THE AUSTRAL AVIAN 

 RECORD. 



A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL DEVOTED PRIMARILY 

 TO THE STUDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN AVIFAUNA. 



Vol. I., Nos. C & 7. February 28th, 1913. 



A LIST OF THE SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 BIRDS DESCRIBED BY JOHN GOULD, 

 WITH THE LOCATION OF THE TYPE- 

 SPECIMENS. 



By Witmer Stone, in conjunction with Gregory 

 M. Mathews. 



The details of the sale of Gould's Collection of 

 Australian birds to Dr. Wilson of Philadelphia are set 

 forth in the late Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's Analytical Index 

 to the Works of John Gould, London, 1893. The 

 purchaser is there referred to as "John Wilson," but 

 his correct name was Thomas B. Wilson.* 



Dr. Wilson was a patron, and for a time president, 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 and his entire ornithological collection, numbering some 

 twenty thousand specimens, was presented to that 

 institution, where it is still preserved. 



The negotiations for the Gould purchase were carried 

 on by one of his brothers, then resident in England, 

 probably Mr. Edward Wilson, and were completed by 

 August, 1847. The specimens, apparently all skins, 

 were sent to Verreaux Brothers, in Paris, to be mounted, 



* For biographical notice, see Cassinia, 1910, p. 1. 



