BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
This is the magnum opus that has caused much trouble, as the numerous subdivisions 
that appear therein are named in vernacular, only comparatively a few having the 
Latin equivalent given. 
The first edition in 4 volumes is dated on the title page “ 1817,” but was actually 
issued in Paris, 8vo, before Dec. 7th, 1816. The names I have quoted are Catarrhactes 
(ex Brisson), Squatarola y Phceopus , Recurvirostra orientalis, FalcineUus , Calidris , Rhynchcea, 
Ocypterus , Barita, Grauealus, Philedon, Budytes , Colaris, Dicceum, Cuculus gigas. 
The second edition appeared in 5 volumes, 8vo, Paris, on the title-page “ Nouvelle 
Edition, revue et augments, 1829.” Vols. 1, 2, 4, 5 appeared before April 11th, 1829, 
Vol. 3 not until March 27th, 1830. 
Ibis molucca , Chalybceus , Pelecanus perspicillatus and Menura lyra appear in 
this edition. 
Many editions have appeared in many languages, some with important additions. 
Such are Voigt’s edition ( q.v .), Schinz’s (q.v.) and Griffith’s ( q.v .). In Henderson’s 
edition, published in London, in parts based on Cuvier’s 2nd edition and now found in 
4 volumes text and 4 vols. plates, there is a good Memoir of Cuvier in the first volume, 
1834. The numerous editions are noted in Sherborn’s Biliography with notes, which 
should be referred to b}^ students. 
Dahl, Knut. —A Norwegian Naturalist who collected in North and North-west Australia 
in 1894-5 with such success that three excellent new species were described from his 
collection by Collett in 1898, viz., Ptilopus (Leucotreron) alligator , Petrophassa rufipennis 
and Psephotus dissimilis. 
D’Albertis, Luigi Maria. —Bom 1841. Died 1901. “ The man who made New Guinea 
unsafe for later explorers and collectors.” An Italian naturalist w'ho collected in New 
Guinea, the many new forms being described by Salvadori. 
In the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Vol. X., pp. 12-19,1877 
(dated May 3rd), there appeared a “ Noto intorno ad alcuni uccelli raccolti durante la 
explorazione del Fiume Fly per L. M. D’Albertis, C.M.Z.S. Traduzione connota di 
T. Salvadori,” being a translation back into Italian of a “ Notes on some birds collected 
during the Exploration of the Fly River,” published in The Sydney Mail for Saturday, 
Feb. 24th, 1877, p. 248. D’Albertis’ book entitled “ New Guinea : what I saw and 
what I did,” published in 2 vols., 8vo, London, in 1880, contains coloured plates of 
birds by Gould. A second edition was issued in 1881. 
Pitta assimilis (n.n.). 
Dampier, William. —Born 1652. Died 1715. English buccaneer explorer. The first 
Englishman to visit Australia, and his natural history notes, crude though they be, 
are of interest as being the first ever recorded of Australian birds. 
These appear in his Voyage round the World, published in 2 vols, 8vo, London, 
1697-1699, and as it was West Australia he touched upon, his notes appear in W. B. 
Alexander’s papers (q.v.). 
Darwin, Charles Robert. —Born Feb. 12th, 1809. Died April 19th, 1882. One of the 
most famous naturalists, but is here mentioned as Gould wrote that probably the 
members of,the Beagle staff would be remembered by the birds they had given him, 
and among those enumerated was “ C. Darwin, who at that time had not become the 
world-famous thinker of the Origin of Species.” 
Datjbenton, Ed me Louis. —Born 1732. Died 1785. Well known to ornithologists on 
account of “ Daubenton’s Plates,” but it must be noted that this is Daubenton the 
younger, there being a greater Daubenton, the elder, born May 29th, 1716, died 
Jan. 1st, 1800, who assisted Buffon with anatomical and osteological works. 
The one with which we are concerned furnished 1,008 plates, nearly all of birds, to 
illustrate Buffon’s Natural History of Birds, and afterwards a new text was provided to 
accompany these plates. The text was written by Buffon, Montbeillard. 
Few Australian birds are figured, but many of the older species, types of genera, etc., 
are based upon these pictures, such as Boddaert’s Table (q.v.). 
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