BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Acloque, Alexandre. —Bom 1871. Faune de France, Oiseaux, Vol. I., pp. 87-336, Paris, 
1900 : Eucircus , Eufalco. 
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe. —Born 1807. Died 1873. Nomenclator Zoologicus, 4to, 
1842-46. An attempt to give the names used in Zoology up-to-date ; with the assistance # 
of well-known specialists a basis was provided ; thus J. E. Gray, Bonaparte, etc., provided 
the Aves which appeared in 1842. Nomencl. Zool. Index Universalis, a name list 
only, in 12mo, was issued in 1848. 
Agric. Gazette , New South Wales. —A monthly periodical dealing with agricultural matters 
to which North contributed a series of articles concerning useful and insectivorous 
birds, and in such an unsatisfactory vehicle took the opportunity of describing new 
species and genera. These are Acantliiza mastersi (Vol. XII., 1901), Oreoscopus (Vol. 
XVI., 1905), Ashbyia and A. lovei (nom. mut.) (Vol. XXII., 1911) and Dacelo 
mclennani (Vol. XXII., 1911). 
Alexander, Wilfred Backhouse. —Born 1885. Australian Zoologist who has contributed 
useful articles to the Emu, such as the White-winged Terns in Western Australia and a 
List of the Birds of the Perth District. More impo^ant, however, is the series of 
papers entitled The History of Zoology in Western Australia, of which Part I. appeared 
in the Joum. West Australia Nat. Hist, and Sci. Soc., Vol. V., pp. 49-64, 1914, dealing 
with the records up to and including Dampier ; Part II., covering the period 1791-1829, 
and recording the bird notes of Vancouver, Peron and King, was published in the Journ. 
Ro;v. Soc. W.A., Vol. I., for 1914-15, pp. 83-149, 19i.6 ; while Part III., years 
1829-1S40, came out in the same Journal, Vol. III. (pp. 1-33 in reprint), 1917, and 
included Quoy and Gaimard’s notes a a well as those by G. Grey, Stokes, etc. 
Allen, Joel Asaph. —Famous American Zoologist who only recently died, aged 83, 1838- 
1921 (Auk, Jan., 1922, pp. 1-14, for Memoir). In the Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, three 
papers appeared which must be here recorded :— 
The Types of the North American Genera of Birds, Vol. XXIII., pp. 279-384, 
April 15th, 1907. 
A List of the Genera and Subgenera of North American Birds, with their Types, 
according to Article 30 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 
Vol. XXIV., pp. 1-50, Dec. 26th, 1907. 
Collation of Brisson’s Genera of Birds with those of Linnseus, Vol. XXVIII., pp. 
317-335, Nov. 11th, 1910. 
As these articles were prepared in Dr. Allen’s old age the numerous errors of 
commission and omission may be pardoned. 
Allg. Lit . Zeitung (Jena), 1804, Vol. II., pp. 168, col. 542, June 8th, 1804.—This periodical 
must be cited owing to the discovery by Richmond (3, p. 581, footnote) of a review 
of Bechstein’s Ornith. Taschenb., wherein new names are proposed for certain bird 
groups. Calidris and Canutus. 
Anahjst .—An English periodical begun as a monthly on August 1st, 1834, printed at 
Worcester, but published in London, and at the end of one year (two volumes, 
six numbers to a volume) removed to Birmingham, but still published in London as a 
quarterly; first quarterly number, but consecutively No. 9, on October 1st, 1835, two 
quarterly parts to a volume, Vols. III. to VIII., Vols. IX. and X., each three parts, 
when it suspended publication in 1840. It was called “ A Journal of Science, 
VOL XII. 
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