THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Was a friend of Gould and when monographing Ducks they used each other’s manuscript 
names, so that we have Leptotarsis eytoni Eyton, and Dendrocygna gouldi Gould, each 
publishing the dedicatory species of the other to himself. Eyton was a very poor 
proof-reader. 
A History of the Rarer British Birds, 8vo, London, pref. March 1st, 1836. 
A Catalogue of British Birds, 8vo, London, pref. Jan. 20th, 1836. 
These are commonly found bound together, but sometimes the names in the Catalogue 
have been preferred to those in the History. 
The facts appear to be that the two together were published in three parts: Part I., 
published in Jan. 1836 was the History, pp. 1-48; Peart II., published Feb. 1836, was the 
History, pp. 49-80 and Catalogue, pp. 1-24, and Part III., was the Catalogue, pp. 25-67, 
V.-VI. and History, pp. 81-101, published March 1836, when the whole lot was bound 
up, and with a preface, also published in March 1836, as one item. 
Chroicocephalus appears in this work, c/. Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 455. 
A Monograph of the Anatidae, 4to, London, June 1838. 
Choristopus , GJieniscus , Leptotarsis with L . eytoni , Mareca castanea, Nyroca australis. 
Lewin’s Nat. Hist. Birds N.S. Wales was republished in 1838 under the editorship 
of Eyton. 
Osteologia Avium, 4to, London, 1867-1869. 
Published in parts. 
Fauna Boreali-Americana. —Birds by W. Swainson and J. Richardson. 4to, London, 
“ 1831.” Introd. dated July 1831, and was not published until Feb. 1832. 
Falcunculus frontalis , Gollurisoma , Phosphodes , Eopsaltria , Erucivora. 
Field, Barron. —Born 1786. Died 1846. Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales 
by various hands. 8vo, London, May 1825. 
On pp. 501-504 is a “ Glossary of the most common productions in the Natural History 
of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land,” twenty-eight birds being included. 
Alcedo onocrotalus. ( Ardea antigone , n.n.) 
Ferguson, Eustace W.—Australian Ornithologist of the present day who has contributed 
good observations on Petrels to the Emu very recently (Vol. XXI.). 
Finsch, Friedrich Hermann Otto. —Born 1839. Died 1917. Great German Ornitholo¬ 
gist who journej'ed through the Pacific Isles and New Guinea as an ornithologist 
and then as a political agent, advising and attending to the annexation of suitable 
places. 
Die Papageien, 2 vols., 8vo, 1867-8. 
Vol. I. reviewed Aug. 1867 ; Vol. II. in two parts, pref. Aug. 8th, 1868. 
Very complete monograph of Parrots. 
Plictolophus rhodolorus . 
Neu-Guinea, 1 vol., 8vo, pref. Aug. 1864, 1865. 
Journ. fur Ornith., 1867, Sept., p. 305. 
Walther Buller’s “ Verzuch fiber die Ornithologie Neu-Seelands,” ubersetzt und 
mit kritischen Anmerkungen versehen. A scientific criticism of Buller’s Essay on 
New Zealand Ornithology which brought that little Essay to the notice of European 
ornithologists. 
Antliochcera bulleri. 
Finsch monographed the Zosteropidae in Das Tierreich, 8vo, Berlin, March 1901. 
Fischer, de Waldheim Gotthelf.— Born 1771. Died 1852. Das National Museum der 
Naturgeschichte zu Paris, 2 vols., Frankfort on Main, 1802, 1803. 
Vol. I., reviewed Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom., Paris, III., No. 67=Nov. 1802. 
Pomarinus . 
Fitzinger, Leopold Franz Johann.— Born 1802. Died 1884. Sitz. Math. Nat. Akad. 
Wissen. Wien., Bd. XLVI, 
Myiophila . 
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