THE BIRDS OP AUSTRALIA. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. I., pp. 131—132, 2 pis., May 1821. 
Descriptions of three Species of the genus, Glareola, Glareola orientalis, Glareda 
australis. 
Leadbeater or Leadbeter. —A London dealer in the beginning of the last century after 
whom Plyctolophus leadbeateri Vigors (the Wee Juggler) was named, and for whom 
Gould described Platycercus ignitus , which proved to be a hybrid or aberration. 
Lear, Edward. —Born 1812. Died 1888. Illustrations of the Psittacidae, folio, London, 1832. 
This work appears in one volume with the plates arranged in a regular manner, but 
it was issued in twelve parts from 1830 to 1832 ; the contents of each part I have 
given in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pp. 23-24, Jan. 2nd, 1912, and the ones that 
here concern us are : Trichoglossus versicolor , pt. vn., Palceornis anthopeplus, pt. vm., 
Platycercus palliceps , pt. xn., CalyptorJiynchus baudinii, pt. xn , and Palceornis mdanura, 
pt. xn. Plyctolophus leadbeateri appeared in pt. vr., Aug. 1st, 1831, but had been 
described by Vigors in the Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1831, p. 61, which appeared 
June 4th, 1831. 
Vigors has been often quoted as the authority for all the names published in Lear’s 
book, but as there is no indication to this effect anywhere on the plates, I quote the 
names as of Lear. The dates of publication of the parts are : Pt. 1, 3 pis., Nov. 1st, 
1830 ; pt. 2, 4 pis., Nov. 1st (prob. Dec.), 1830 ; pt. 3, 3 pis., Jan. 1st, 1831; pt. 4, 
4 pis., Feb. 1st, 1831 ; pt. 5, 3 pis., May 1st, 1831 ; pt. 6, 4 pis., Aug. 1st, 1831; pt. 7, 
3 pis., Sept. 1st, 1831 ; pt. 8, 3 pis., Oct. 1st, 1831 ; pt. 9, 4 pis., pt. 10, 4 pis., pt. 11, 
3 pis., and pt. 12, 4 pis., bear no date, and the title-page, dated 1832, was issued with 
the last part. 
Leem, Knud. —Bom 1697. Died 1774. Beskrivelse over Finmarken’s Lapper, 4to, (pref. 
January 29bh) 1767. 
Gunnerus ( q.v .) described the natural history objects in this work. 
Scolopax nebularia. 
Legge, William Vincent. —Great British Ornithologist who is famed for his Birds of 
Ceylon. Born Sept. 1841, died in Tasmania, March 25th, 1918, where he was bom. 
Obituary, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 77, 1918. 
Contributed good articles on Tasmanian Birds to the Emu, Victorian Naturalist 
and Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasmania. 
Papers, Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasm., 1886, pp. 234-245, 1887. 
Systematic List of Tasmanian Birds. 
Acanthornis was introduced here. 
A second edition of the Systematic List appeared in the same periodical for 1900. 
Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XIII., Oct. 8th, 1896. 
Sericornis gularis. 
Emu, Vol. VI. pp. 116-119. Jan. 1st, 1907. 
The Emus of Tasmania and King Island. 
Dromceus bassi. 
Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm. —Born 1813. Died 1848 (?). A German Explorer who 
crossed Northern Australia, and was accompanied by Gilbert, Gould’s famous collector, 
who was speared on the journey. Leichhardt did not know how to deal with the 
natives and after his successful trip undertook another from which he never returned, 
nor was any authentic account of his loss ever made known. 
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington 
during the years 1844-45, Svo, London, 1847. 
Otis novcehollandice , n.n. 
A German translation was also published b}" E. A. Zuchold, Tagebuch einer Landreise 
in Australien, 8vo, Halle, 1851, who also published Eine biographische Skizze in 1856. 
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