No. 7.J THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD ' 177 



At the end of this httle volume is an inset " The Miscellany 

 of Natural History Advertiser," and on p. 16 is " Recently 



Published. White's Natural History of Selbourne 



Notes by Captain Thomas Brown," and then " This Day is 

 published. I. Part IX. . . . Illustrations of American 

 Ornithology. . . . Captain Thomas Brown. . . . The illus- 

 trations will comj)rise, not only the whole of the birds given 

 by Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte . . . 

 but will also contain various newly discovered species. . . 

 To be completed in sixteen parts, each containing Five beauti- 

 fully coloured Plates. . ." "... II. Illustrations of the 

 Game Birds of All Countries, coloured after Nature, and chiefly 

 of the size of the originals. By Captain Thomas Brown." 



We don't exactly see how the first mentioned of these can 

 be regarded as a piracy, while the second, which as far as we 

 have yet traced never appeared, seems entirely original. 



The Illustrations of American Ornithology is one of the 

 rarest and most expensive of ornithological works, and the 

 examination of the example lately in the Godman Library 

 did nob reveal any new names, the " newly discovered species " 

 apparently referring to those described by other authors since 

 the time of Wilson. 



Some months ago we made note of another work on Birds 

 by Captain Thomas Brown, and noted it was in the Library of 

 the Zoological Society of London. Upon reference we were 

 surprised to find that the copy there consisted of a few numbers 

 in wrappers, bound up with the wrappers but not in order, 

 and presented an inexph cable problem. As among these a 

 new genus of Austrahan birds was seen, it was essential to 

 trace the whole of the work and determine the facts. This 

 was not easily done, but as the bird described was stated to be 

 in the Museum of the Manchester Natural History Society, 

 of which Captain Thomas Brown was Curator, investigation 

 was extended to that City. 



Dr. W. M. TattersaU, the Keeper of the Manchester Museum, 

 and Mr. T. E. Coward, the well-known Ornithologist, assisted 

 in the search with good results. The bird could not be traced 

 nor any record, nor was a copy of the work in the Museum, 



