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LITERATURE REFERRING TO EXTINCT BIRDS. 



1752. Moehring. Avium Genera. 



(In this ominous work, which, through an 

 article by Poche in Zool. Anz. 1904, has 

 recently caused so much quite unnecessary 

 disturbance among nomenclatorists — cf. 

 Hartert, Zool. Anz. 1904, p. 154, and Proc. 

 IV. Int. Orn. Congress, pp. 276 — 283. The 

 Dodo is mentioned under the name " Raphus.") 



1763. L'Abbe de la Caille. Journal His- 



torique du Voyage fait au Cap de 



Bonne — esperance. 



(Some birds from Mauritius mentioned, but 

 no descriptions.) 



1773. Voyage a l'isle de France, a l'isle de 

 Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne Esperance, 

 etc. Avec des observations nouvelles 

 sur la nature and sur les hommes. 

 Par un officier du roi. Neuchatel 

 1773. 



1775. A voyage to the island of Mauritius, 

 etc. By a French Officer. (Transla- 

 tion of the above). 



(Lettre IX, page 67, treats of the "Animals 

 natural to the isle of France.") 



1782. Sonnerat. Voyage aus iles orientales 

 et a la Chine. Two volumes, 1782. 



(In Volume II, on plate 101, opposite page 176, 

 the extinct Alectroenas nitidissima is figured, 

 under the name of " Pigeon hollandais.") 



*1783 (?) Callam. Voyage Botany Bay. 



(According to Gray Notomis alba is 

 mentioned under the name of " White 

 Gallinule.") 



1786. Sparrmann. Museum Carlsonianum I. 



(On pi. 23 Pomarea nigra Sparrm.) 



1789. G. Dixon. Voyage round the World. 



(On p. 357 is note and figure of the extinct 

 Moho apicalis, under the name of the "Yellow- 

 tufted Bee-eater.") 



1789. Browne, Patrick. The Civil and 

 Natural History of Jamaica. 



1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to 



Botany Bay, etc. London 1789. 



(Among other interesting birds Notomis 

 stanleyi is figured on the plate opposite p. 273.) 



1790. J. White. Journal of a Voyage to 

 New South Wales with sixty-five 

 Plates of Nondescript Animals, Birds, 

 Lizards, Serpents, etc. London 

 MDCCXC. 



(I have a copy with black and white, and 

 another with coloured plates. Notomis alba.) 



1804. Hermann. Observationes Zoolog. 



(On page 125 the extinct Bourbon Palaeomis 

 is described as Psittacus semirostris.) 



1807. M. F. Peron. Voyage de decouvertes 



aux terres australes, execute par 



ordre de Sa Majeste l'Empereur et 



Roi, etc., etc. 2 vols. 1807 and 1816 



and Atlas. 



(On p. 467 is described the Little Emu from 

 Kangaroo Island, which I have named Dromaius 

 peronii, in honour of its discoverer, Francois 

 Peron. A memoir of this extraordinary and 

 admirable man's short and brilliant life will 

 be found in Vol. VI of the " Naturalist's 

 Library," Edinburgh, 1843.) 



J- 1810. Andre Pierre Ledru. Voyage aux 

 iles de Teneriffe, la Trinite, Saint- 

 Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto-Ricco, 

 execute par ordre du Gouvern. francais, 

 etc., etc. Two volumes, 1810. 



(In Vol. II, page 39, are mentioned various 

 birds as occurring on the Danish West-Indian 

 Islands, which are not found there at present. 

 " Un todier, nomme vulgairement perroquet 

 de terre " and seven species of Humming- 

 Birds !) 



*1826. Bloxam. Voyage of the Blonde. 



(See Phaeomis oahensis, Loxops coccinea 

 rufa. Also interesting notes on other 

 Sandwich-Islands Birds.) 



1827. Pallas. Zoogr. Rosso — Asiat. II p. 

 305: Phalacrocorax fierspicillatus, the 

 now extinct Cormorant from Bering 

 Island. 



