Author:Edmund Selous

Edmund Selous
(1857–1934)

Works

• 1899 – Tommy Smith’s Animals. Methuen: London
• 1901a – Beautiful Birds Dent: London (external scan)
• 1901b — The Old Zoo and the New
• —— (1901c). Bird Watching. London: Dent. ; first edition published as part of the Haddon Hall Library, with illustrations by Joseph Smit and Arthur Rackham
• 1905 – Bird Life Glimpses. George Allen.
• 1905 – The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, with some notes on seals – and digressions. London : Dent. With illustrations by Joseph Smit
• 1905 – The Romance of the Animal World - Interesting Descriptions of the Strange and Curious in the Natural History. Seeley & Co: London.
• 1906 – The Romance of Insect Life - Interesting Descriptions of the Strange and Curious in the Insect World. Seeley & Co: London. (external scan)
• 1906 – Tommy Smith’s Other Animals. Methuen: London.
• 1910 – Jacks’s Insects. Methuen: London.
• 1911 – The Zoo Conversation Book. Mills & Boon: London.
• 1911 – The Wonders of the Insect World. Philadelphia : Lippincott. (external scan)
• 1912 – The Zoo Conversation Book – Hughie's Second Visit. Mills & Boon: London.
• 1916 – The Wonders of Animal Life. Seeley Service: London.
• 1919 – Tommy Smith at the Zoo. Methuen: London.
• 1920 – Jacks’s Other Insects. Methuen: London.
• 1921 – The Wonders of Animal Life. Seeley Service: London.
• 1922 – Tommy Smith’s Birds. Methuen: London.
• 1927 – Realities of Bird Life, being extracts from the diaries of a life-loving naturalist. Constable & Co: London.
• 1931 – Thought-transference (or what?) in birds. Constable & Co: London.
• 1933 – Evolution of Habit in Birds. Constable & Co: London.

Contributions to The Zoologist

• Selous, Edmund (1899). "An Observational Diary of the Habits of Nightjars (Caprimulgus europæus), Mostly of a Sitting Pair. Notes Taken at Time and on Spot". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 3. 
  ⁠Published in two parts:
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of Nightjars (Part 1)". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 699, September): 388–402. 1899. 
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of Nightjars (Part 2)". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 701, November): 486–505. 1899. 

• —— (1900). "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Plover (Œdicnemus crepitans) during September and October". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 4. 
  ⁠Published in three parts:
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Plover (Part 1)". The Zoologist. 4 4 (issue 706, April): 173–185. 1900. 
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Plover (Part 2)". The Zoologist. 4 4 (issue 708, June): 270–277. 1900. 
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Plover (Part 3)". The Zoologist. 4 4 (issue 712, October): 458–476. 1900. 

• —— (1901–1902). "An Observational Diary of the Habits—Mostly Domestic—of the Great Crested Grebe (Podicipes cristatus) [and of the Peewit (Vanellus vulgaris), with Some General Remarks]". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 5 and vol 6. 
  ⁠Published in four parts:
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Part 1)". The Zoologist. 4 5 (issue 719, May): 161–183. 1901. 
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Crested Grebe and the Peewit (Part 2)". The Zoologist. 4 5 (issue 723, September): 339−350. 1901. 
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Crested Grebe and the Peewit (Part 3)". The Zoologist. 4 5 (issue 726, December): 454–462. 1901. 
  • "An Observational Diary of the Habits of the Great Crested Grebe and the Peewit (Part 4)". The Zoologist. 4 6 (issue 730, April): 133–144. 1902. 
    ⁠See also: Howard, H.E.—'On Mr. Selous' Theory of the Origin of Nests' (in issue 730 (April, 1902), p. 145–148).
• —— (1902). "Note on the Pairing of Moor-hens". The Zoologist. 4 6 (issue 731, May—section 'Notes and Queries'): 197–198. 
• —— (1902). "Variations in Colouring of Stercorarius crepidatus". The Zoologist. 4 6 (issue 736, October): 368–373. 
  ⁠See also: W. Storrs Fox's short comment (in issue 737 (November, 1902), p. 439–440).

• —— (1912). "An Observational Diary on the Domestic Habits of the Red-throated Diver (Colymbus septentrionalis)". The Zoologist. 4 16.  (issue 849, March, pp. 81–96; issue 851, May, pp. 171–180; issue 852, June, pp. 210–219) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

• —— (1913–1916). "A Diary of Ornithological Observations made in Iceland during June and July, 1912". The Zoologist. 4. 17–20.  (in 13 parts: 1) issue 860, February 1913, pp. 57–66; 2) issue 861, March 1913, pp. 92–104; 3) issue 862, April 1913, pp. 129–136; 4) issue 866, August 1913, pp. 294–313; 5) issue 869, November 1913, pp. 409–422; 6) issue 872, February 1914, pp. 63–74; 7) issue 876, June 1914, pp. 213–225; 8) issue 884, February 1915, pp. 58–66; 9) issue 887, May 1915, pp. 169–174; 10) issue 890, August 1915, pp. 303–307; 11) issue 896, February 1916, pp. 54–68; 12) issue 898, April 1916, pp. 139–152; 13) issue 901, July 1916, pp. 267–272; although this last part finishes with "to be continued", no further parts have appeared in The Zoologist) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)

Works about Selous

• Review of Selous 1901c in: [W.L. Distant] (1901). "Bird Watching. By Edmund Selous". The Zoologist. 4 5 (issue 724, October—section 'Notices of New Books'): 394–395.