26 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. IV. 



destroyed by fire. A second edition was prepared by John 

 Cassin, a professed ornithologist, who rejected most of Peale's 

 names as synonyms, though they have since been recognised. 

 The preface is dated May 10, 1858. 



ViEiLLOT. Analyse nouv. Ornith., acknowledged B.F. April 

 14, 1816. Author of monographs in Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., nouv. ed., Ency. Method., Galerie des Oiseaux, which 

 see. 



Vigors. Editor of Zool. Journal. Co-author with Horsfield 

 of Essa}^ on Australian birds which appeared in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., pt. ii. 



Vroeg. a well-known name since first attention was 

 drawn to it by Slierborn and Richmond in the Smithsonian 

 Miscell. Coll. (Quarterly Issue), Vol. 47, January 31, 1905, 

 pp. 332-347. Papers have been written by Hartert, Van 

 Oort, Witmer Stone and myself, and the last word has rot 

 yet been said. The sale of the collection was to be September 

 22, 1764, so that the pamphlet must have been published 

 before that date. The Latin Adumhratiuncuki was pre- 

 pared by Pallas, from external evidence; but the author is 

 anonymous, while the text of the Catalogue may be credited 

 to Vroeg. Two years after Vroeg's Cat. was published, 

 Linne (Syst. Nat., ed. 12, p. 298, 1766) quotes Turdus 

 puniceus Pallas, adumbr. 99. (This is No 99, p. 2, Vroeg's 

 Cat., 1764). 



Pallas, Zoogr., Vol. II., p. 199, 1827, says he described 

 Try7iga alba in Catal. Vroegiani append, adumbr. and this 

 is No. 320, p. 7, in Vroeg's Cat. 



W^AGLER. Syst. Avium was reviewed in Isis, October 1827, 

 col. 864. The monograph of Parrots appeared in the Abhandl. 

 Ak. Wissen. Munchen, Vol. I., 1832, whose preface is dated 

 December 1832, and separates are dated 1835. 



Waterhouse. Index Generum Avium. Preface dated 

 August 1, 1889. A valuable list, but no accuracy as regards 

 dates of publication. Waterhouse's work must be supple- 

 mented by Richmond's, which see. 



White. Journ. Voy. N.S.W. Title 1790, latest date on 

 plates December 29, 1789. Reviewed in Gent's. Mag. for 



