sussex Richard's Pipit. Recorded and owned the 1868 Sussex Black-throated Thrush. Owned the 1869 Sussex White-winged Lark. Owned the 1869 Sussex Common Rosefinch. Recorded the 1870 Sussex Roller. Owned the 1870 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Recorded and owned the 1882 Sussex Gyr Falcon. Owned the rejected 1888 Sussex Purple Heron. Owned the rejected pre1890 Sussex Pine Grosbeak.
Obituary Ibis 1900: 402.
Montagu Leeds, W. H. ( - ) Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
Bird Notes Picked up and recorded the 1917 Pembrokeshire Glossy Ibis.
Montagu, Col. George (08/06/1753 - 28/08/1815) Knowle Cottage, near Kingsbridge, Devon.
Bird Notes Saw the five rejected 1774 Sussex Laughing Gulls. Shot and owned the 1802 Sussex Gull-billed Tern. Saw the two 1802-13 Sussex Gull-billed Terns. Owned the 1804 Dorset American Bittern. Examined the 1804 Devon Little Bustard. Owned and recorded the 1805 Devon Cattle Egret. Owned and recorded the 1805 Devon Glossy Ibis. Owned the 1809 Devon Glossy Ibis. Recorded the 1814 Somerset Black Stork.
Biography Alfred Newton (1876-82 (2): 29) in Yarrell's British Birds, in a footnote says: 'In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1815 (lxxxv, pt. 2, p. 281) it is stated that Montagu died on the 28th August and in his sixty-fourth year, but the Editor learns from Mr. Cunnington (through the kindness of their common friend Mr. A. C. Smith) that the authority for the date and age here given in the text rests upon a manuscript by Montagu's daughter, Mrs. Crawford, and may therefore well be trusted.'
William Leach in 1816, recommended that the British Museum buy Montagu’s reference collection of British species at a cost of £1,200. By 1833 most of them were falling to pieces according to an inspection by MacGillivray; indeed it proved a poor investment.
Penhallurick (1978) says: 'Montagu was a Wiltshire naturalist of considerable merit. His Dictionary of British Birds (1802, Supplement, 1813), the first work of its kind, contains many references to Cornwall where he had friends and where he was on official military business from May 1796 to July 1797. The diary of his Cornish tour is preserved at the British Museum (Natural History). Soon afterwards he resigned his commission and settled at Knowle Cottage near Kingsbridge.
See Jenks (2004: 63-78) for a detailed work, also Birds of Wiltshire (2007: 75-77).
Montgomery, B. K. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the six 1945 Norfolk Glossy Ibis. Saw the two 1945 Cambridgeshire Black-winged Stilts. Saw the breeding 1945 Nottinghamshire Black-winged Stilts. Saw the 1946 Nottinghamshire White-winged Black Tern.
Moody, A. F. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1936 Northamptonshire White-tailed Eagle.
Moon, Harold J. (1875 - 29/10/1943) Patterdale, Westmoreland, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Examined the 1929 Cumbria Red-footed Falcon.
Obituary British Birds 37: 211.
Moor, Edward J. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1815 Suffolk Great Bustard. Recorded the 1824 Norfolk three Great Bustards. Saw the 1875 Suffolk Gyr Falcon.
Moore, Dr. Edward (c. 1790 - 1858) Plymouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1798 Devon Great Bustard. Recorded the two 1799 Devon Great Bustards. Recorded the 1804 Devon Little Bustard. Recorded the 1805 Devon Cattle Egret. Recorded the rejected 1805 Devon Great White Egret. Recorded the three 1808 Devon Little Bitterns. Recorded the 1808 Devon Little Crake. Recorded the 1810 Devon Little Bustard. Recorded the 1820 Devon Little Bustard. Recorded the rejected 1824 Devon Purple Heron. Recorded the 1826 Devon Common Crane. Recorded the 1828 Devon Red-breasted Goose. Owned and recorded the 1829 Devon American Bittern. Recorded the 1829 Devon Little Crake. Recorded the rejected 1830 Devon Harlequin Duck. Recorded the three c.1830 Devon Glossy Ibis. Recorded the 1831 Cornwall Black Stork. Recorded the 1831 Devon Little Crake. Recorded the 1832 Devon White-tailed Eagle. Recorded and examined the 1834 Cornwall Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1835 Devon Little Bittern. Recorded the rejected 1836 Devon Purple Heron. Recorded the 1837 Devon Red-breasted Goose. Recorded the three pre 1837 Devon White Storks. Recorded the pre 1837 Devon White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the c.1837 Devon Dowicher sp.
