THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
p. 5, Calyptorhynchus xantlianotus , Platycercus hcematonotus, Meliphaga sericeola, M. 
inornata , Anthochcera lunulata ; p. 6, Glyciphila (?) ocularis , (?. (?) subocularis , jEgialitis 
(?) canus, Hcematopus australasianus , Rhynchcea australis , Numenius australasianus : 
p. 7, Platalea regia , P. flavipes , Pus strictipennis , Sterna melanura , /SMa rubripes , 
Puffinus assimilisy Phalacrocorax carboides , P. leucogaster ; p. 8, P. flavirhynchus. 
Having started the Synopsis on the way he began his folio work on the Birds of 
Australia and the Adjacent Islands. Two parts were published, one in August 1837. the 
other in February 1838, when he stopped it and went to Australia, promising subscri¬ 
ber to provide new parts on his return, when these two parts would be cancelled. This 
-was done and these cancelled parts are rare, the subscribers adopting Gould's suggestion 
and not binding these two with the later ones. These original parts are very interesting, ^ 
as they contain new species : pt. i., Malurus elegans and genus name Chlamydera • 
pt. n., Dacelo cervind , Pitta vigorsii (not Australian), Platycercus licematogasiePmi 
Myzomda nigra. 
These parts were published at the dates given, as part i. was reviewed in the Mag. 
Zool. Bot. (Jardine), Oct. 1837, in which reviews were months late, and pt. n. in the 
Annals Nat. Hist., Vol. I., May 1838, in which also the reviews were late. 
Upon Gould's return from Australia he began his folio Birds of Australia again and 
published it regularly every three months until the last four numbers. Thus part 1 
was published Dec. 1st, 1840 ; pt. 2, March 1st, 1841; pt. 3, June 1st, 1841; pt. 4, Sept. 
1st, 1841 ; pt. 5, Dec. 1st, 1841, and pt. 6, March 1st, 1842. These six numbers were 
reviewed in the Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX., p. 337, published June 1st, 1842: 
pt. 7, June 1st, 1842 ; pt. 8, Sept. 1st, 1842 ; pt. 9, Dec. 1st, 1842 ; pts. 8 and 9, 
reviewed Annals, Jan. 1843 ; pt 10, March 1st, 1843 ; pt. 11, June 1st, 1843; pt. 12. 
Sept. 1st, 1843 ; pt. 13, Dec. 1st, 1843; pt. 14, March 1st, 1844; pt. 15, June 1st, 
1844; pt. 16, Sept. 1st, 1844 ; pt. 17, Dec. 1st, 1844; pt. 18, March 1st, 1845; pt. 19, 
June 1st, 1845 ; pt. 20, Sept. 1st, 1845 ; pt. 21, Dec. 1st, 1845 ; pt. 22, March 1st, 1846; 
pt. 23, June 1st, 1846 ; pt. 24, Sept. 1st, 1846 ; pt. 25, Dec. 1st, 1846 ; pt. 26, March 1st, 
1847 ; pt. 27, June 1st, 1847 ; pt. 28, Sept. 1st, 1847; pt. 29, Dec. 1st, 1847; pt. 30, 
March 1st, 1848 ; pt. 31, June 1st, 1848 ; pt. 32, Sept. 1st, 1848, and then pt. 33, 
pt. 34, pt. 35 and pt. 36 are all dated Dec. 1st, 1848. 
Recently I noted that this work w r as commented upon by Blyth in the Journal Asiatic 
Society of Bengal; in Feb. 1846 he acknowledged receipt of first nineteen numbers, 
at the March meeting pt. 20, the May meeting pt. 21, the Sept, meeting pt. 22, and the 
November meeting pt. 23. This agrees with the dates, as they were only shipped to 
the Society as opportunity offered. Then in April 1848 the 28th and 29th parts were 
reported, but in January 1849 the Society had received parts 35 and 36. 
Gould published the Introduction to the Work in octavo form for correction before 
he set it up in folio. This 8vo Introduction -was published Aug. 1st, 1848, so that 
apparently pt. 36 w r as completed at that date, and apparently the last five parts were 
sent out soon after Sept. 1st, 1848, being dated Dec. 1st, 1848, for purposes of payment, 
etc. 
Through Gould’s regular issue his -work got ahead of the scientific periodicals to 
which he sent descriptions of the new species he -was figuring, and very many names 
must be cited from this place instead of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society as 
usually quoted. 
Gould soon began a Supplement which appeared in five parts over an interval of 
eighteen years, pt. 1 being issued March 15th, 1851; pt. 2, Sept. 1st, 1855; pt. 3, 
Sept. 1st, 1859 ; p. 4, Dec. 1st, 1867, and pt. 5, Aug 1st, 1869. 
The new names to be quoted and the parts in w r hich they occur are as follows in the 
order of my List :— 
Mcgapodius tumulus (pt. vi.), Leipoa with L. ocellata (pt. i.), Synoicus (pt. xn.), 
Synoicus diemenensis (pt. xxvi.), Hemipodius pyrrhothorax (pt. n.), Hemipodius velox 
(pt. ii.), Pedionomus with P. torquatus (pt. i.), Ptilinopus swainsonii (pt. vn.), Pt. 
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