THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 
Isis, 1845, heft 5, col. 323-358, May. 
Das Stiftungsfest der naturforschenden Gesellschaft des Osterlandes in Altenburg, 
am 5 Julius 1843, und etwas uber die Vogel Griechenlands und Australiens. 
Aquila cuneicaudata , Corvus a ffinis, Corvus fuliginosus, Glottis albicollis,(Edicnemus 
major , Gerchneis immaculata, Ginura and G. torquata. 
Der Vogelfang. 8vo, Leipzig, 1836. 
Vollstandige Vogelfang (Eine grundliche Anleitung aller europaischen Vogel). 8vo. 
Weimar, 1855 (pref. Nov. 8th, 1854). 
JEgialitis gigas, Totanus graciliSy Actitis megarhynchoSy Numenius australis , 
Gharadrius longipes. 
Naumannia, 1855. 
Verzeichniss der europaischen Vogel nach den Species und Subspecies, pp. 266-271, 
pp. 273-300 (after July). < 
Plegadornis. 
Allg. Deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung. Neue Folge, Bd. II., heft 1, pp. 1-21, and heft 2, 
pp. 41-67, 1856. 
Neue Vogelarten von A. und O. Brehm und einige undre merkwundige noch nicht 
gehorig beschriebene Vogel. 
Aquilastur . 
Brehm, Alfred Edmund. —Born 1829. Died 1884. More famous as a popular writer, 
Brehm’s Das Leben der Vogel, translated into English as Bird-Life being a very well 
known work. 
Naumannia, 1855, heft 1, pp. 1-28. 
Beitrage zur Omithologie Nord-Ost-Afrika’s. 
Verzeichniss Sammlung von C. L. Brehm, 8vo, 1866. 
Actitis cinclus major and minor , Tqtanus glareola vulgaris . 
Breton, H. W. (Lieut., R.N .).— Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and 
Van Diemen's Land, 1830-33, 8vo, London, 1833. 
Presented specimens to the Zoological Society of London which were described by 
Gould, who referred to him under Biziura lobata. 
Brisson, Mathurin Jacques. —Famous French Ornithologist who afterwards turned his 
attention to Physics and became even more famous in that science. Born April 30th, 
1723, died June 23rd, 1806. Obituary notice by Delambre in Mem. Inst. Sci. Math. 
Phys. Paris, 2nd Sem., 1806 ; Hist., pp. 189-205. 
Omithologia, 6 vols., 4to, Paris, 1760. 
These six volumes contain over 4,000 pages and 261 plates and -were published in one 
item. The author was not a binomialist, but was an excellent ornithologist, and for 
that reason his generic names are admitted. 
Casuarius, Gallinula , Porphyrio , ( Colymbus ), Pufjinus, (Albatrus), Stercorarius , 
(Arenaria), (Ostralega), Pluvialis , Himantopus , Avocetta, Numenius , Limosa, Glareola , 
Phalacrocorax, Anhinga, Sula, Accipiter. 
A condensed account in Latin without plates v r as published in 2 vols., 8vo, at Leyden, 
in 1763. Allen published a Collation of Brisson J s Genera of Birds with those of 
Linnseus, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXVDX, pp. 317-335, Nov. 11th, 1910. 
British Museum Publications. —See under Catalogue Birds B.M., Gray, G. R.; Gray, 
J. E., and Sharpe, R. B. For some dates see Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pp. 11-12,1922. 
Broadbent, Kendall. —Australian Ornithologist. Born 1837. Died Jan. 16th, 1911. 
Obituary notice in Emu, Vol. XI., p. 62, 1911. 
Collected Ninox lurida , Colluricincla boweri, Ptilotis frenata, etc., etc. Wrote several 
papers in the Proc. Queensl. Roy. Soc., as On the Migration of Birds in Cape York 
Peninsula, Birds of the Chinchilla District, Birds of Charleville, Birds of the central 
part of Queensland, etc., and a recent one in the Emu, Vol. X., 1910, p. 233, & seq., on 
Birds of the Cardwell and Herbert River Districts (N.Q.), collected from August, 1888, 
to March, 1889. 
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