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ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 



ever rank as the first describer of the birds of these little 

 known regions. 



5. Australia. 



Collins. Account of the English Colony of New South 

 Wales. London, 1798-1802. 2 vols. 4to. With many 

 coloured Plates of Natural History. (A second edition was 

 published in 1804.) 



Phillips. Voyage to Botany Bay, London, 1789. 1 vol. 

 4to. (There is another edition in 8vo). 



White. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales ; with 

 Sixty-five Plates of nondescript Animals, Birds, Lizards, 

 Serpents, curious Cones of Trees, and other Natural Pro- 

 ductions. By John White, Esq., Surgeon- General to the 

 Settlement. London, 1790. 1 vol. 4to. 



The plates of birds, all coloured, amount to twenty-nine. 

 They are designed by Miss Stone, the best zoological artist 

 of that day; and the specimens were all deposited in the 

 Leverian Museum, where we well remember seeing them. 



Lewin. A Natural History of the Birds of New South 



L Wales; collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after 

 Nature. By John William Lewin, A.L.S., late of Para- 

 matta, New South Wales. Illustrated with Twenty-six 

 Plates. London, 1822. Thin folio. 



Shaw. Zoology of New Holland. By George Shaw, M. D. 

 The Figures by James Sowerby, F. L. S. London, 1793. 

 1 vol. thin 4 to. 



Of the twelve coloured plates w T hich were published of this 

 work, five are of birds. 



Horsfield and Vigors. A Description of the Australian Birds 

 in the Collection of the Linnasan Society, with an Attempt 

 at arranging them according to their natural Affinities. 

 By N. A. Vigors, Esq. M.A. &c, and Thomas Horsfield, 

 M.D. &c. Part 2. London, 1826. 



Inserted in the LinruEan Transactions, vol. xv. p. 170. 

 Many new genera and species are here characterised ; and 

 the attempt at their natural arrangement, upon the whole, is 

 highly creditable to the authors. The second part, however, 

 has not yet appeared. 



(179*) The foregoing are the chief works upon geo- 

 graphic ornithology that we are acquainted with. We 

 believe the list includes all those of any importance that 

 have been completed* ; but there are no doubt many 



* There have been two or three German publications commenced upon 

 the zoology of Brazil, but which have been discontinued after the first or 



