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"Venator" ( - )

Bird Notes Recorded the 1875 Northamptonshire White-tailed Eagle.

Valender, ( - ) Wigan, Greater Manchester/Lancashire.

Bird Notes Shot the c. 1915 Lancashire Harlequin Duck.

Valentine, J. T. T. ( - ) Kensington, London.

Bird Notes Recorded the 1889 Derbyshire Little Bittern.

Valpy, R. A. ( - ) Berkshire.

Bird Notes Saw and recorded the six Berkshire White Storks.

Van Voorst, John (15/02/1804 - 24/07/1898) b. Highgate, London.

Bird Notes Owned the 1845 Devon Two-barred Crossbill.

Biography Publisher. Fellow of the Linnean Society from 1853.

Varenne ( - ) Kelvedon, Essex.

Bird Notes Saw the two rejected Pre1890 Essex Woodchat Shrikes.

Varley, G. C. ( - )

Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Suffolk Pectoral Sandpiper.

Varley, J. ( - ) Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

Bird Notes Recorded the 1874 Yorkshire Baillon's Crake. Recorded the 1873 Yorkshire Great Snipe.

Vaughan, Benjamin Kerr (1760 - 12/01/1847) Aveton Gifford, Devon.

Bird Notes Owned the two 1802-1813 Sussex Gull-billed Terns. Saw the rejected 1805 Devon Great White Egret. Presented the 1805 Devon Glossy Ibis to Montagu.

Biography Rector for 58 years of Aveton Gifford parish.

Venables Kyrke, A. ( - )

Bird Notes Recorded the escaped 1917 Kent Pelican.

Venables, L. S. V. & Venables, U. M. ( - ) Weisdale Voe, Mainland, Shetland.

Bird Notes Saw two 1936 Fair Isle Yellow-browed Warblers. Saw the 1936 Fair Isle Rock Thrush. Recorded and found the dead 1946 Shetland White-billed Diver. Saw and recorded the 1947 Shetland White-billed Diver. Saw the 1948 Fair Isle Yellow-browed Warbler. Saw the 1948 Fair Isle Common Rosefinch. Saw the 1948 Fair Isle Little Bunting.

Biography Authors of county avifauna.

Ventris, E. ( - ) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Bird Notes Recorded the 1835 Cambridgeshire Collared Pratincole.

Vernon, E. T. ( - 13/11/1967)

Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1945 Dumfries & Galloway Snowy Owl.

Vernon, H. ( - ) Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire.

Bird Notes His keeper shot the rejected 1858 Buckinghamshire Red-footed Falcon.

Vicary, W. ( - ) Newton Abbot, Devon.

Bird Notes Recorded the 1886 Devon Great Snipe.

Vicary, W. P. ( - ) Winterbourne Dauntsey, Wiltshire.

Bird Notes Saw the 1949 Fair Isle Albatross sp.

Vickers, T. E. ( - )

Bird Notes Shot the 1892 Derbyshire Great Snipe.

Vidler, A. ( - ) Pentonville, London; Pevensey, Sussex.

Bird Notes Preserved the 1851 Sussex White-tailed Eagle. Shot the rejected 1852 Sussex Ross's Gull. Sent the 1884 Sussex White Stork to T. H. Nelson.

Vidler, E. ( - ) Havelock Road, Hastings, Sussex.

Bird Notes Owned the 1891 Sussex Great Bustard.

Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1785 - 26/10/1840) b. near Carlow, Ireland. London.

Bird Notes Exhibited the 1837 Yorkshire Snowy Owl.

Biography Author. M.P. Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, 1826-32.

Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1748 - 1831) Yvetot, Normandy, France.

Biography He had a business on Haiti in the Caribbean, probably in spices. A number of birds were described by him: Pectoral Sandpiper, Wilson’s Phalarope, Long-tailed Skua, Iceland Gull, Leach’s Petrel, Richard’s Pipit, Cedar Waxwing and Scarlet Tanager to name a few.

Vincent, H. G. ( - )

Bird Notes Shot one of the three rejected 1919 Essex Harlequin Ducks.

