BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
There is only one technical name introduced and that is the genus name Alectura. 
Index volume published in 1828. 
Latham lived some years after this was completed, dying in 1837 at the extreme 
age of 97. Obituaries appeared in most of the scientific periodicals of that date. 
Latham’s General Synopsis of Birds was translated into German by Bechstein (q.v.), 
and there is a French edition of the Index by Johanneau, published at Paris in 1809. 
Latjgier, Meiffren, Baron de Chartrouse.— Associated with Temminck (q.v.) in the 
publication of the Nouveau Recueil de planches coloriees d’Oiseaux. 
Catalogue Birds, 1836. 
Graucalus choucari. 
Lau, Hermann. —Queensland observer whose MS. notes are incorporated by Campbell in 
his Nests and Eggs, Austr. Birds. 
Laubmann, Alfred. —Born Oct. 20th, 1886. Archiv. fur Naturg. (Wiegmann) 85 Jahr, 
1919, pp. 137-168, August 1920. Kritische Untersuchungen fiber die Genotvp- 
fhrierungen in Lesson’s “ Manuel d’Ornithologie, 1828.” 
Lawson, Frederick.— See Frederick Lawson Whitlock. 
Emu, Vol. IV., p. 129, July 1905. 
A Visit to Rottnest Island, W.A., pp. 129-132. 
Cladorhynchus australis (error only). 
Layard, Edgar Leopold. —Bom July 23rd, 1824. Died Jan. 1st, 1900. Great English 
Naturalist who wherever he happened to be, South Africa, Ceylon, Fiji, New Caledonia, 
made collections and published good results. 
The only reference I quote is Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1878, p. 655, Oct. 1st. 
Glyciphila gouldi. 
Leach, John Albert. —Present-day Australian Ornithologist. Editor of the Emu and 
energetic worker on the Check List Committee. Author of the popular 44 Bird Book,” 
An Australian Bird Book, 12mo, Melbourne, 1911. 
A delightful little pocket-book which, on account of its small size, does not receive 
the appreciation from technical workers that it deserves, though it is pleasing to see 
that it has been popularly acclaimed and many thousands have been sold. 
Leach, William Elford. —Bom 1790. Died Aug. 25th, 1836. Keeper of Zoology in 
the British Museum. Great Zoologist who named the objects in the Museum 
and allowed other w r orkers to publish these names; these were correctly 
ascribed to Leach, but MS. was not attached, and consequently there is 
great difficulty to-day in tracing the first authority to use the name in literature. 
Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that 
are preserved in the British Museum, 4to, London, pref. Aug. 1816. 
This has been a great source of trouble to the systematic ornithologist, as apparently 
it was a label-list, simply printed for use in the Museum and sent out to a few friends 
by Leach. As far as I can trace it was never published in the technical sense of the 
word. There is no record in the British Museum of the sale of any copies ; although 
Engelmann includes it no price is given; Wood does not include it in his Catalogue 
of Natural History Books. Forster states it was printed, and the copies I have seen 
are either clean remainders in the British Museum or else presentation copies. It is 
very unfortunate that the ultra-prioritarians of the past generation should have 
reprinted it, as from the preface they recognised that it was an unpublished label-list 
only. 
The names invented by Leach and printed in this label-list are legitimately 
introduced by Forster (^.t;.). 
Zoological Miscellany (q.v.). 
Vol. L, Polophilus with P. variegatus, P. leucogaster (not Austr.), Pipra desmaretii , 
Certhia australasice. 
Vol. II., Dacelo. 
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