THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Brown, Thomas (Capt). —A great Zoologist whose ornithological attempts were doomed to 
failure. The details as far as are yet known are given in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. IV., 
pp. 176—194, 1922. 
Ornithology, Part I., folio, London, 1827. 
This is unknown save that I have six plates which may represent this item. 
Illustrations of the Genera of Birds. 14 or 16 parts of this work were issued, each 
containing 4 coloured plates of imperial quarto size, and at intervals a black plate ; 
fifty parts were promised but I have fourteen only, and there is rumour of two others. 
At the British Museum there are twelve only with the note “ All published,” and the 
dates of receipt are there marked as follows : No. 1, April 17th, 1845; 2, May 28th, 
1845; 3, August 5th, 1845; 6, Feb. 2nd, 1846; 8 (and 9), April 22nd, 1846; and 
Nos. 9-12, Feb. 8th, 1847 
Dates are printed on the wrappers as follows : No. I„ April, 1845 ; II., May, 1845; 
III., June, 1845; IV., July, 1845; V., August, 1845; VI., September, 1845; and 
VII., October, 1845. Parts 10-12 were issued in one cover with a title page and 
introduction dated June, 1846. 
The plates and text were issued in an extraordinary manner, neither order nor 
continuity being observed in the text. This work is remarkable for the complete 
description of a new genus and species of Australian bird, an Eagle from Swan River, 
which Brown names Hamirostra montana, while as synonyms he notes his own names 
Chenogeranus and Pileata. 
Parrots, being Vol. I. of the Miscellany of Natural History (q.v.), by Sir T. Dick 
Lauder and Capt. Thos. Brown, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1833. 
Gackatio . 
Bruch, Carl Friedrich (Dr.).—Born 1789. Died 1857. Journ. fur Orn., 1853, heft 2 
(March), pp. 96-108. Monograpliische Uebersicht der Gattung Larus Lin. 
Gavia gouldii, G. andersonii , G. pomarre , Gabianus . 
Brunnich, Martin Thrane. —Bom 1737. Died 1827. Ornithologia Borealis, 8vo, Hafnia 
(80 pp.), (pref. Feb. 20th) 1764. 
A rare little book quoted by Palsearctic workers who have never studied it. From 
it are used CatJiarada , Tringa ferruginea and Scolopax falcinellus , but as to the two 
last named, refer to Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pp. 45-56, 1923. 
Zoologise Fundament a, Svo, Hafnise, “ 1772.” 
Generic diagnoses only, sometimes accompanied by vernacular names. Albatrossa 
and Penguinus have been quoted from this work (and Plautus commonly used for 
the famous Great Auk of the Northern Hemisphere). 
Buffon, George Louis le Clerc, Comte de. —Born 1707. Died 1788. Writer of the most 
popular Natural History of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many editions and 
reprints being published in many countries. Condorcet published a “ Vie de Buffon ” in 
1794, and Memoirs appear in the translations, and an easily accessible one in the 2nd Vol. 
of Jardine’s Naturalists’ Library dealing with Monkeys. According io Sherborn the 
first edition of the Histoire Naturelle contains 44 vols. in 4to, and was issued in Paris 
from 1749-1804. 
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 10 vols., 4to, Paris, 1770-86, is the one most often 
quoted in ornithology. 
An edition of Plassan and Didot in 76 vols., 18mo, Paris, 1799-1809, is the most 
important to ornithologists from a technical view-point, as in Vol. XIV. of Quadrupeds 
is included an index to the birds by Daudin, who used Lacepede’s System, just previously 
published (1799), in diagnostic form only. The names are quoted as of Daudin {q.v.) 
in Didot’s ed., the volume being issued in 1802. 
Refer to Daubenton, Boddmrt, Pennant and Kuhl in this connection. 
So many editions of Buffon’s works were issued that probably some may include 
novel names, but fortunately few Australian birds were known at that time. 
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