BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
tuition and his own aptitude. Gould was a fine judge of colour and form and was 
emphatic in his discrimination of forms on account of geographical distances. He 
named as species numerous geographical forms and to-day w T ould have named hundreds 
of subspecies, as he was careful to note such w r ere abundant. He was also concerned 
with the differentiation of genera, and his location of many Australian birds was better 
than those of his successors who wrote up the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. 
He was also a progressive worker and was ready to alter any name, even his own, 
should the claims of priority demand the alteration. 
A Biographical Memoir is included in Sharpe's Analytical Index to Gould's Works, 
and this was reproduced with a portrait in the first volume of Campbell's Nests and 
Eggs of Australian Birds, a work easily accessible to Australian ornithologists. 
Gould published most of his descriptions in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
of London, but that periodical was issued erratically and became later each year, so 
that Gould's plates came out in his own work before the supposed preliminary descrip¬ 
tion appeared. I am giving here both accounts so that easy comparison may be made. 
Gould's first work in connection with Australian birds is “ A Synopsis of the Birds of 
Australia and the Adjacent Islands," which was published in four parts, 4to, London, 
1837-1838. The first part is dated January 1837, and was published at that date, as it 
was reviewed in the Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth) for Jan. 1837, p. 51; the second 
number is dated April 1837, and it appeared to date, as it is reviewed in the same 
place in the May number, the Magazine appearing every two months; the last two are 
both dated April 1838, and were issued together as Gould intended sailing for Australia. 
The new species are numerous. Part i. : Ocypterus superciliosus , Vanga cinerea , 
Vang a nigrogularis, Cracticus hypoleucus, Coronica with C. fuliginosa, Calodera with 
C. maculata , Petroica phoenicea , Struthidea with S. cinerea , Amadina castanotis , A . 
ruficauda , A. modest a, (Neomorpha with N. acutirostris and A. crassirostris , N.Z.), 
Tropidorhynchus citreogularis, Meliphaga penicillata , M. sericea , Hcematops with H. 
validirostris , H. gularis , Zosterops tenuirostris (N.S.W. error=Norfoik I.), Z. albogularis 
(N.S.W. error=Norfolk I.), Podiceps gularis , P. nestor. 
Part n. : Amadina cincta , A. castaneothorax, Pardalotus afjinis , Platycercus ftaveolus, 
P. ignitus Leadbeater, Nanodes elegans , Meliphaga fusca , Acanthorhynchus with A. 
superciliosus , A. dubius , Goturnix pectoralis , Hemipodius mdanotus , H . melanogaster , 
Himantopus palmatus , H. leucocephalus , Oxyura australis , Sterna macrotorsa , S. poliocerca . 
Part m. : Haliceetus sphenurus, H. leucostermis, Pandion leucocephalus [Falco 
brunnea , N.Z.), Falco frontatus , F. melanogenys , Ieracidea , n.g., Lepidogenys with L. 
subcristatus , Milvus afjinis, M. isnrus , Circles jardinii , Athene (?) fortis , Athene (?) 
strenua , Pacliycephala xanthoprocta (N.S.W. error=Norfolk I.), P. longirostra (N.S.W. 
error=Norfoik I.). 
Part iv.: Graucalus parvirostris , G. melanotis , G. swainsonii , Sericornis with 
S. parvulus , S. humilis , S. citreogularis , Acanthiza diemenensis , A. lineata , A. uropygialis , 
A. magnirostra, Psilopus with P. brevirostris, P. fuscus, P. olivaceus , P. albogularis , 
Pardalotus guadragintus , P. mdanocephalus , P. rubricatus , Sphenostoma with S. cristatum , 
Sittella leucocephala , $. pileata , melanocephala , Acanthagenys with A. rufogularis , 
Plectorhyncha with P. lanceolata, Entomophila with E. pida, Ptilotis omatus , P. flavigula , 
Erythrogonys with E. cinctus. 
In Part iv. as an Appendix was included a paper entitled “ Descriptions of new species 
of Australian Birds, principally in the author’s collection, with characters of several 
new genera." This was part of a paper read before the Zoological Society at the meeting 
of Dec. 26th, 1837. It consists of eight pages, the new names being : p. 1, Elanus notatus , 
Halcyon incindus, Eurostopodus , Myiagra nitida ; p. 2, Ceblepyris humeralis , Falcuncidus 
leucogaster, Falcunculus flavigulus , Eopsaltria parvulus , P. griseogularis, Sericulus 
magnirostris ; p. 3, Oreocincla with 0. macrorhyncha , Symmorphus with S. leucopygus , 
Petroica modesta , Origma , Epthianura ; p. 4, P. aurifrons , Malurus longicaudus , 
Ciridoramphus , Dasyornis (?) brunneus , Galamanthus , Cysticola ruficeps , Oreoica ; 
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