THE BIRDS OE AUSTRALIA. 
plates. Vol. I., p. 144, pi. dated July 2, 1792, introduces tlie new name 
Pinguinaria. 
Zool. New Holland. I have given some notes on this in the Emu, 
Vol. XI., pt. I., p. 255, April 1, 1912. 
Cimelia Physica. Under this title Miller’s plates were republished 
with text, the latter written by Shaw, who rejected many of Miller’s 
names. Title page, 1796. 
Naturalists* Miscellany. Nodder painted the plates and Shaw provided 
the text for this enterprise, which only concluded with Shaw’s death. 
Two hundred and eighty-seven parts appeared between Aug. 1, 1789 
and Aug. 1813. These were bound up in twenty-four volumes. The 
parts were issued at monthly intervals, each part containing three or 
four plates ; the first seven years the former number, the succeeding the 
latter. A few small discrepancies occur which are explained in two papers, 
the first by Sherbom in the Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, Vol. XV., 
April 1895, p. 375, and the second by J. A. Allen in the Bull. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist., Vol. XXXI., p. 11, March 4, 1912. This is a very important 
publication to Australians, as their most common Birds, Fishes and 
Mammals, etc., were first described in it. I might observe that Shaw 
was the Director of Zoology at the British Museum, so that he was a good 
authority on the subjects. 
He also began a General Zoology, and was dealing with the birds at 
the time of his death : the work was completed by Stephens, which see. 
Shelley. Author of Birds of Africa, but wrote Monograph on 
Cuckoos in Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., which see. 
Sherborn. Compiler of the Index Animalium, the most important 
aid to the systematist yet published. In the preparation of this work 
pubfished many invaluable notes on publication which have been here 
quoted. At the British Museum (Natural History) the manuscript for the 
second part of the Index is available, and its value cannot be estimated. 
Smith. Ulus. Zool. South Africa. Published in parts, 10 pis. to a 
part. 1st and 2nd Nos. reviewed Ann. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1838 ; 11 Nos. 
published by Sept. 1840 ; 21 Nos. April 1845. The plates are numbered 
consecutively in classes, thus : Aves, pi. iv. These were sorted out and 
bound under such headings, so that all trace of issue is lost. 
The copy in the British Museum (Natural History) has the dates 
written on the text to the plates, as follows : pis. 1-17, 1838 ; 18-39, 1839 ; 
40-63, 1840 ; 64-69, 1841 ; 70-74, 1842 ; 75-91, 1843 ; 92-98, 1844 ; 99-105, 
1845 ; 106-107, 1846 ; 108-113, 1847 ; and 114, 1848. See P.Z.S., 1881. 
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