94 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIII. 1916. 



ON THE BIRDS FIGURED IN THE ATLAS TO KRUSEN- 

 STERN'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. 



By ERNST HAETEET, Ph.D. 



ONE of the rarest books, apparently even in Russia, seems to be the Atlas zur 

 Reise um die Welt unternommen auf Befehl Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät 

 Alexander des Ersten auf den Schiffen " Nadeshda" und " Neva " unter dem Commando 

 des Capitains von Krusenstern. — St. Petersburg, 1814. It is a huge folio work 

 with maps, landscapes, portraits, costumes, ethnographical articles, and animals of 

 all kinds. The maps were done by Captaiu von Krusenstern, all the other plates by 

 *' Hofrath Tilesius of Leipzig " (W. G. Tilesius von Tilenau), who had accompanied 

 the expedition as naturalist. It was iutended to publish a volume on the Natural 

 History results of the voyage, but the text has never appeared. 



I am greatly obliged to Dr. Chalmers Mitchell for kindly lending me the copy 

 of these plates in the library of the Zoological Society of London. 



Only the following plates contain birds : 



PLATE XVII 



A pigeon and a parrot. The Pigeon is called " Der Koknh," the Parrot " Der 

 Pihidi," and both are supposed to have come from the island of Nukahiwa or 

 Nukuhiwa, in the Marquesas Group, Pacific Ocean. The Parrot is undoubtedly 

 the species now known as Coriphilus ultramarinus (Kuhl), an inhabitant of the 

 Marquesas Islands, though the figure is not exact in all details (cf. Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xx. p. 48). 



The Pigeon is a species unknown to us. It appears to belong to the genus 

 Phlegoenas Rchb. Vieillot {Nouv. Diet, d 1 Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 346, 1818) named 

 it Columba rubeseens. Unless wrongly represented and not from the Marquesas 

 Islands, it is a species peculiar to Nukahiwa. As the parrot is fairly well repre- 

 sented, we may presume that the pigeon is also. It is urgently desirable that a 

 competent ornithologist or able collector should visit the Marquesas, in order to 

 find out if Columba rubeseens is already extinct or still in existence (cf. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 606). 



PLATE XVIII 



Upper figure : " Der Brasilianische Kiebitz." A fairly good figure of 

 Belonopterus cayennensis (Gm.) {Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 163). 



Lower figure: "Der Beissige Pelikan." A good figure of Sula leucogaster 

 (= Sula sula, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 436, nee Pelecanus sula L.). 



PLATE XLIV 



An uncoloured plate. The upper figure seems to represent some kind of Finch, 

 but I cannot make out which species. It is left unnamed, but is presumably from 

 Japan, as it is on the same tree with an owl called " Die japanische Eule." The 

 latter has an unfeathered tarsus and ear-tufts. No Japanese Owl is known to me 

 which resembles the drawing. 



