John Ray, The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick (1678)
Date
1678
Author
Lexicon title
CHAP. IX. A Catalogue of English Birds, as well of such as abide here all the year, and never change place, as of such, which at set times come and go, which we call Birds of passage.
Book title
The Ornithology Of Francis Willughby Of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books: Wherein All the Birds Hither To Known, Being reduced into a Method sutable to their Natures, are accurately described. The Descriptions illustrated by most Elegant Figures, nearly resembling the live Birds, Engraven in LXXVIII Copper Plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added, Three Considerable Discourses, I. Of the Art of Fowling: With a Description of several Nets in two large Copper Plates. II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds.
III. Of Falconry
Publication place
London
Printer
A. C.
Publisher
John Martyn
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- fauna
- hawking and hunting
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
21-29
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The BITTOUR, or Bittern, called in the North of England the Mire-drum, whose drumming note (saith Mr. Johnson) I have in an Evening heard a mile off. Ardea stellaris, sive Taurus. This, I suppose, is the Bird which the Vulgar call the Night-Raven, and have a great dread of. It builds upon the ground, and lays four or five Eggs.
sample: The BITTOUR, or Bittern, called in the North of England the Mire-drum, whose drumming note (saith Mr. Johnson) I have in an Evening heard a mile off. Ardea stellaris, sive Taurus. This, I suppose, is the Bird which the Vulgar call the Night-Raven, and have a great dread of. It builds upon the ground, and lays four or five Eggs.
Wing
W2880
Criticisms
Cram, David. "John Ray and Francis Willughby: Universal Language Schemes and the Foundations of Linguistic Field Research." Understanding the Historiography of Linguistics. Ed. Werner Hüllen. Münster: Nodus, 1990. 229-39.
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