Dates of the 'Planches coloriees.' 485 



*LlMOSA BELGICA. 



There were many Black-tailed Godwits on the shores of 

 the Etang Le Taute on the 23rd of September. The species 

 is of double passage in the region. 



NUMENIUS ARQUATA. 



The Curlew is a bird of double passage in the Camargue, 

 and was common during the period covered by our visit. 

 Jaubert and Bartlielemy-Lapommeraye say (p. 473) that a 

 few nest in the Camargue; but although we saw a number 

 on the shores of the Golfe de Fos on the 30th of May, 1894, 

 we had no suspicion that the species was breeding in the Delta 

 that season. 



XLII. — On the Dates of Temminck and Laugier's ' Planches 

 coloriSes.' By C. Davies Sherborn. 



In 'The Ibis^ for 1868 (p. 500) Mr. G. R. Crotch gave a 

 list of the dates of the livraisons of Temminck and Laugier's 

 ' Nouveau Eecueil des Planches colorides d'Oiseaux.' In- 

 formation, then unknown, has since come to my hand, 

 and Professor Newton has recently acquired an unbound 

 copy of the work, with several of the original wrappers 

 preserved. These wrappers, of which there were four 

 separate issues, and which are usually dated " 182-/^ have 

 furnished valuable facts, and have largely assisted this 

 revised compilation. Ferussac^s 'Bulletin general' (1823), 

 and its continuation, the ' Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles 

 et de Geologic' (1824-31), provide much of the matter upon 

 which the present statement is prepared, and this in its 

 turn is supplemented by the Donation Book of the Linnean 

 Society of London, which has so frequently been of service 

 in my bibliographic enquiries. 



The accuracy of the present determinations up to and 

 including livraison 55 is proved in a curious manner bv a 

 footnote in Ferussac, Bull. ii. (1824) p. 293, where the 

 reviewer, Jean Rene Constantin Quoy, notes the date of 

 the livraison containing the new generic word Megajwdivs 



