THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Catalogue des genres et sous-genres d’Oiseaux contenus dans le Museum Britannique 
par M. Georges R. Gray. 
Vol. XLI., No. 17, Seance, Oct. 22nd, 1855, pp. 649-661. 
Issued also separately as a tract of 12 pp., but no new names occur. 
Bonaparte’s death was reported to the Academy at the Seance of Aug. 3rd, 1857 
(p. 153), and later a “ Tableaux des genres des Gallinaces disposes en series parallels” 
was laid before the Academy by Geoffroy St. Hilaire and published in 
. Vol. XLV., No. 13, Seance, Sept. 28th, 1857, pp. 425-429. 
No separates of this have been seen and probably none were issued, so it is fortunate 
that there are no new names. 
Bonnaterre, Joseph Pierre. —Bom about 1752. Died 1804. Tableau Encyclopedique 
et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature Ornithologie. Original title page 1790. 
Later one 1823. 
The work was begun by the Abbe Bonnaterre and the Introduction, including the 
Classification, and pp. 1—320 of the Text issued, when Bonnaterre perished in the 
Revolution. Thirty years afterwards the work was completed by Vieillot. 
The dates of publication have been worked out by Sherbom (Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1893, p. 582, and 1899, p. 595) and his results are as follows :— 
Plates i.—ccxxxix. and i.-vn., and pp. i.-lxxx. 1 1790. 
Pages lxxxi.-xcviii. and 1-192. \ By Bonnaterre. 1791. 
Pages 193-320. J 1792. 
321-528 by Vieillot. Acknowledged B.P., Jan. 6th, 1821. 1820. 
529-848 July 6th, 1822. 1822. 
849-1,460 July 26th, 1823. 1823. 
This is all right except the publication of the plates, plates 1-230 and 1-7 double 
page being signed “ Benard direxit ” and these appeared in 1790. Plates Nos. 231-240 
are on different paper and signed “ Deserve del et dir 99 and “ Barrois sculp., Pierron 
sculp., Mile. Cornu and Drouet sculp.,” and these were not issued until 1820-1823, 
including figures of birds described as late as 1818. 
The new names proposed by Bonnaterre are Turnix , Coturnix , Procellaria latiroslris , 
Ostrelaga , Anser novcehollandi ce and Procellaria melanura. 
Vieillot used the articles on birds he had published in the Nouveau Dietionnaire 
d’Histoire Naturelle, nouv. ed., and added very few new names, none of which are 
quoted in Australian literature. 
Bose, Louis Augustin Guillaume.— Born Jan. 29th, 1759. Died July 10th, 1828. 
Journ. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. II., p. 297, pi. 39, 1792. (Also cited as Choix des Memoires.) 
Coturnix ypsilophorus. 
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. —Born 1729. Died 1814. Voyage autour du Monde. 
. . . Boudouse et l’Etoile : 4to, Paris, 1771. English translation by J. R. Forster, 
4to, London, 1772. German translation, 8vo, Leipzig, 1772. 
Bowdich, Thomas Edward. —Born 1791. Died 1824. An introduction to the ornithology 
of Cuvier for the use of students and travellers. 8vo, Paris, 1821. 
Contains 17 (21) lithographed plates of parts of birds made in the Paris Museum 
and includes a head of Prion . 
Bowyer-Bower, Thomas Henry.— Born 1862. Died Dec. 22nd, 1886. Brilliant young 
British Ornithologist who collected at Cairns, Queensland, and then at Derby, North¬ 
west Australia, the latter collection being reported upon by Ramsay, who named 
Malurus cruentatus boweri . He died at Palmerston, Northern Territory, on Dec. 22nd, 
1886, at the early age of twenty-four. I have given some notes on his Queensland 
collection in the South Austr. Ornith., Vol. II., pt. 1., Jan. 1915, p. 15, etc. 
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