THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Richmond has given some valuable items which are here made use of. 
Comp. List Birds Europe and America was published in Jan. 1838^ and 
is reviewed in Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. II., for April 1838. 
Many of his articles are known from the reprints and have been 
commonly quoted by abbreviations. Richmond’s notes are : 
C.S.O. This has been cited for the Consp. Syst. Ornith., pubhshed 
in Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris Zool., Ser. 4, Vol. I., Nos. 2 and 3, pp. 105-152. 
These two numbers were received by the Acad. Sci. Paris, May 15 and 
June 26, 1854. 
C.V.Z. = Consp. Vol. Zygod., published in Ateneo Italiano, Vol. 2, 
No. 8, May 1854, pp. 116-129 : received Paris before June 5, 1854. 
C.V.A. = Consp. Vol. Aniso, published ibid.. No. 11, Aug. 1854, 
pp. 311-321 ; received Paris before Aug. 28, 1854 : the ostensible date 
of publication of the Ateneo being the 15th of month. 
Saggio = Saggio distrib. Metod. Anim. verteb., pubhshed in parts in 
the Giorna Accad. Roma. I have not the exact dates of pubhcation of 
this Journal, but in 1911 I noted “ though Vol. LII., p. 208, is usually 
quoted as 1831, it was not published until well on in the year 1832.” 
Consp. Gen. Av. Richmond states that two editions of the first 
volume exist, and that it was issued in two parts : pt. I being received 
on or before June 24, 1850, by the Paris Academy, while pt. II. was 
acknowledged Feb. 3, 1851. The pages included in pt. I. are not known, 
Richmond suggesting 272. Regarding the second volume Richmond has 
a note ; “ If Bonaparte’s Conspectus, Vol. 2, p. 138, is accepted from 1854, 
the genus will stand as GorsacMus.^^ 1 do not understand this, as the 
page is dated “ 15 Mars, 1855,” where the genus is credited to Pucheran. 
My own results give pp. 1-159 were issued in 1855 after April 15, 
pp. 161-184 did not appear imtil 1856, while pp. 185 to end were published 
after Bonaparte’s death, a note being given which is dated Oct. 1, 1857. 
Bonnaterre, see Ency. Meth. 
Brandt. Descr. Icon. Anim. Russ. Nov. Aves, fasc. I., 1836. This 
is apparently all that was published, though references to other plates 
appear in literature but are regarded as referring to prepared, but not 
published, plates. 
See under Tchihatcheff. 
Brehm. Vogel Deutschl., preface dated July 1831. Title page 1831. 
Vogelfang, „ „ 8 Nov., 1854. ,, „ 1855. 
Brisson. Ornithologia. The six volumes were apparently pubhshed 
in one item in 1760. No other date known to me. 
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