THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
1,074, 1 pi., Aug. 29th, 1903 ; Fasc. XV., pp. 1,075-1,169, Feb. 6th, 1904; Fasc. XVI. 
and XVII., pp. 1,171-1,339, pp. i.-x. (post face dated July, 1904), Aug. 27th, 1904. 
The only name I quote is Acrocephalus gouldi. 
Bull. Soc. Zool. France, XXXVII., pp. 1-303 ; XXXVIII., pp. 101-115, 1913. 
Coup d’ceil sur les oiseaux ratites. 
Edquist, Alfred George. —Born Dec. 23rd, 1873. Supervisor of Nature Study in 
Adelaide. Formerly Lecturer in Nature Study. 
Elliot, Daniel Giraud. —Famous American Ornithologist. Born March 7th, 1835. Died 
Dec. 22nd, 1915. Memoir in Auk, 1916, p. 230 ; Ibis, 1916, p. 342. Wrote important 
Monographs, only one of which concerns us : 
Monograph of the Pittidse. 
Preface November 1862, published as one item in 1863. Copy in Brit. Mus.,Nat. 
Hist., has a title-page dated 1867 (?). 
Second edition was issued in five parts, 1893-95. Part I., April 1893 ; pt. 2, Dec. 
1893 ; pt. 3, Feb. 1894; pt. 4, Sept. 1894; pt. 5, Jan. 1895. 
Pvlchripitta occurs in 2nd edition, pt. 5. 
Ibis, 1870, July. 
Pitta strenua . 
Ellis, William W.—Painter who was engaged on Cook’s Last Voyage. Authentic Narrative 
of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke in the “ Resolution” and 
“ Discovery,” 1776-80. Folding chart and 21 engravings, 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1782. 
Motacilla cyanea has been quoted from this book where it is merely a nomen nudum . 
Ellis’s drawings of Natural History are preserved in the British Museum (Natural 
History) and were reported upon by Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., 
pp. 199-208, 1906. The paintings number ninety-six, and include some of Australian 
Birds made at “ Adventure Bay, New Holland,” i.e., Tasmania, dated 1777. Suchare: 
No. 16, Parrot, basis of P. caledonicus Gmelin ex Latham in error. 
No. 67, Plover, which through confusion with No. 63, a Red-necked Phalarope, was 
made the basis of the Red-necked Plover by Latham, i.e., C. rubricollis Gmelin. 
No. 78, named New Holland Thrush by Latham and Turdus novcehollandice Gmelin, 
is the Tasmanian Graucalus. 
No. 95 is the Superb Warbler of Tasmania, Motacilla cyanea Ellis, n.n., then of Latham 
and Gmelin. 
Petrels are painted on Nos. 39—44, the last named being of an Albatross localized as 
“ At sea between Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand,” while No. 57 “ At sea between 
New Zealand and Modieu ” is the basis of Latham’s description of his Striated Tern, 
i.e., Sterna striata Gmelin. 
Elsey, Joseph Ravenscroft. —Born 1833 (?). Died 1S57. Accompanied A. C. Gregory’s 
Expedition across Northern Australia, and whose fate is sympathetically related by 
Gouldin his Handbook, p. 329. Gould describedfrom Elsey’s collection Maluruscoronatus , 
Poecilodryas cerviniventris and Psephotus chrysopterygius, and Elsey is also mentioned in 
connection with Cacatua galerita and Plotus novcehollandice. It may be noted that 
Elsey did not collect the type of Cinclosoma marginatum Sharpe, as given by Sharpe. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1857, pp. 23-29, June 6th. 
Letter to Gould from the Victoria River Depot (17° 24' 30°), North-west Australia, 
date June 1856. 
Through misreading Elsey’s initials this is ascribed to M. Elsey. 
In tins interesting account Elsey mentions that he has collected 103 species, some 
of which he regarded as new. 
Emu. —The periodical of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union published quarterly, 
the first number being issued in October 1901, three numbers constituting the first 
volume, and then four each succeeding volume, the numbers being July, October, 
January and April, generally on or about the first of the month. 
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