LITERATURE REFERRING TO EXTINCT BIRDS. 



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1830. Quoy et Gaimard. Voy. Astrolabe, 

 Zool. I p. 242 pi. 24. 



(Coturnix novaezealandiae described.) 



1830. Kittlitz. Memoires Acad. Sc. 



Petersburg I. 



(Kittlitz describes Turdus terrestris and 

 Fringilla papa.) 



*1838. Polack. New Zealand. 



(First mention of Moas.) 



*1838. Don de Navarette. Rel. Quat. voy. 

 Christ. 



1838. Lichtenstein. Abhandl. K. Akademie 

 d. Wissenschaften p. 448, plate V. 



(Hemignathus ellisianus — sub nomine 

 obscurus — and Hemignathus lucidus 

 described.) 



1843. Dieffenbach's Travels in New- 

 Zealand, 1843. Appendix, Birds, by 

 J. E. Gray. On page 197 Rallus 

 dieffenbachii described. 



1843. Owen. P.Z.S. 1843, p. 1., letter read 

 from Rev. W. C. Cotton, mentioning 

 remains of gigantic birds in New 

 Zealand, p. 8 the name Dinornis 

 novaezealandiae given to the first 

 Moa-bones exhibited. 



1846. In the "Voyage of Erebus and 

 Terror," Birds, Gray describes and 

 figures Nesolimnas dieffenbachii. 



1847. Gosse. Birds of Jamaica. 



(Cf. At a erythrocephala, Siphonorhis 

 americanus and other Jamaican birds.) 



1848. Edm. de Selys-Longchamps. Resume 

 concern, les Oiseaux brevipennes 

 mentionnes dans l'ouvrage de M. 

 Strickland sur le Dodo. 



In Rev. Zool. 1848, pp. 292-295. 



1848. Strickland and Melville. The Dodo 

 and its kindred; or the history, 

 affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, 

 Solitaire, and other extinct birds of 

 the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and 

 Bourbon. London 1848. 



(141 pages and 15 plates.) 



*1848. Peale. U.S. Expl. Exp. Birds. 



(On p. 147, pi. XL, is described and figured 

 the extinct Chaetoptila augustipluma, under 

 the name of Entomiza augustipluma. This 

 work is not available, as only 3 or 4 copies 

 exist of it, but see : 



Cassin. U.S. Expl. Exp. Mamm. 



and Orn. p. p. 148 pi. XI (1858). 



1851. Is. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. Notice 

 sur des ossements et des oeufs 

 trouves a Madagascar dans les 

 alluvions modernes, et provenant d'un 

 oiseau gigantesque. 



In Annales des Scienc. Naturelles, 13 serie, 

 Zoologie, tome 40. 



(This volume is dated " 1850," but the above 

 article is said to have been read before the 

 Academy on January 27, 1851, therefore the 

 date of publication must be rather 1851 than 

 1850.) 



1854. H. Schlegel. Ook een woordje over 

 den Dodo en zijne verwanten. 



In : Verslagen en Mededeelingen der 

 Koninglijke Akademie der Wetenschappen, 

 Afdeel. Naturkunde, Deel II, p. 254. 



1857. Japetus Steenstrup. Bidrag til 

 Geirfuglens Naturhistorie, etc. 



In : Naturh. Forening. Vidensk. Meddel. for 

 1855, Nos. 3-7. 



(The first history and bibliography of the 

 Great Auk.) 



1858. H. Schlegel. Over eenige uitge- 

 storvene reusachtige Vogels van de 

 Mascarenhas-eilanden. (Een tegen- 

 hanger tot zijne geschiedenis der 

 Dodo's.) 



In : Verslagen en Mededeelingen der 

 Koninglijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 

 Afdeel. Naturkunde, Deel VII, pp. 1 16-128. 



(Leguatia gigantea, Porphyrio (Notornis ?) 

 caerulescens.) 



