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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1837-1839 625 



1837. TOWNSEND, S. K.~ Continued. 



Bead Nov. 15, 1?36. Sialia occidentals, Fringilla orcgana, p. 188; F.Ucolor, 

 Plectrophanes ornata, p. 189 ; Parus rufescens, P. minimus, Sylvia occidentalis, p. 

 190 ; nigrescent, S. auduboni, S. townsendi il Nutt.", p. 191 ; Orpheus montanus, 

 Charadrius montanus (quotes AUDUB., Ora. Biog., pi. 350), p. 192. Concludes with 

 a list of 7;i spp., " prepared by the Ornithological Committee" , from the Colum- 

 bia IJiver. 



1838. [ANON.] Reise des Prinzen Maximilian von Wied durch Nordamerica. 



Coblenz bey Holscher. 1838. Heft 3. 4. 4. Bogen 13-33. 8 Tafeln 

 in Fol. < Oken J 8 Ms, Bd. xxxi, 1838, pp. 794-796. 



1838. BONAPARTE, C. L. A | Geographical and Comparative | List | of the | 

 Birds | of | Europe and North America. | | By Charles Lucian Bo- 

 naparte, | Prince of Musignano. | | London : | John Van Voorst, 

 7, Paternoster-Row. | 1838. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. vii, 67. 



Systematic list of names, with a few references and indication of habitata, in 

 parallel columns. European, 503 spp. ; American, 471 sp. European, not North 

 American, 403 ; American, not European, 371; 100 spp. thus peculiar to each 

 country. The list was much uped and quoted, especially by American writers, 

 for several years. 



There are a number of new names, generic and specific, in the list ; but as 

 there is no indication which are newly proposed, it is the business of the orni- 

 thologist, and not the duty of the bibliographer, to find them out. The familiar 

 Bonapartean "Nobs" are with lavish impartiality distributed through the 

 list, not necessarily, however, indicating a new name, but merely that method, 

 happily characterized by Temminck as "amoi la cargaison", in which Bona- 

 parte was an expert beyond other men. The list has proven full of errors and 

 omissions, though it was perhaps up to the then times, at least as far as Amer- 

 ica was concerned. Cf. Ann. Mag. Nat Hist., vol. i, 1839, 318 ; Arch, fur Naturg., 

 1839, (2), pp. 395, 396. 



1838. REINHAKDT, J. Ichthyologiske Bidrag til den Gronlandiske Fauna 



.... Indledning, indeholdeude Tillseg og Forandringer i den 

 fabriciske Fortegnelse paa gronlandske Hvirveldyr. <^Kongel. 

 Damlce Fid. Selslc. Naturvid. og Math. Afh., vii. Deel, 1838, pp. 85-105, 

 pll. 1-3. 



B. Fugle. 1. Tilva3xt af Fuglearter som ere faelleds for Europa og Nord- 

 amerika, 22 spp. 2. Tilvasxt af Fuglearter, som ere ebendommelige for den 

 ostlige Hemisphere, 2 spp. 3. Tilvaext af Fuglearter, som ere ebendommelige 

 for Nordamerika eller fortrinsviis forekommeder, 9 spp. PI. I, f. 1, Helmintho- 

 phaga " ruficapilla" (1). PI. I, f. 2, Zonotrichia leucophrys. PL II, Numenius 

 hudsonicus (borealis Wils.). PL III, Platypus tarrowu. Uebersetz. Isis, 1848, 

 pp. 247-258. See 1848, REINHARDT, J. 



1839. AUDUBON, J. J. A | Synopsis of the Birds | of | North America. 



| By | John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E. | Member of various 

 scientific associations in | Europe and America. | Edinburgh : | 

 Adam and Charles Black. Edinburgh; | Longman, Rees, Brown, 

 Green, and Longman, London. | MDCCCXXXIX. | 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 

 xii, 359 -f 1. 



A descriptive, synonymatic, and geographical list of 491 species systematically 

 arranged, with characters of the genera and higher groups, tho main reference 

 being to the plates of the folio ed. of the Birds of Americ , to which the 

 present publication serves as a methodical index. The very notable changes 

 throughout in classification and nomenclature from those adopted in the work 

 just mentioned have obviously their source in W. Macgillivray ; but as the 

 arrangement between him and Audubon was presumedly mutually satisfactory, 

 it is no part of the public's to enquire into thoir respective shares in tho author- 

 ship of the present volume. 



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