INTRODUCTION. 
I N the following pages I put forward a “ List of the Birds of Australia ” as 
a supplement to the first seven volumes and as a guide to the nomen¬ 
clature of the species. While the work was in progress so much advance 
was made in the elimination of nomenclatural disputes that a large proportion 
of the names have been changed. It was considered advisable to give the 
correct names as determined up to the present and to take the opportunity of 
giving references to the figures given in my work, and also a reference to the 
plate given by Gould, so that correlation may be exact. The preceding 
volumes comprise all Australian birds not referred to the Passeriformes, so 
that practically half the Australian Avifauna is here listed. In order to make 
the List more useful an attempt has been made to provide the exact date of 
publication of each name. This is an innovation and consequently it shows 
many incomplete entries, but a majority are complete, and I have to thank 
Dr. Charles Richmond for his help so willingly given. In cases where no 
exact date of publication has been found, the date given in the preface has 
been included as a guide to the investigator. Review dates are generally 
noted as such, as in some cases the books may have appeared some time before 
they were reviewed. 
In the matter of types the method of determination has been given and 
in the cases of subsequent designation the reference has been generally added. 
Gray published a List of Genera with types in 1840, a second edition in 1841, 
and an Appendix in 1842. A more complete book appeared in 1855. When 
Gray is cited the year only is given, reference to these works being intended. 
This has been done, as these works constitute the basis of type designation 
in connection with ornithology. Between 1855 and the publication of the 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum little systematic work was done, and 
odd cases of type designation may appear in many places. As instance, in 
Salvadori’s Ornith. Papua, e Mol. types are named anteriorly to the mono¬ 
graphs in the Catalogue of Birds and in many cases more accurately determined. 
As a guide to the data given in connection with the works cited I have published 
in the last part of my Birds of Australia a fist of books with dates. On account 
of its importance I am reprinting this with additions and corrections in the 
next number of the Austral Avian Record. 
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