Biography M. D. at Edinburgh. Secretary of the Plymouth Institution. Recorded some records that lacked details in papers 1830 and 1837.
Moore, John ( - )
Bird Notes Presented the 1830 Northumberland White-tailed Eagle.
Moore, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1912 Cheshire Night Heron.
Moore, Norman W. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1941 Sussex Aquatic Warbler. Saw the 1941 Sussex Baillon's Crake.
Moore, Thomas John (1824 - 31/10/1892) Liverpool, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Recorded the three 1859 Caernarfonshire Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Biography Born in London. Curator of the Free Public and Derby Museum, Liverpool.
Obituary Naturalist 1893: 49-54.
Moorhouse, Sydney ( - ) Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1940 Cumbria Gyr Falcon.
Morcom, G. ( - ) Woodford, Plympton, Devon.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1943 Devon White-tailed Eagle.
More, Alexander Goodman (05/09/1830 - 22/03/1895) Isle of Wight; 74, Leinster Road, Dublin, Dublin.
Bird Notes Recorded and identified the 1851 Warwickshire Upland Sandpiper. Recorded the 1855 Wight Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1856 Wight Woodchat Shrike. Recorded the 1858 Wight Squacco Heron. Recorded the 1858 Wight Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the rejected pre1865 Highland Brünnich's Guillemot. Examined the 1882 Lancashire Surf Scoter. Examined the 1886 Wight Roller.
Biography Curator at Dublin Natural History Museum. One of the greatest living authorities on Irish birds of his day. Became Assistant Keeper of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, (now National Museum of Ireland) in 1867, then Keeper in 1881, but was forced by illness to retire in 1887. See Zoologist 1887: 335-336. See Moffatt (1898) Life and Letters of Alexander Goodman More.
Obituary Ibis 1895: 410-411; Irish Naturalist 4: 109-113; Irish Naturalist 7: 101-104; Zoologist 1895: 144-147
Morgan, Rev. Hanmer ( - ) Cowbridge, Glamorganshire.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1885 Glamorganshire Little Bustard.
Biography Rector of St Athan, Cowbridge.
Morgan, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1875 Warwickshire Great Snipe.
Morley, John ( - ) King Street, Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the c. 1886 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded the 1889 Yorkshire Red-breasted Flycatcher. Preserved the 1890 Yorkshire Alpine Swift. Recorded the rejected 1908 Yorkshire Great Bustard.
Morres, Rev. Arthur P. (1816 - 1885) Wokingham, Berkshire; Britford Vicarage, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Identified the 1889 Suffolk Tengmalm's Owl. Saw and recorded the five rejected 1889 Wiltshire White-winged Black Terns. Identified the rejected 1897 Hampshire Little Bustard.
Biography See the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. 38. pp. 110-111 for the sale of his bird collection.
Morrey Salmon, H. ( - )
Bird Notes Examined the 1908 Gwent Dark-breasted Barn Owl.
Morris ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1852 Yorkshire Rock Thrush.
Morris, Beverley Robinson ( - ) York, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1818 Devon Bee-eater. Recorded the pre1834 Dorset Bee-eater. Recorded the 1847 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded the 1850 Yorkshire Purple Heron. Recorded the 1852 Yorkshire Black Stork on the authority of his brother.
Biography Editor of The Naturalist. Brother of the Rev. F. O. Morris.
