THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Gray, John Edward. —Great English Zoologist, born 1800, died 1875. Head of the 
British Museum who wrote on every subject, and not with much care as to the names 
used. Named specimens in British Museum without publication, hence confusion and 
little certainty in some cases. 
The Zoological Miscellany, 8vo, London. 
To be continued occasionally. The first part, pp. 1-40, was issued in 1831 and 
received by the Geological Society on or before Feb. 19th. 
This part contains Alectura lathami , Scolopax hardwickii , Tringa ( Pelidna) chinensis. 
Pages 41-48, sign. March 1842 ; pp. 49-56, sign. April 1842 ; pp. 57-72, sign. May 
1842 ; pp. 73-80, sign. June 1842. It is not yet definitely known whether these came 
out as paged or in one lot. 
Then pp. 81-86 cover a Catalogue of Nipalese Birds, collected between 1824 and 1844 
by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. This is dated June 29th, 1844, and the signature is June 1844. 
Most of the new names are nomina nuda or substitute names. 
Monornis , n.n., Totanus glareoides , n.n., Dentiger , Cichlops, n.n., Plocealauda, 
n.n., have been quoted. 
Named the birds in Griffith’s Animal Kingdom (q.v.). 
Emou y Aptenodytes australis , Crex plumbea , Otis australis are first introduced here, 
but scores of misprints, owing to Gray’s bad handwriting and worse proof reading, occur. 
Hardwicke’s Illustrations of Indian Zoology. 
These were issued by J. E. Gray in 20 pts. folio, between 1830-35. It is now only 
met with bound up in two volumes, and the contents of the parts are at present unknown. 
There is a prospectus in the Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Library which states it was to be 
published in parts, each part containing 10 coloured plates, price £1 Is., the first 
appearing on the 1st January 1830, and the remainder succeeding each other at the 
interval of three months. Mr. C. I). Sherborn has allowed me to copy from his MS. 
the dates of receipt of the parts by the Linnean Society: Pt. 1, Jan. 17th, 1830; 
pt. 2, April 23rd, 1830 ; pt. 3, July 15th, 1830 ; pt. 4, no record; pt. 5, Feb. 4th, 
1831 ; pt. 6, April 18th, 1831 ; pt. 7, no record ; pt. 8, Oct. 19bh, 1831 ; pt. 9, Dec. 
2nd, 1831 ; pt. 10, May 1st, 1832. The Dedication to Vol. I. covering these 10 parts 
is dated May 1832. Pt. 11, July 16th, 1823 ; pt. 12, Oct. 31st,’ 1832 ; pts. 13 and 14, 
May 3rd, 1834 ; pts. 15-18, Oct. 1st, 1834 ; pts. 19-20, June 20th, 1837 (this last date 
being obviously too late) ; the titles dated 1830-1834. Totanus lathami occurs here. 
Gray, J. E. and Gray, G. R.—Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds of New Guinea in 
the collection of the British Museum, pref. Dec. 1st, 1858, 8vo, London, 1859. 
Contains distributional lists of New Guinea Birds and those of the neighbouring 
localities, one of which is “ North Australia to 14° Lat. S., Port Essington, C. York, etc.” 
A similar list is added to G. R. Gray’s Aru Island Bird paper in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.), 1858, pp. 195-198. 
Gregory, A. Charles. —Australian Explorer, on one of whose trips J. R. Elsey was 
naturalist. 
Gregory, Francis Thomas.— Another Australian Explorer, mentioned by Gould in connection 
with Lobivanellus personatus (Breaker Inlet), Xenorhynchus australis (Gascoyne River, 
Breaker Inlet), Herodias alba (De Grey River), and is given the credit of discovering 
Lophophaps ferruginea at the Gascoigne River and collected the type of Chbmydera 
guttata (? at the Gascoyne River). 
Grey, George (first Capt. then Sir). —Born 1812. Died 1898. Journals of Two Expeditions 
of Discovery in North-west and West Australia, 1837-39, 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1841. 
Appendix by Gould in which Gerygone is proposed for Psilopus , and Collocalia 
leucoslerna y Gotyle familiaris, Centropus affirms, Turtur spilonota, Fulica novcehpllandia 
appear as nomina nuda. 
Gould notes many species from G. Grey, but only Cracticus argenteus as alone collected 
by him. 
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