BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The receipt of the bird volumes in the B.F. are : Yol. VII., Nov. 26th, 1836 ; 
Vol. VIIL, June 3rd, 1837 ; Suppl., Yol. IX., Dec. 9th, 1837. 
There are some type designations as that of Ghoucalcyon (Yol. IX., p. 355). 
Complements de Buffon by P. Lesson, 2 vols., royal 8vo, Paris, 1838. 
Deuxieme Edition, Bevue, corrigee et augmentee par l 5 Auteur. 
This was published as an addenda to a Hist. Nat. Buffon, published in 10 vols. of the 
same size in double column. It was rapidly pushed through in livraisons, livrs. 1-2 
with 2 feuilles and 4 pis., April 7th, 1838 ; last livraison June 1st, 1839. The title- 
pages of the copies with the Hist. Nat. Buffon bear the date 1840, but my own copy 
has 1838, and later prints are known bearing the date on the title-page 1S48, and with 
few T er plates and on cheaper paper, but the text is identical. 
Descr. Mamrn. et Ois. is the short abbreviation of Description de Mammiferes et 
d’Oiseaux recemment decouverts, which Richmond (1), p. 672, footnote, appeared as 
Vol. XX., and last of a Complement des CEuvres de Buffon, printed by Leveque in small 
18mo, which appears in Engelmann as CEuvres completes (Buffon) avec les suites de 
M. Lesson. This Vol. XX. is acknowledged B.F., April 24th, 1847, and contains 
Totdnus oceanicus . 
Revue Zool., 1839. 
Lesson wrote a few articles in this Journal, describing Puffinus VJierminieri and 
j Eidopsarus afjinis in this year. 
Echo du Monde Savant. 
To this periodical Lesson contributed a long series of articles on ornithology which 
fortunately have been lately reprinted by Menegaux under the title “ Articles 
d’Omithologie de R. P. Lesson ” at Paris, 1913. 
[Unfortunately he did not reprint all the articles.—C.W.R.] 
Numerous new species were described, and mostly they have proved synonymous 
as the following I quote show : Vanellus rufiv enter, Malacorhynchus iodotis , Nettapus 
bicolor , Platycercus ccelestis , Chalcites simplex , Dasyornis abeillei , Weebongia with 
W. albiventer , Cyphorhina , Fluvicola leucocephala. 
The second edition of the Voyage of the Coquille is by Pierre Lesson, but I have not 
been able to trace how the name change was achieved. The Complements de Buffon 
is by P. Lesson, which suggests that he was using the name Pierre as short for Rene 
Primevere, an unexpected abbreviation. 
Lesueur, Charles Alexander. —Born January 1st, 1778. Died Dec. 12th, 1846. 
Accompanied Peron, but was more the artist, Mauge and Peron being the 
zoologists. Mauge died on the voyage, and Peron died after his return, when Lesueur 
edited Peron’s work through the press, etc. Most of the zoological items are recorded 
as collected by Peron and Lesueur, and Lesueur wrote some good articles on inverte¬ 
brates and then w r ent to America. 
A memoir will be found by George Ord in Silliman’s (America) Journal, Ser. 2, 
Vol. VIII., pp. 189-216. 
Levaillant, Fran£Ois. —Bom 1753. Died Nov. 22nd, 1824. A famous traveller who 
explored South Africa, whose travels are very well known on account of their novelty. 
Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux d’Afrique, 6 vols., folio, Paris, 1799-1805. 
Pull descriptions and coloured figures are given, many of which are not African. 
Simdevall ( q.v .) has furnished a collation, noting the localities of all the species. 
Histoire naturelle des Perroquets, 2 vols., folio, Paris, 1801-1805. 
Contains few Australian species, but, 
Vol. III. contenant les especes laisses inedites par Le Vaillant ou recemment decouverte 
by A. Bourjot Saint Hiliare, folio, 105 pis., Paris, 1837-8. 
Has often been quoted, as in this volume Latin names are given. I have given a list 
of these Latin names, pointing out that they are not binominal in form but merely 
translations of the French vernaculars, and have therefore rejected them. See my List 
of the Birds of Australia. 
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