BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Leisler, Johann Phillip Achilles. —Died 1813. Nachtrage zu Pechstein’s Naturges- 
chichte Deutschlands, heft i. } pref. Nov. 1811, Hanau, 1812 ; heft n., 1815. 
This includes Tringa minuta, and it may be here noted that, previously, Leisler had 
contributed a different series of articles to the Annal. d. Wetter. Gesellsch. f.d. ges. 
Naturkunde, Bd. I., 1809, pp. 126-144, 286-293; Bd. II., 1811, pp. 335-347, under 
exactly the same title. 
Lepechin, Ivan. —Bom 1737 (?). Died 1802. Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Petrop., Vol. XIV., 
pt. i., p. 500, 1770. 
Descriptio quorundam animalium, pp. 498-511, 3 pis. 
In this paper Sterna Uchegrava was described, but it is now generally admitted that 
Lepechin was not a binomial writer, though some names have a binomial appearance. 
Leschenault, Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore de la Tour. —Bom 1773. Died 
1826. French Naturalist who collected in India, and whose birds were sometimes 
named by Lesson, e.g., Charadrius lesckenaultii. 
Le Soijef, William Henry Dudley. —Born Sept. 28th, 1856. Died Sept. 6th, 1923. 
Australian Zoologist, former curator of the Zoological Gardens at Melbourne. Obituary 
notice, Emu, Vol. XXII., p. 238, 1924. 
Cat. Australian Birds’ Eggs and Nests, 1904. 
On the egg of an Emu supposed to have come from Tasmania he proposed the name 
of Dromceus diemenensis and later, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXI., p. 13, 1907, gave 
the same name to a bird-skin from Bonald C. Gunn preserved in the British Museum. 
Has written articles in the Ibis, Emu, etc., and introduced Arses candidior (1897), n.n., 
and described Talegallus purpureicollis (1898) in the former, and Eopsaltria jacJcsoni 
(Vol. TX.) and Triclioglossus colesi (Vol. X.) in the latter. 
Lesson, Rene Primevere. —A great French Zoologist, born March 20th, 1794, died April, 
1849, an Eloge historique by A. Lefevre being published in 1850. (Pierre Adolphe 
Lesson, a brother of R. P. Lesson, was born in 1805). Was naturalist with 
Garnot on Duperrey’s Voyage round the World in the Coquille, and described 
some of the species with that author in Ferussac’s Bull. Sci. Nat. before they 
appeared in the published results of the Coquille’s voyage. Such are Phony - 
ganimus for Barita keraudrenii (Vol. VIII.), Barita quoyi (Vol. X.) and Syma 
with S. torotoroin the same place (Vol. XI.) by himself alone, and Alecthelia (Vol. VIII.). 
To the Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, Vol. VI., pp. 241-265, 1825, he contributed “ Observations 
g6n6rales d’Histoire naturelle, faites pendant un Voyage dans les Montagnes Bleues 
de la Nouvelle Galle du Sud,” in which Dacelo fulvus , Mcerium magnifica occur and which 
was translated into the Edinburgh New Philos. Journal (Vol. 4), 1828, pp. 156-168. 
Dictiomiaire des Sciences Naturelles (Levrault). 
Dumont was the writer of the bird articles in this work, but towards the end he 
received assistance from others, and Lesson (who became Dumont’s son-in-law) wrote 
the monograph on the Charadriine birds in Vol. XLII., and there proposed Charadrius 
taitensisy sanguineusy leschenaidtii and marginatus. 
The results of the voyage of the Coquille now began to appear, the plates first, as 
I have noted under the word Coquille. 
The new names are Columba cyanovirenSy Platycercus cceruleuSy Philedon rubrifrons 
and Eyimachus regius . 
Manuel d’Ornithologie, 2 vols., 18mo, Paris, June 28th, 1828. 
This little work is very important as, in addition to the new names proposed, types 
are named of many genera, this being the first type designation. These have been 
recently collated by Laubmann (q.v.). According to Engelmann, an Atlas of 129 plates 
was issued with this little work, but I have never seen it. 
[This is the “ Atlas des Oiseaux, compose de 129 planches.” It was issued and sold 
separately. It is noted on back of title page of Vol. I. of the Manuel and on the back 
of the half-title of Vol. II.—C.W.R.] 
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