THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Lacepede, Bernard Germain. Etienne de la Ville-sur-Illon, —French Zoologist, bom 
l)ec. 26th, 1756, died Oct. 6th, 1825. Memoirs in many scientific periodicals and 
separate^ by Virey, 1825, and Villenave, 1826. 
Tableau Oiseaux. Issued separately in 1799 and in the Mem. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, 
1801, has now quite a literature of its own, e.g., Richmond, Auk, 1899, p. 325, Sherbora 
Natural Science, 1899, p. 406, and Austral Ay. Rec., Vol. III., pp. 151-158, 1918. 
Simply new names accompanied by diagnoses, no species named, and characters 
ill determined. 
Rliea, Hydrogallina , Prion , Pelecanoides , Macrotarsus , Carbo , Fregata , Circus, Nisus, 
Milvus. 
These groups were accepted by Daudin and species attached to them in the Didot 
edition of Buffon (q.v.), and also in the Sonnini or Dufart edition of Buffon, the former 
being dated 1799, but appearing in 1802, the latter in 1804. 
La Fresnaye, Frederic de. —French Ornithologist. Died 1861. 
Mag. de Zool., 1833, pi. 14. 
Dicoeum perdalodus. 
Mag. de Zool., 1835, Ois., pi. 36. 
Description de TAnas tadornoides Will Jard. 
Anas kasarkoides. 
Mag. de Zool., 1836, Ois., pi. 57. 
Ibis lamellicollis , n. sp. 
Ibis lamellicollis . 
Revue Zoologie, 1840, Aug. no., p. 231, Sept. 
Descriptions de quelques nouvelles especes d’Oiseaux. 
Brachyptralius with B. ralloides . 
Catalogue Collection of the birds in his collection. A manuscript book of (?) 1863, 
now in my possession. It is important, as a name has been quoted from it. 
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke. —Born 1761. Died 1842. Employed by the Linnean Society, 
after whom Vigors and Horsfield named Malurus lamberti , but was the possessor of 
the ££ Lambert ” drawings which at his death passed into the possession of the Earl of 
Derby and were loaned to G. R. Gray, H. E. Strickland and Gould. Drawn by Watling 
and other artists, of Australian Birds, they were of great importance as being the basis 
of Latham's Supplement to the Index Ornithologicus (q.v.). 
Landbeck, Christian Ludwig. —Jahreshefte Vereins Naturkunde Wiirttemberg, Jahrg. 2, 
heft 2, 1846, pp. 212-238, after March 1847. 
Systematisches Verzeichniss der Vogel Wiirttembergs. 
Dromochelidon. 
Latham, John. —The greatest English Ornithologist since the time of Linne. Born 1740, 
died 1837. 
A General Synopsis of Birds, 4to, London. 
In the preface Latham proposes to comprise the work in three volumes, and the 
preface is dated Jan. 1st, 1781, the title-page is dated 1781, and it contains 416 pages; 
the next title-page is marked Vol. II. and dated 1782, but the pagination is continuous 
from pp. 417-788, succeeded by Directions for the Plates and Index, 32 pp. unpaged. 
The third volume is now entitled Vol. II., part 1st, 1783, and a new preface mentions 
the preceding two as the first volume ; this is dated Dec. 1st, 1783, and contains pp.1-366. 
Vol. II., part 2, is entitled 1783 and covers pp. 367-808, Directions for the Plates 
and unpaged Index of 36 pp. 
Vol. III., pt. i., is dated 1785, with preface Ma}^ 2nd, 1785, and pages 1-328 ; Vol. III., 
pt. ii., 1785, pp. 329-628, Directions for the Plates, Generic Catalogue, A Catalogue 
of the Principal Authors referred to in this work, Errata, and unpaged Index of 24 pages. 
This is all written in English and, as Latham observed, contained four times as many 
birds as Linne included. 
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