THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
This is the title given to the collected papers presented before the Academy by 
Linne’s pupils, probably all of which were issued separately. Sometimes these are 
quoted as above, sometimes by their separate titles, as the following perplexing items 
show. In the 10th edition, p. 133, Linne gives as the primary reference to Pdecanus 
aquilus 44 Amcen. acad. 4 p. . .” and the second reads £t Osb. iter 292.” On p. 134 
as the primary reference is 44 Chin.-Lagerstr. 8. Osb. iter 85/ 
These refer to the same paper, an account of Osbeck’s discoveries in China which 
was published as a separate under the title 44 Chinensia Lagerstroemiana ” in 1757, and 
was then included in the Amcen. acad., Vol. IV., which was not published until after 
1758. 
For various editions of the Systema Naturae see Gmelin and Muller. 
Lister, M.—Only comes into this account as he published in the Philos. Trans., Vol. XX., 
1698, the letter recording Black Swans from Nova Hollandia. 
Littler, Frank Mervyn. —Australian Ornithologist who has just died recently. Contributed 
many articles in the Emu and sent me numerous notes which I have published in my 
Birds of Australia. 
Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania, 8vo (reviewed Emu, July 1st), 1910. 
A very useful account, the only one, of the birds of this colony. 
Longman, Heber A.—Director. of the Brisbane Museum, Queensland. Present-day 
Naturalist, who is interested in birds and has helped me with dates of publication. 
Lord, Clive E.—Present-day Tasmanian Naturalist. Curator Tasmanian Museum, 
is interested in ornithology and has helped me in many ways. 
Looms, Leverett Mills. —Born Oct. 13th, 1857. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Vol. II., pt. n., 
pp. 1-187, pis. 1-17, April 22nd, 1918. A Review of the Albatross, Petrels and Diving 
Petrels. 
An imposing title, but unfortunately an ill balanced account, reviewing the Procel- 
larian birds of the world, from study of a local collection. 
Love, J. R. B.—An Australian Ornithologist from whose collecting Ashby named Eplithicinura 
lovei , of which North made the genus Ashby ia, one of the best novelties of recent years. 
Lowe, Percy Roycroft (Dr.). —Born Jan. 2nd, 1870. Now in charge of the bird depart¬ 
ment in the British Museum, Natural History. 
His studies in the osteology of the Charadriif orm birds, now being published in the 
Ibis, absolutely confirm my conclusions in the Birds of Australia. 
In Bulletin British Ornithologist’s Club, Vol. XXXVI., 1915, JEgialitis hiaticula 
tundrce. 
Lucas, A. H. S. and Le Sottef, W. H. D.—The Birds of Australia, 8vo, Melbourne. 
A handy, popular little work. 
Littlejohn, R. T. and Lawrence, S. A.—Birds of our Bush, 8vo, Melbourne. 
Interesting field observations and photographs. 
Lumholtz, Karl Sofus. —Born 1851. Died 1922. Among Cannibals, 1889. 
Contains good observations. 
McCoy, Frederick. —Born 1823. Died 1899. Natural History of Victoria, Prodromus 
of the Zoology of Victoria, 2 vols., 8vo, Melbourne, 1878-1890. Issued in 20 parts. 
Notwithstanding the attractive title, this book does not concern us, but McCoy named 
four Victorian birds in the Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., viz., Sphenura broadbenti , Pardalotus 
xanthopygus (Ser. III., Vol. XIX.), Ptilotis leadbealeri (Ser. HI., Vol. XX.) and 
Cyclopsitta leadbeateri (Ser. IV., Vol. XVI). 
Macgilltvray, John. —Son of the succeeding, one of the best naturalists that ever left 
the shores of the British Isles. Born 1824, was appointed naturalist to the Rattlesnake 
in 1842, and resigned at Sydney in 1855, where he died in 1867. Sent collections to Gould 
who described many new species ( q.v .). 
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