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field, who (lescrihed this species in the '• 'rransaetions (if the 

 Linneau .Societv,"' in ISi'f?, under tlie name of J/'///*//'/'/" 

 fiiJrifrons. 



Altliough 1 have never lieard of one, there may he eojiies of 

 Iv 'will's original work in private libraries in Australia, more 

 especially in New .South Wales, the early settlers in Sydney 

 subscribing between them for sixty-seven copies. Only six copies 

 were subscribed for in London. The Melbourne and Adelaide 

 Public Libraries, T \vA\e been informed by their respecti\e 

 Librarians, do not possess a co})y. With a manuscript title-i>age 

 bearing the date of publication as 1S13 ! and without an index, 

 there is one in the Sydney Public Library, presumably an 

 authentic copy of the original edition. Tt has, howevei', Ijeeii 

 reduced in size, both in the letterpress and the size of the jilates, 

 tlie latter eighteen in number, the same as in the first issue, being 

 cut oft' close to the tinted background, doing away at the same 

 time with the engraver's name and date. The numbers on the 

 plates are marked in with pencil, and the accompanying letter- 

 press is under the vernacular names only. The plates are crudely 

 coloured and the watermark thereon is G. Ansell 1<^09. The 

 male of Pachijcfphda (initnrnlls, which is figured under the name 

 of "Orange-breast Thrush," has the throat erroneously coloui'ed 

 yellow instead of white, a glaring mistake wliich could liardly 

 have been perpetrated by Lewin. 



Mr. J. J. Fletcher, the Secretary of the Linneaii Society of 

 New South Wales, to who I am indel)ted for some early 

 references to Lewin, has also kindly brought under my iK»tice 

 three original drawings of Lewin's in the possession (»f the 

 Society. Thev were the property of the late Sir William ]Macleay. 

 The species figured are Oru/ma rnhrlcata, Fachycphnln Difivittris, 

 and Pachywphaht tjuffuralis. All are under vernacular names 

 only, and the watermark on tlie paper on one of the m.s. 

 explanations of the plates is "A. Stace 1798." 



JOHN GILBERT. 



(Plate xxvii.). 



The labours of John Gilbert are so well known, find 

 so closely interwoven in connection with those of .lolni 

 G(iuld in the hitter's great work on '' The Birds of 

 Australia," that it is unnecessary to enter into l)ut few 

 details relative to the accompanving ]ilate. fJilbert had 

 been for nianv vears in tlie emplovment of the Zoological 



