THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Bulletin of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. —These were projected for the 
“ sake of priority/’ but the promoters defeated their object by not publishing them, 
but merely sending out a few copies to a very restricted number of Australian orni¬ 
thologists. Bulletin No. 1 was dated Dec. 15th, 1910 ; No. 2, Feb. 21st, 1911; N 0 .3, 
May 21st, 1912 ; No. 4, April 16th, 1914 ; No. 5, Dec. 21st, 1915. 
Bull. Sci. Nat. ( Ferussac). —Abbreviation for a periodical conducted by Ferussac as Bulletin 
genera] et universel des annonces et des nouvelles Scientifiques. Vols. I.—IV., 8vo, 
Paris, 1823. Continued as Bulletin Universel, Vols. I.—XXVII., Paris, 8vo, 182k 
1832 ; also cited as Bull, des Sciences Naturelles et Geol. 
The Bulletin was devoted to reviews of current literature, and is very important 
as details of the contents of many scientific works published in livraisons are given. 
Original articles by the French voyageurs were also published, and Lesson published 
Alecthelia , Syma , etc. ; Gaimard, Megapodius ; Lesson and Gamot, Phonygammus 
and Barita keraudrenii and Barita quoyi, in this periodical. 
Bullock, William. —Born about 1775. Died about 1840 (?). Owner of Bullock’s Museum. 
Good account given by Sharpe in the Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., pp. 
208-245, 1906, when a detailed account of the sale is given. He emigrated to the 
United States of America, and his subsequent movements are not on record. 
Companion to the Liverpool Museum, many eds., 7th ed., 1809. 
Companion to Mr. Bullock’s London Museum, many eds., 12thed., 1812; 17thed., 1816. 
A Concise and easy method of Preserving subjects of Natural History, 1817. 
In the preface dated Sept. 20th, 1817, is written : “ Many of the specimens have 
been prepared up-wards of forty years (among these are the invaluable collections 
made by Sir Joseph Banks, in his Voyage of Discovery with Captain Cook) which 
retain all the beauty and freshness of life.” 
On p. 32 is written “The Birds, upwards of 3,000. . . This department of the 
Museum has lately been enriched (through the liberality of the Royal College of 
Surgeons) by the entire collection, made by Sir Joseph Banks and Captain Cook, during 
their voyage of discovery ; among which are many unique and perfectly new subjects.” 
Sharpe has given details of the Sale Catalogue. The sale began on April 29th, 1819, 
and occupied 26 days. Sharpe’s notes were taken from a Catalogue marked with 
names of purchasers, and many Australian birds are mentioned, especially among the 
Parrots, as (Sharpe, p. 227), Fourteenth Days’ Sale, Lot No. 43 “ Beautiful Small 
Parrot, undescribed ; it was killed on a vine in the garden of Colonel Johnson, at 
Port Jackson, and is the only one ever seen in the colony.” This lot was purchased by 
the Limiean Society for £4 18s. Many of Flinder’s birds are included as (Sharpe, 
p. 232), Twentieth Days’ Sale, Lot 127. “ Fourteen various specimens of Birds 
from New Holland, collected by Capt. Flinders.” 
Some lots were bought by Dr. Leach for the British Museum, others by Lichtenstein 
for Berlin, by Temminck for Leyden, and by Fector for Vienna. Pelzeln later gave 
an account of the Viennese acquisitions in the Ibis, Jan. 1873. 
Burmeister, Karl Hermann Konrad. —Born 1807. Died 1892. Verzeichniss der im 
zoologischen Museum der Universitat Halle-Wittenberg aufgestellten Saugethiere, 
Vogel und Amphibien, 8vo, Halle, before Sept. 15th, 1850. Milvaquila. 
Burton, Edward. —Catalogue of the Collection of Mammals and Birds at Fort Pitt, 
Chatham, 8vo, Chatham, pref. April 1st, 1838. 
See Austral Av. Rec., Vol. IV., pp. 147-148, 1921. 
In this Catalogue Larus erythrorhynchus is included for Latham’s Crimson-billed 
Gull, New South Wales, and the nude names “ Chalcites parvirostris Gould, Swan 
River,'' and “ Petroica monticola Swains., Swan River,” but the new species Eopsaltria 
griseogularis and Anthochcera lunvlata described by Gould from this Collection the same 
year do not appear. 
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