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French zoological navigators, particularly those of the 

 Coquille, already noticed. Of the species discovered hy 

 Forster and sir Joseph Banks, inserted in Dr. La- 

 tham's Synopsis, very few can now he referred to their 

 modern genera ; so that in effect they become, like many 

 hundreds of others in the same predicament, — nominal 

 species. 



List of the chief Geographic Ornithological Works, 

 arranged under the Five Zoological Provinces. 



1. Europe. 



Temminck. Manuel d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Systema- 

 tique des Oiseaux qui se trouventen Europe, &c. Par C. J. 

 Temminck. Second Edition. Paris,' 1820. 2 vol. 8vo. 



Gould. J. The Birds of Europe. Royal folio. Now in course 

 of publication. 



Selby. Illustrations of British Ornithology. In two Series, 

 viz. the Land and Water Birds. London, 1821-1824. Im- 

 perial folio. (Plates only.) 



Selby. Illustrations of British Ornithology; containing the De- 

 scriptions of the Birds of Great Britain. London, 1825, &c. 

 2 vol. Svo. 



Montagu. Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Sy- 

 nopsis of British Birds, by Geo. Montagu, F. L. S. Lon- 

 don, 1802. 2 vol. Svo. Supplement to ditto. 1 vol. 

 Exeter, 1813. 



The pages of this work are, unfortunately, not numbered i 

 the first volume contains one coloured plate ; the supplement 

 lias twenty-four others uncoloured. 



2. Asia. 



Le Vaillant. Histoire Naturelle d'une partie d'Oiseaux nou- 

 veaux et rares de l'Amerique et des Indes. Par Francois 

 Le Vaillant. Tom. 1. Paris, 1801. 4to. Forty-nine col- 

 loured plates. 



This was the only volume published. It contains twenty- 

 four plates and descriptions of hornbills, the last being the 

 Philedon corniculatus, which is the Meliphagous representa- 

 tive of the BuceridcB. The remainder of the volume is devoted 

 to the AmpelidcB or fruit-eaters of America. 

 Horsfield. Zoological Researches in Java and the neighbour- 

 ing Islands. By Thos. Horsfield, M.D., &c. London, 

 1824. 1 vol. 4to. 



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