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made. As far as is known no livraison appeared earlier than 

 1809 in which year five were issued, covering Les Colombars, 

 ,pls. i.-xi., pp. 23-41, and Les Colombes, pis. i.-xviii., pp. 1-49. 

 In 1810 three livraisons with pis. xix.-xxxvi. and correspond- 

 ing text with the succeeding plates of Les Colombes xxxvii.-lix. 

 and Les Colombi-gallines, pis. i.-xvi. and pp. 1-30 all in 1811. 

 In tlie copy in the Tweeddale Library, Natural History Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum, pp. 23-41 as given above appear, 

 but the signatures are erratic, 7, 8, 9, 33, 24, but in my own 

 copy they were 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. In the Zoological Library 

 in the same place a copy contains pp. 23-28 only, but there 

 is a 2nd edition with pp. 23-34 — 129-135, and these latter 

 are the pages correctly numbered, 35-41 in the Tweeddale 

 copy and have the same signatures 33-24. This amplifies 

 the history of the elimination of certain pages, etc., by Madame 

 Knip as detailed by Coues, and the numeration of those pages 

 129-135 follows that of Les Colombes, which runs from 1-128, 

 and suggests they came out at the end of that group in error. 

 Trans: Linn. Soc. (Lond.). Dates are given in the Birds 

 Austr., Vol. VII., pp. 471, 477, 1919. The one that concerns 

 Austrahan ornithologists intimately is that of Vol. XV., 

 pt. I., which contains Vigors and Horsfield's historic essay, 

 and which jDroves to have been issued on February 17, 1827, 

 though until quite recently quoted as 1826. 



Vol. I. Pres. Roy. Soc. Nov. 24, 1791 



IV. „ „ „ May 24, 1798 



V. „ ,, „ Feb. 20, 1800 



VI. „ „ „ June 5, 1802 



XII. pt. 2 about July, 1819. 



[Tunstall]. Ornith. Britannica, dated 1771. Published 

 anonymously, yet commonly accepted by workers who pretend 

 to reject anonymous works. 



United States Exploring Expedition. The results of 

 this Expedition under Wilkes were pubhshed, and the birds 

 reported upon by Titian Peale, the artist of the expedition, 

 whose work was published in 1848. After a few copies were 

 distributed in a legitimate manner the stock was accidentally 



