THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, 2 vols., London, (pref. 
Aug. 18th) 1838, 2nd edn., 1839. 
Text unaltered, but reset, so pagination differs. 
On pp. xvii. and xviii. list of birds is given which includes Platycercus fuematogaster 
Gould (new species), Nanodes bourkii Mitch, (new species), Nanodes hoimatonotus (new 
species), Columba spilanota, Speckled Dove from Fort Bourke, Columba lophotes (?) 
Temm. (new species), Columba marmorata Mitch, (new Species ?), The Freckled Dove, 
Fort Bourke, Anas cygnea Mitch, (new species) from Lake Stapylton. 
None of these were described by Mitchell, but Gould named Nanodes bourkii from 
Mitchell’s specimens and apparently also described Malurus cyanotus from the birds first 
found by Mitchell. In the above work is a coloured plate of Plyctolophus leadbeateri. 
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, 8vo, London, 1848. 
Mitchell, Peter Chalmers. —Bom Nov. 23rd, 1864. Well-known English Zoologist. 
Secretary of the Zoological Society of London. Writer of many articles on anatomical 
details of birds. 
Ibis, 1901, pp. 97-123, Jan. On the Anatomy of the Kingfishers, with Special 
Beference to the Conditions in the Wing, known as Eutaxy and Diastaxy. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1913, pp. 1,039—1,072. 
The Peroneal Muscles in Birds. 
Mivart, St. George. —Born 1827. Died 1900. Birds ; the Elements of Ornithology, 
8vo, London (ded. May), 1892. 
A good little elementary introduction to the (then) latest scientific classification, 
assisted by Sharpe, Seebohm, and other first-class workers. 
A Monograph of the Lories, pp. liii., 193, 61 col. pis., 4to, London, 1896. 
Moehring, Paul Heinrich Gerhard. —-Born 1710. Died 1792. Pre-Linnean Systematist 
who published Avium Genera, 88 pp., 8vo, Auricae, 1752. 
An edition by Nozeman and Vosmser, published in Amsterdam in 1758, was noted 
by F. Poche in the Zoologischer Anzeiger, Bd. XXVII., pp. 495-510, May 3rd, 1904, 
and on account of its apparent importance was reprinted by Junk of Berlin. 
The names proposed by Moehring, though pre-Linnean according to our standard 
of the Xth Edition of 1758, were cited by G. R. Gray in his Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 
1855 ( q.v .), as Gray included all generic names after 1735, e.g., Titanus as synonym of 
Limosa, Buphagus as synonym of Stercorarius, etc. Poche noted Titanus was Totanus 
in Moehring’s work. 
It is now legislated that the reprinting of a “ pre-Linnean ” work after the date 1758 
does not validate the work as of the later date. 
Montagu, George. —Great English Naturalist, bom 1751, died Aug. 28th, 1815. His 
collection of British Birds came into the possession of the British Museum, but scarcely 
any are now in existence. 
Ornithological Dictionary ; or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, 8vo, 2 vols., 
London, April 1802. 
Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, 8vo, Exeter, (pref. June) 1813. 
There is no pagination. 
Sterna dougallii, Tringa grallatoris. 
Second Edition, with a plan of study, and many new articles and original observations 
by Jas. Rennie, 8vo, London, June 1831. 
A New Edition, exactly the same with new title-page only, 1833. 
New names, but none concerning Australian ornithology. 
Later editions by E. Newman of no technical value. 
Montague, P. D.—Young English Naturalist who examined the zoology of the Monte 
BeHo Group, and afterwards investigated New Caledonia, returning in time to fall in 
the early part of the war. I acquired all his birds collected at New Caledonia. 
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