Vincent, Jim (1883 - 03/11/1944) Hickling, Norfolk.

Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1906 Norfolk Yellow-browed Warbler. Saw the 1908 Norfolk Blakeney adult Red-breasted Flycatcher. Saw the 1912 Norfolk Squacco Heron. Saw the 1912 Norfolk Solitary Sandpiper. Saw the two 1918 Norfolk Caspian Terns. Saw the 1918 Norfolk Richard's Pipit. Saw the 1918 Norfolk Yellow-browed Warbler. Saw the rejected spring 1928 Norfolk Yellow-browed Warbler. Saw the 1929 Norfolk Little Bittern. Sent the 1931 Norfolk American Wigeon sent to Castle Museum, Norwich but not there in 1990. Saw the 1931 Norfolk Red-footed Falcon. Saw the 1931 Norfolk Common Crane. Saw the 1932 Norfolk Gull-billed Tern. Saw the 1933 Norfolk Whiskered Tern. Saw the rejected 1934 Norfolk Greater Spotted Eagle. Saw the 1941 Norfolk adult Red-breasted Flycatcher. Saw the 1942 Norfolk Squacco Heron. Saw the 1942 Norfolk Little Bittern. Saw the 1942 Norfolk Solitary Sandpiper.

Biography Warden.

Vingoe, E. ( - ) Cornwall.

Bird Notes Shot the 1871 Cornwall Lesser Yellowlegs. Shot the 1884 Cornwall Solitary Sandpiper.

Vingoe, W. H. (1808 - 1888) Penzance, Cornwall.

Bird Notes Owned the 1837 Oxfordshire Purple Heron. Shot and preserved the four 1843 Cornwall Richard's Pipits. Shot the two 1846 Cornwall Crested Larks. Preserved the 1848 Cornwall White Stork. Preserved the 1850 Cornwall Baillon's Crake. Shot and owned the 1853 Cornwall Least Sandpiper. Preserved and owned the 1853 Cornwall Roller. Preserved the 1853 Cornwall Rose-coloured Starling. Preserved the 1860 Cornwall Greater Spotted Eagle. Preserved the 1860 Cornwall Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Preserved the 1863 Scilly Pallas's Sandgrouse. Preserved the 1863 Scilly Red-breasted Flycatcher. Preserved the 1865 Scilly Surf Scoter. Preserved the 1867 Scilly Surf Scoter. Preserved the 1867 Cornwall Purple Heron. Preserved the 1869 Cornwall Little Bustard. Preserved the 1870 Cornwall White-rumped Sandpiper. Preserved the 1877 Cornwall Baillon's Crake. Preserved the 1880 Cornwall Crested Lark. Preserved the 1881 Scilly Common Crane. Preserved the 1882 Scilly Solitary Sandpiper. Preserved the 1882 Scilly White-winged Black Tern. Preserved the 1884 Cornwall Cream-coloured Courser. Owned the 1884 Cornwall Solitary Sandpiper. Preserved the 1884 Scilly White's Thrush. Preserved the 1885 Scilly Killdeer. Preserved the 1886 Scilly White's Thrush. Owned the 1887 Cornwall Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

Biography Preserved E. H. Rodd’s collection.

Vipan, J. A. ( - )

Bird Notes Saw the 1886 Norfolk Surf Scoter.

Volk, B. G. ( - )

Bird Notes Saw the two 1948 Sussex Pectoral Sandpipers.

von Hügel, A. ( - ) Stonyhurst, Lancashire; Torquay, Devon; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Bird Notes Recorded the 1872 Dorset Gull-billed Tern. Recorded and saw the 1874 Devon Crested Tit.

Vores ( - ) Lymington, Hampshire.

Bird Notes Shot the 1892 Hampshire Ruddy Shelduck.

Voysey, J. ( - ) Kent.

Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1945 Kent White-rumped Sandpiper.

Vyse, H. H. ( - ) Stoke Place, near Slough, Buckinghamshire.

Bird Notes Recorded the introduced 1888-92 Buckinghamshire Ruddy Shelducks.