Morris, Rev. Francis Orpen (25/03/1810 - 10/02/1893) Nunburnholme, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1846 Yorkshire White Stork. Recorded the 1847 Yorkshire Purple Heron. Recorded the rejected 1863 Lincolnshire Pectoral Sandpiper.
Biography Rector. Born at Cove in Ireland. Brother of B. R. Morris. National author of History of British Birds (1851-57).
Morris, Robert ( - ) Eastbourne, Sussex.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1888 Sussex Little Bittern. Saw the 1921 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Saw the two 1921 Sussex Northern Long-tailed Tits. Saw the 1922 Sussex Northern Long-tailed Tit. Saw the rejected 1923 Sussex Lesser Grey Shrike. Saw the 1928 Sussex Tawny Pipit.
Morris, Richard ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1864/65 Yorkshire Bufflehead. Shot the 1869 Yorkshire Red-footed Falcon.
Morris, T. ( - ) Wycombe, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1851 Leicestershire White Stork.
Mortimer ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1900 Norfolk Broad-billed Sandpiper.
Mortimer ( - ) Reydon, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1876 Suffolk Roller.
Mortimer, L. ( - ) Holmwood, Surrey.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the three 1908 Surrey Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Moser, H. ( - ) Christchurch, Dorset.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1879 Dorset Night Heron. Recorded the 1882 Dorset Red-footed Falcon.
Moses, J. W. ( - ) St Asaph, Flintshire.
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1840 Flintshire Richard's Pipit.
Moses, Robert ( - ) Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1840 Flintshire Richard's Pipit.
Mosley, Ashton Nicholas ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1797 Derbyshire Little Bustard.
Mosley, Sir Oswald ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the two rejected 1859 Derbyshire Red-eyed Vireos.
Mosley, Seth Lister (1848 - 1929) Primrose Hill, Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Found and recorded the rejected 1877 Yorkshire Red-winged Blackbird. The 1881 Yorkshire Alpine Swift was brought to him. Recorded the rejected pre 1877 Yorkshire Laughing Gull.
Biography Worked at the Science Department, South Kensington, London.
Obituary Naturalist 1929: 151-153.
Moss ( - ) Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1837 Herefordshire Night Heron. Owned the 1852 Herefordshire Cream-coloured Courser. Owned the rejected pre1888 Herefordshire Little Bustard.
Moss, M. H. (- )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1945 Caernarvonshire Rose-coloured Starling.
Mossop, John ( - ) Covenham, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Caught and owned the c.1840 Lincolnshire Cream-coloured Courser.
Mostyn, E. H. ( - ) Saethelwydd, Flintshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1836 Flintshire Little Bittern. Shot the rejected pre1856 Cheshire Alpine Swift. Shot the 1857 Flintshire Roller.
Mostyn, Sir Pyers ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the c.1836 Flintshire Little Bittern.
Mott, William ( - ) Christchurch, Dorset.
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected 1836 Dorset American Bittern.
Mouat, Robbie ( - ) Brakefield, Unst, Shetland.
Bird Notes Saw the 1927 Shetland Roller.
Mowbray, Joseph ( - ) Brampton, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Owned the 1854 Cumbria Great Bustard.
Biography Innkeeper.
Muckin, William ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1866 Greater London ? Richard's Pipit.
Mucklow, E. ( - ) Castle Head, Grange-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1876 Cumbria Purple Swamphen.
Muirhead, George (1845 - 29/01/1928) Fochabers, Moray; Paxton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Berwickshire, Borders.
Bird Notes Examined the 1848 Borders White Stork.
Biography Ornithologist. Author of county avifauna of Berwickshire.
Obituary Ibis 1928: 325-327.
Mullens, William Herbert (28/11/1866 - ) Westfield Place, Battle, Sussex.
Bird Notes Examined the HR 1912 Sussex Lesser Grey Shrike. Presented one of the three HR 1915 Sussex Sociable Lapwings to Hastings Museum. Saw and recorded the 1919 Kent Black-winged Stilt. Saw and recorded the 1919 Kent Tawny Pipit.
