Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk

book is very rare and unfortunately at present beyond the reach of most

modern students. No attempt at systematic arrangement, as now understood, was made until the _Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux_ of Pierre Belon (Bellonius) appeared at Paris in 1555, for the much greater work of Conrad Gesner, being the third book of his _Historia Animalium_, which was published at Zurich in th...