1-24 KECOKDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



About a mile faither on, at La Perouse, the remains of Pere le 

 Keceveur are buried, and a memorial erected to his memory. He 

 -was one of the naturalists in the French Expedition, under the 

 command of the illustrious, but ill-fated La Perouse, and died on 

 the 17th February, 1788. 



Three years after Lewin's decease a re-issue was published in 

 London, in 1822, entitled "A Natural Histoiy of the Birds of 

 New 8outh Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted 

 after Nature, by Jolm AV'illiam Lewin, A.L.S., late of Parramatta, 

 New 8outh Wales.'' It contained twenty-six plates, being eight 

 more than in the original edition published by Lewin in 1808. 

 Tlie watermark on the plates of the 1822 edition is J. Whatman 

 1S22, and on the paper of the accompanying letterpress the same 

 maker's name, with date 1821. All the species are described under 

 vernacular names only. There is a copy of tliis edition in the 

 Australian ^Museum Library, also one purporting to be of the 

 same issue and date, l:)ut the watermark on the plates is 1875 ! 

 Attention has alreadv been drawn to tliis issue in circulation in a 

 liookseller's descriptive catalogue. The Museum copy of the 1822 

 edition could never have been "painted after nature" by Lewin, 

 for the base of the forehead and sides of the head of the Crested 

 tShiike are painted yellow, where tlie}^ should be white. 



A second re-issue bearing the same title was published in 

 London in 1838, nineteen years after Lewin's death. A copy of 

 this work has been kindh^ lent me for examination by the Hon. 

 Dr. Jas. Norton, M.L.C. Below the title is as follows : " New 

 and improved edition, to which is added a list of the ' synonymes ' 

 of each species, incorporating the labours of 'T." Gould, Esq., N. 

 A. Vigors, Esq., J. Horsfield, M.D. and W. 8wainson, Esq." The 

 plates are far more accurately coloured than in the genuine 1822 

 edition, and bear the watermark of 1838. The watermark on 

 the explanation of plates is 1821. Although two pages of 

 synonyms compiled by Eyton follow the title pages, all the species 

 appear under Lewin's vernacular names. In the " Catalogue of 

 Birds in tlie British ]Museum,"'' Dr. H. Gadow gives a reference 

 '^Cn-thui fidvifrvHs, Lewin, Bds. N.8.W., pi. 22 (1838)." This 

 reference cannot be attributed to Lewin, who had been dead for 

 so many years. Both in the 1822 and 1838 editions this species 

 is referred to in tlie Explanation to Plate xxii. as the " VVhite- 

 l)reasted Honey-sucker," and by Eyton in the 1838 edition as 

 (T'li/cij/hi/o/nfri/roits. Moreover, Lewin is not the authority for 

 the specific name of Ghjciphiht fulvifroux, but Vigors and Hors- 



■'■ (liidow - Cat. Binls Brit. Miis., ix., 1H8-!, ]>. 210. 



