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South Wales, witli I heir Natural History,' by Jolm WiHiam Lcwin, 

 A.L.S., &c., &c. N.B. — This work will be sent to England by His 

 Majesty's ship Buffalo, under care of a gentleman, for immediate 

 publication. The terms of subscription are : — Half the subscription 

 money to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the other half on 

 the delivery of the work." (The subscription for the bird volume 

 was £2 2s.) 



1808. — By advertisement, " Mr. J. Lewin begs to acquaint the 

 officers, civil and military, and their ladies, who honoured with their 

 names the list of subscribers to his intended work entitled ' The 

 Birds of New South Wales, with their Natural History,' that he has 

 received advice .... regarding the transmittal of the first 

 volume subscribed for liere." 



There were 18 plates in this issue, and a copy in Sydney l^ublic 

 Library is dated 1813 [?]. There were re-issues in 1822 and 1838, 

 with 8 additional plates, namely : — Scarlet Creeper, White-eared Honey- 

 sucker, Crested Flycatcher, White-breasted Honey-sucker, Yellow- 

 breasted Thrush, iSlack-crowned Honey-sucker, Common Creeper, 

 and Crested Shrike. 



1807. — Cassowaries, Peron, Atlas, part v., pi. 36, 41 ; 1824, pi. 

 66, 67. 



1824. — Anatomical Structure of the Cassowary of New Holland 

 {Casuarius novcs-hollandia;) , by Robert Knox. — Edin. Phil. Journ., 

 X., pp. 132-140. 



1825. — Description of Psittacus fieldi, a New Species of Parrot from 

 Australia. By Wm. Swainson. — Quart. Journ. Sci., xix., pp. 198- 

 200. Also, by same author, " Characters and Affinities of Several 

 New Birds from Australia." — Zool. Journ., v., pp. 463-484. 



1826. — Description of the Australian Birds in the Collection of 

 the Linnean Society. By N. A. Vigors and Thomas Horsfield. — Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, xv., pp. 170-331. 



1826. — Zoologie du Voyage L'Uranie et La Physicienne includes 

 31 plates of birds. Quoy et Gaimard. 



1825-6. — Geographical Distribution of Certain Petrels. By R. P. 

 Lesson. 



1827. — Aves : a Collection presented to the Linnean Society. By 

 Phillip Parker King, R.N. — " Survey of Coasts of Australia," ii., 

 pp. 416-423. 



1833-4. — Ten Coloured Plates Parrots, &c. Two Expeditions by 

 Sturt. 



1831. — Habits of the ^l\\?,'k-T>nc\i {Hydvohates lobatns, Temm.) By 

 Lieut. Breton. — Pyoc. Zool. Soc, ii., pp. 19-23. 



1832-4. — Wanderings in New Soutfi Wales — Lyre-Bird, &c. By 

 Dr. George Bennett. 



1836. — We now arrive at Gould's first contributions to the Zoo- 

 logical Society's Proceedings — " On Australian Birds, with Characters 

 of the New Species." 



1837. — And his " Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Ad- 

 jacent Islands," part i. (44 species). 



In going through this great mosaic of references to Australian 

 ornithology, what forcibly strikes one is the vast amount of 

 research performed by private enterprise, or for adventure, if you 

 like, compared with what has and should have been done nation- 

 ally. Of course, such c.\])editions as those of Dampier, Cook, 

 Flinders, Stokes, and others were national, because subsidized by 



