A discourse on the emigration of British birds, or, This question at last solv'd : whence come the stork and the turtle, the crane and the swallow, when they know and observe the appointed time of their coming? Containing a curious...account of the ...birds of passage... To which are added, reflections on... the annual migration of birds! / By a naturalist

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Notes: "This day is published, Peter Pindar's works..." p.[xvi].; There were several eds. according to Mullens & Swan Bibl. of Brit. Ornith.: Salisbury, 1780; London, n.d., ie, 1780; Lond, 1795; Lond, 1814; & i̲n̲ A thousand notable things, on various subjects... Lond, 1827. Authorship is variously attrib. to John Legg (or Legge) of Market Lavington, Geo. Edwards the famous naturalist, Geo. Edwards "of Market Lavington," & (in MS on a copy of 2d ed. [1780] in this library) "Mr. White." M&S suggests the author borrowed part of his title & descript. of woodcock from An essay towards the probable solution of the question whence came the stork and the turtle...1703 (which M&S attrib. to Roberts, Hon. Francis, pNUC to Morton, Charles, 1627-1698)