BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The three volumes, each in two parts, are sometimes referred to by early writers as 
six volumes. The only technical name quoted from this work is Motacilla cyanea , 
but whether Latham intended to publish a Latin version at once does not seem to be 
known. In 1787 he published a Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds, and 
in the Preface, dated May 1st, 1787, writes upon this subject as if he did not intend 
to publish a separate publication “ in the same manner as in the Systema Naturae of 
Linnseus.” 
In this Supplement, pp. 281-298, is included A List of the Birds of Great 
Britain, in which Latin names are given to all the species. See Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. V., pts. 2-3, pp. 61-63, 1923. From this date and place I quote Podiceps and 
Scolopax cineracea. 
Gmelin, in compiling his edition of Linne, latinised the whole of the bird descriptions 
in the General Synopsis of Birds, and thus gains the credit of quotation as the authority 
of species which were determined and completely described in English by Latham. 
Index Ornithologicus, 4to, 2 vols., London, 1790. 
This was acknowledged on Dec. 9th by the Philos. Soc., London. 
Whether Latham published this on account of Gmelin’s edition, or he had prepared 
it first is doubtful, but this is the separate publication suggested but never promised 
before Gmelin’s work came out. 
Though called two volumes, the pagination is continuous. Vol. I., pp. 1-466, Vol. 
II., pp. 467-920. 
Notwithstanding Gmelin’s latinisation of the whole of the Synopsis new species, 
Latham, through the energy of the English explorers, was able to add quite a number 
of new species, and the following date from this work :— 
Casmrius novcehollandice, Procellaria marina , P. forsteri , Scolopax terek , Mycteria 
asiatica , Ardea novcehollandice, Arden flavicollis, Columba chalcoptera. Psittacus semi - 
collaris , P. australis , P. pusillus, P. banksii, P. galeritus, P. pennantii , P. adscitus, 
P. chrysogaster, P. formosus , Anas air at a, Caprimulgus novcehollandice , Scythrops with 
S. novcehollandice , Alcedo gig ant ea, Buceros orientalis, Buceros griseus (not Austr.), 
Gracula icterops (not Austr.), Colius viridis (not Austr.), Sylvia minima , Sylvia 
canescens , Lanius fuscus , Todus flavigaster , Gerthia novcehollandice , Merops carunculatus , 
Merops corniculatus, Coracias strepera. 
Some of these names clash with those in the accounts of the Voyages, such as White, 
Phillips, etc., of which the ornithology was worked out, the former by Shaw, the latter 
by Latham himself. It should also be recorded that Latham drew all the plates for the 
General Synopsis on stone himself, mostly from his own sketches. Later, his daughter 
made drawings and paintings for him, and a series is now in the British Museum, 
Nat. Hist. These were discovered by myself a few years ago. 
Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds, London, 4to, 1801. 
Supplomentum Indicis Omithologici, 1801. 
These two are generally found bound together, the latter being the equivalent of 
the former in the Latin language. The plates in the former are all dated May 30th, 
1801, and they came out some time after that date. Some copies of the latter have 
been met with bearing the date 1802, and it is entered in the English Catalogue as 
appearing in July 1802, which suggests two issues. 
This is the work which mo 3 t interests Australians, as it is based upon three volumes 
of paintings of Australian birds loaned to Latham by the Earl of Derby, which were 
formerly the property of A. B. Lambert (q.v.). 
The new names proposed are here given in the order of the Supplement:— 
Yultur audax, Falco albicilla var., F. axillaris, F . nisus var., F. mdanops, F. radiatus , 
F. pacificus , F. lunulatus , F. clarus, Strix boobook , S . undulata, Lanius torquatus, L. 
robustus, L. erectus, L. frontatus , L. flavigaster , Psittacus tabuensis var., P . discolor, 
P. verticalis , P. galeatus, Corvus melanops , G. melanogaster , G. versicolor, G. cyanoleucus , 
C. melanoleucus , C. olivaceus , Coracias sagittata , Coracias tibicen , G. pacifica , Gracula 
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