THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Coxen, Charles. —Brother-in-law of Gould, who collected birds in the interior of New 
South Wales in 1835-6, and some of these were the first to be described by Gould in 
the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands, where he also mentions Stephen 
Coxen, who otherwise is never mentioned. He assisted Gould in many ways when 
Gould was out in Australia, and one species Graucalus phasianellus was described from 
Coxen’s Collection. 
Many years afterwards he sent Gould the drawing from which Gould described 
Cyclopsitta coxeni, and also sent three new birds collected by Mr. John Jardine at 
Capo York, Gerygone per sonata, Ptilotis gracilis and Monarcha albiventris. 
Coxen is also specially mentioned by Gould in connection with Herodias garzetta. 
Crozet.— An early visitor to Australia whose Voyage to Tasmania, Hew Zealand, etc., 
1771-1772, was translated by H. Ling Roth and published in 8vo, London, 1891. 
Cunningham, Allan. —Born 1791. Died 1839. Killed by natives while in the Interior 
with Mitchell. A fine naturalist better known from his botanical results. Biographical 
Sketch by Heward, 8vo, London, 1842. 
Cunningham, P. M.—Two years in New South Wales, 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1827. 
Contains zoology of little interest, but apparently he was not liked by, nor did he 
like, Australians. 
Cuvier, George Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert. —Born Aug. 23rd, 1769, died 
May 13th, 1832. One of the greatest naturalists who has lived. Unfortunately, 
engaged in the higher studies, he did not worry about taxonomic details, hence 
his works are very troublesome. Thus he explained “ All the birds in the 
public gallery of the Museum (in Paris) were named and arranged according to my 
system in 1811. Even such of my subdivisions as I had not yet named were 
marked by particular signs. This is my data. Independently of this, my first volume 
(of my Regne Animal) was printed in the beginning of 1816. Four volumes are not 
printed as quickly as a pamphlet of a few pages. I say no more.” This was written 
to controvert the claims made on account of Vieillot’s Analyse which, a delightful 
systematic synopsis, was published eight months before Cuvier’s work. As I will note 
later, Vieillot’s Analyse had been prepared as early as Cuvier’s claim. 
Many Memoirs have appeared as independent works, such as the well-known Life 
by Ida Lee, while accounts appeared in most contemporary Journals, and are generally 
prefaced to editions of his Regne Animal in translations such as Henderson’s, 
hereafter noted. 
Tableau iSlementaire de THistoire Naturelle des Animaux, 8vo, Paris, An. 6 (reviewed 
Dec. 24th, 1797). 
The groupings here, which Cuvier later claims, are very crude and indefinite, and 
certainly not to be understood by anyone except Cuvier himself. No Latin names 
were given to the sections so obscurely diagnosed. 
Legons d’Anatomie Comparee, 5 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1800-1805. 
Vols. I and II. reviewed April 19th, 1800. 
At the end of the first volume Tables are given with Latin names to the sections. 
On account of the reference in the Preface to the Tableau Elementaire, an Opinion 
has been printed that such names as are identifiable from the vernaculars cited and 
the diagnoses in the Tableau Elementaire must be accepted by taxonomers. Many 
of the sections named do not appear in that work, so these remain indeterminable, 
e.g., Totanus and Galidris . 
In 1799 Lacepede published a diagnostic series of genera much in concordance with 
Cuvier s, and a collation of these has been printed in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., 
pp. 151-158, 1918. 
The only name that is used by us is Kakatoe. 
Le Regne Animal. 
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