THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
This work was issued in the two volumes at the date given. The new names I quote 
are Calobatus , Albatros , Prion , Anseranas , Clypeata and Myzantha flaviventer. 
Traite d’Ornithologie, 2 vols. (1 of plates), 8 vo, Paris, 1831. 
This was published in eight livraisons, the receipt and contents of which are 
acknowledged in the Bibl. de France as follows : Livr. 1 , pp. 1-80, Feb. 13th, 1830 ; 
livr. 2 , pp. 81-160, 30 plates, May 8 th, 1830 ; livr. 3, pp. 161-240, 15 pis., July 10th, 
1830 ; lhr. 4, pp. 241-320, 15 pis., Sept. 25th, 1830 ; livr. 5 (15 pis., pp. 321-400), 
about Dec, 1 st, 1830 ; livr. 6 (15 pis., pp. 401-480), about Feb. 1 st, 1831; livr. 7 , 
15 pis., pp. 481-560, April 9th, 1831 ; livr. 8 , 15 pis., pp. 561 to end, June, 11 th 
1831. 
In this volume Lesson named numerous species in the Paris Museum collected by 
previous voyageurs, and these new names are very numerous and commonly accompanied 
by a short phrase only. Pucheran (q.v.) has written about these types as well as those 
of Cuvier and Vieillot. The new names are Pufjinus chlororhynchus , Sterna bengalensis, 
Stolida , Carbo ater , Sula dactylatra , Garbo dimidiates, Dcedalion candidum , Limicola 
Indiana , Galidris australis, Noctua frontata, Australasia with A. viridis , Banksianus 
with B. australis , Platycercus rufijrons , Lathamus with L. rubrifrons and L. azureus, 
Ceyx cyanea , Ghoucalcyon with C. australe , Chalcites, Mcenura lyra , Bartramia with 
B. laticauda , Tatare , Cysticola , Stipiturus, Amytis , Dicceum atrogaster , Philedon aurifrons, 
Certhionyx with C. variegatus, Certliia leucomelas , Phylidonyris , Philanthus , Sphecothera 
grisea , Strepera, Cor cor ax with C. australis . 
Centurie Zoologique. 
This work bears on the title date “ 1830 ” and includes a postscriptum dated Feb. 
1831, while the date March 1831 appears in the text. In the Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
pp. 14-15, 1911, I have given details of my attempts to fix the publication of this work 
and the complications that were found. Lesson himself was a reviewer for Ferussac’s 
Bulletin, and the notices in that Bulletin cannot be accepted in view of the definite 
dates of receipt given in the Bibl. de France, which indicate irregular publication ; thus 
it should have been issued in 16 livraisons, each with 5 pis. and text; the Bibl. de France 
dates are Livr. 1 , no plates, March 20th, 1830 ; livr 2 , 5 pis., Oct. 2nd, 1830 ; livr. 3 , 
5 pis., Jan. 29th, 1831 ; livr. 4 and 5, no record ; livr. 6 , 7 and 8 , 15 pis., July 9th, 1831; 
livrs. 9 to 12 , no record; livrs. 13 to 16, 20 pis., May 19th, 1832. 
Note .—There are only 80 plates, the centurie referring to the number of species figured. 
It may be note l that the pages of the first livraison were acknowledged in 4to as 
well as 8 vo, but n me afterwards except in octavo ; however, Engelmann catalogues it 
in 4to. 
Illustrations de Zoologie. 
This was also issued in octavo and quarto in 20 livraisons, each with three plates. 
All the dates of receipt to the 16 livraisons are found in the Bibl. de France as follows : 
Prospectus noted Feb. 4th, 1832 ; livr. 1 , July 14th, 1832 ; livr. 2 , Sept. 1 st, 1832; 
livr. 3, Oct. 13th, 1832; livr. 4, Nov. 3rd, 1832; livr. 5 , Dec. 1 st, 1832; livr. 6 , 
Feb. 23rd, 1833 ; livr. 7, April 13th, 1833 ; livr. 8 , Aug. 10 th, 1833 ; livr. 9 , Aug. 24th, 
1833 ; livr. 10 , Oct. 19th, 1833 ; livr. 11 , Dec. 21st, 1833 ; livr. 12 , March 22nd, 1834; 
livr. 13, May 17th, 1834; livr. 14, Aug. 2nd, 1834 ; livr. 15, Jan. 17th, 1835; livrs. 16 
and 17, no record ; livrs. 18 and 20 in the Comptes Rendus, 1835, p. 517, Dec. 
Refer Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII, p. 12 , 1911 
Calopsitta with C . guy (pis. xlix. and l.) =about June 1835. 
Bougainville’s Joum. Navig. aut. Globe, Thetis et Esperance, 2 vols., 4 to, Paris, 1837. 
Acknowledged B.F., Feb. 24th, 1838. 
Lesson wrote up the birds in this account and named Callocephalon with G. australe. 
Complement des (Euvres de Buffon, 10 vols., 8 vo, Paris, 1828-1837. 
The full title-page being “ Hist. Nat. gener. et partic. Mamm. Ois. decouvertes depuis 
1788, but the former is the best known and always quoted, even by Lesson himself, who 
wrote this work. 
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