THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
McLennan, William, —One of the present-day Australian ornithological collectors whose 
results have been recorded in the Emu by Dr. Macgillivray and H. L. White. One of 
the finest discoveries in recent Australian bird study is due to W. McLennan and 
Dr. Macgillivray (q.v.), the recognition of the New Guinea Parrot, genera Eclectus (now 
Lorius) and Geoffroyus. 
Magazine of Natural History .—Was inaugurated by Loudon, the first part being published 
on May 1st, 1828, and appearing every two months until September 1834, when it 
became a monthly. Six parts constituted a volume and at the end of the ninth volume 
Loudon retired, and Charlesworth directed it, but only four volumes were issued before 
it succumbed to the opposition of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany conducted by 
Jardine and Selby. 
Magazine of Zoology and Botany .—The first number appeared on June 1st, 1836, under the 
direction of Jardine and Selby, and was published every two months as follows: No. 1, 
June 1836 ; No. 2, Aug. 1836 ; No. 3, Oct. 1836 ; No. 4, Dec. 1836 ; No. 5, Feb. 1837; 
No. 6, April 1837 ; No. 7, June 1837 ; Nos. 8 and 9 (double number), Aug. 1st, 1837; 
No. 10, Oct. 1st, 1837 ; No. 11, Dec. 1st, 1837 ; and No. 12, Feb. 1838. 
Mag. de Zool. —Plates and text issued irregularly, and sometimes text dated, but these are 
dates of manuscript only, not of publication. No exact collation yet known, see 
Revue de Zool. 
Malm, August Wilhelm. —Born 1821, Died 1882. Goteborgs och Bohuslans Fauna, 1877. 
Glottis linnei . 
Manchester Natural History Society. —In the Report of the Council of this Society 
for Jan. 1842, p. 4, Ghenogeranus australis , Thos. Brown ( q.v.) is mentioned. 
Marschall, August Friedrich. —Born 1804. Died 1887. Nomenclator Zoologicus, 
8vo, Vindobome, (pref. Oct. 20th) 1873. 
Supplement to Agassiz’s Index Zool. {q.v.) and the basis with that of Scudder (q.v.). 
Masters, George. —Australian Ornithologist- of the past generation who collected at 
King George’s Sound, South-w r est Australia, many species now apparently vanished 
irom that locality, and from whose collections many years afterwards North named 
Acanihiza mastersi , etc. Accompanied the “ Chevert ” expedition and reported upon 
the birds, and afterwards was Curator of the Macleay Museum. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., pp. 44-63, Feb. 1876. 
Zoology of the “ Chevert ” : Ornithology. 
Podargus gouldi, Pachy ceph ala robusta , Colluricincla superciliosa, Gerygone simplex 
(renamed by Sharpe mastersi ), Sericornis brunneopygius , Zoster ops ramsayi , Zoster ops 
flavogularis , Megapodius assimilis , Sterna nigrifrons , Sternula inconspicua are described 
in this paper. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 361. 
Notes on the Nidification of Geobasileus reguloides and chrysorrhous. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 113, July 1877. 
On Bruchigavia longirostris, a New Species of Gull from King George’s Sound. 
Bruchigavia longirostris . 
Proc. Limi. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., pp. 269-276, May 1878. 
Notes on a Collection of Birds from Port Darwin. 
Cracticus spaldingi (p. 269). 
Mathews, G. M.—Complete data will be furnished on the completion of the Birds of 
Australia, which is published in parts, all dated, and details have been given to 1918 
in Vol. VII., pp. 458-9, 1919. 
Handlist of the Birds of Australasia was published in January 1908 as a Supple¬ 
ment to the Emu, Vol. VII. 
Reference List to the Birds of Australia was published in the Novit. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
pp. 171-656, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
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