Biography Joint author of national bibliography. His collection of local birds passed to the Hastings Museum.
Mumford ( - ) Surrey.
Bird Notes Killed the 1841 Surrey Alpine Swift.
Mummery, Stephen ( - ) 3, Back Road, Margate and 8, Cecil Street, Margate, Kent.
Bird Notes Recorded and shot the rejected 1840 Kent Richard's Pipit. Recorded the 1841 Kent Cream-coloured Courser. Obtained the 1841 Orkney Bufflehead which was proved to have been brought in from abroad. Shot the 1841 Kent Woodchat Shrike. Recorded the 1842 Kent Great Snipe. Recorded the rejected 1843 Kent Spotted Sandpiper. Shot one and saw one of the 1844 Kent Rose-coloured Starlings.
Biography Unreliable. Curator at Margate Museum. Bought specimens for Margate Museum. His honesty has been questioned by Pemberton Bartlett in the Zoologist for 1844 (Ticehurst, 1909).
Munn, Philip W. (1865 - c.1946) Laverstoke, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1910 Hampshire Great Bustard. Recorded the 1911 Hampshire Madeiran Storm-petrel.
Biography Bank Manager. Joint author of county avifauna of Hampshire.
Munro, Ian (1910 - 1996) Colinton, Lothian.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1910 Hampshire Great Bustard.
Obituary Scottish Birds 18: 188-189.
Munro, John ( - ) Marybank Lodge, Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Informed Robert Gray of the 1867 Outer Hebrides Snowy Owl.
Biography Keeper.
Munro, J. H. B. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1936 Isle of May White-spotted Bluethroat. Examined the 1936 Isle of May Yellow-breasted Bunting. Saw and recorded the 1948 Pectoral Sandpiper.
Munro, R. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1881 Dorset Pied-billed Grebe.
Murie, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1906 Suffolk Flamingo.
Murray ( - ) Leeds, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Sold the 1895 Yorkshire American Wigeon.
Biography Game dealer.
Murray Marsden, W. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1940 Hertfordshire White-winged Lark.
Murray, Alexander ( - )
Bird Notes Trapped the 1888 Moray & Nairn Gyr Falcon.
Murray, Albert J. ( - c.1960) Carnforth, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Identified the 1949 Greater Manchester Whiskered Tern.
Biography Son of H. Murray
Murray, Frederick ( - ) Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1876 Oxfordshire Little Bittern.
Murray, jun., Andrew ( - ) Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1867 Northeast Scotland Killdeer.
Musgrave, Bart., Sir Richard ( - ) Edenhall, Penrith, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Owned the c.1850 Cumbria Purple Heron. Owned the 1865 Cumbria Gyr Falcon.
Musgrave, Sir George ( - ) Edenhall, Penrith, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Owned the 1845 Cumbria Squacco Heron. Owned the 1865 Cumbria Gyr Falcon.
Muskett ( - ) Hingham, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1875 Norfolk Purple Heron.
Mussell, George ( - ) Redcar and Middlesborough, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1869 Cleveland White-winged Black Tern. Preserved the misidentified 1881 Cleveland Blue-winged Teal.
Biography Was the taxidermist for T. H. Nelson.
Mussel-White, D. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and reported the 1909 Norfolk Alpine Swift.
Musters, George ( - ) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1896 Nottinghamshire White-tailed Eagle. Saw the nine 1899 Norfolk Common Cranes. Shot and owned the 1901 Norfolk Red-breasted Flycatcher. Shot the 1906 Norfolk Flamingo.
Mutch ( - ) Aberdeen, North-east Scotland.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1924 Northeast Scotland White Stork.
Mutton ( - ) Plymouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Preserved a rejected pre 1876 Devon King Eider.
Mylne, C. K. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1945 Yorkshire Snowy Owl. Recorded the 1946 Lothian Barred Warbler.