LITERATURE 



REFERRING TO 



EXTINCT BIRDS. 



NO attempt has been made to quote all books in which extinct birds 

 have been mentioned ; not only would that mean a tedious, long work, 

 and a book in itself, but, the repetitions being so numerous, it would 

 have been of very little use. On the other hand, I have tried to quote the most 

 important literature referring to Extinct Birds, and I have specially been 

 anxious to cite and verify the principal ancient literature. Well known general 

 works on birds in which extinct species have, of course, also been mentioned, are, 

 as a rule, not quoted ; such as : The 27 volumes of the Catalogue of Birds ; 

 Brisson's Ornithology; Daubenton's, Buffon's and Montbeillard's works; Latham's 

 Ornithological Writings ; Linnaeus' Systema Naturae in all its editions ; Vieillot's 

 writings; popular natural histories and school books ; Brehm's Thierleben in its 

 various editions ; Finsch's Papageien ; Gray's and Sharpe's Hand-lists ; Dubois' 

 Synopsis Avium, lists of specimens in Museums, and many others, in which 

 extinct birds are as a matter of course mentioned. 



Three most complete detailed bibliographies must be named: The 

 " Bibliography of the Didinae," forming Appendix B. of Strickland's " Dodo and 

 its Kindred" (1848), the Bibliography of A lea impennis by Wilhelm Blasius in 

 the new Edition of Naumann, vol. XII, pp. 169-176 (1903), and the Bibliography 

 referring to the Moas by Hamilton, in the Trans. New Zealand Institute XXVI 

 and XXVII (1894, 1895). 



Most of the books and pamphlets quoted hereafter are in my library at 

 the Zoological Museum at Tring, in the ornithological part of which Dr. Hartert 

 and I have been specially interested for many years. Those books that are not 

 in my library are marked with an asterisk, but several of these I have been able 

 to consult in other libraries. 



The chronological order appeared to be best suited to the particular 

 subject treated of. 



