BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Mon. 11, Oti; Mon. 12, Striges ; Mon. 13. Circi, Resume general des Aves rapaces ; 
Mon. 14, Pitta, and Mon. 15, Buccones, pp. 1-66, last date Jan. 1863, probably issued 
Feb. or March. Livraison 3 contained the rest of Mon., Buccones; Mon. 16, Ardese ; 
Mon. 17, Alcedines, and Mon. 18, Meropes, pp. 1-12, last date June 1863, probably issued 
July. Livraison 4 contained the rest of Mon., Meropes ; Mon. 19, Momotus ; Mon. 20, 
Ibis; Mon. 21, Pelecani; Mon. 22, Procellarise, and Mon. 23, Lari, pp. 1-50, last date 
Aug., probably September 1863 issue. Livraison 5 contained remainder of Mon. Lari; 
Mon. 24, Stemas; Mon. 25, Cuculi; Mon. 26, Psittaci, and Mon. 27, Scolopaces, pp. 1-6 
last date Nov. 1864, so that it may not have been issued till 1865. Livraison 6 contained 
part of Scolopaces, pp. 7-102 only, date of issue problematical. Livraison 7 contains 
the completion of the Scolopaces ; Mon. 28, Ciconiae ; Mon. 29, Cursores, and Mon. 30, 
Ralli, pp. 1-76, last date being April 1865, but date of issue doubtful. Livraison 8 
contains rest of Ralli and Mon. 31, Anseres, pp. 1-108, dated May 1866, again issue 
doubtful. Livraison 9, rest of Mon., Anseres ; Mon. 32, Coraces, and Mon. 33, Uri- 
natores complete, dated April 1867, published late in 1867. Livraison 10 contains 
Struthiones, Mon. 34 ; Mon. 35, Columbse and a Revue des les Oiseaux de Proie dated 
July 1873. The Livraison 11 includes Revue Pitta, Revue Psittaci and Revue Alce¬ 
dines, dated April-June 1874, which completed the birds at that time. Monograph 40, 
dated March 1876, covered the Simise, but some years afterward as Vol. VIII., Monograph 
41 (also as Livraison XIII.), appeared the Tinami, dated March 1880. Then as Liv¬ 
raison 14, Vol. IX., appeared a Table Alphabetique (Vol. I.-VIII.) by Dr. F. A. Jentink 
in 1881. The Simiae, as Vol. VII., are separately indexed, the whole of the Aves being 
then indexed with reference to Monographs, but, unfortunately, generally the book is 
bound in six volumes according to a classification which I termed extraordinary as 
follows: Vol. I. includes Mons. 1, 15, 25 and 32, i.e., Buceros, Buccones, Cuculi and 
Coraces; Vol. II. includes Mons. 11, 12, 2, 13, 4, 5, 6, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, Resume general 
Aves rapaces, and 36, i.e., Oti, Striges, Falcones, Circi, Astures, Asturinse, Buteones, 
Aquilse, Milvi, Femes, Polybori, Vultures, Resume general Aves rapaces and Revue 
Oiseaux de Proie ; Vol. HI. includes Mons. 26, 38, 18, 19, 17, 39, 14, and 37, i.e., Psittaci, 
Revue Psittaci, Meropes, Momotus, Alcedines, Revue Alcedines, Pitta and Revue Pitta; 
Vol. IV. includes Mons. 35, 34 and 29, i.e., Columbae, Struthiones and Cursores; Vol. V. 
for Mons. 27, 30, 28, 16 and 20, i.e., Scolopaces, Ralli, Ciconim, Ardeseand Ibis; Vol. VI. 
for Mons. 31, 22, 23, 24, 21 and 33, i.e., Anseres, Procellariae, Lari, Sternse, Pelecani 
and Urinatores ; Vol. VII., Mon. 40, Simiae ; Vol. VIII. contains the Tinami alone. 
As Schlegel was a great lumper there are not many new names. Prion ariel (ex 
Gould MS.), Procellaria smithi, Ardea flavicollis australis, Anas malacorhyncha, 
Procellaria adamastor. 
Museum Leverianum. —The title of a work dealing with the objects in that Museum, written 
by G. Shaw and published in six parts, five of which constitute the part I. as bound up, 
the sixth being now lettered as part II. 
Pt. 1, Jan. 12th, 1792 ; pt. 2, May 3rd, 1792 ; pts. 3 and 4, Nov. 22nd, 1792 ; pt. 5, 
Feb. 14th, 1793 ; pt. 6, 12 pis. and text, 1796. 
The new names are Pinguinaria , Psittac'us splendidus, P . terrestris and Loxia guttata. 
Swainson in his Taxidermy, a foolish title to cover so much interesting matter on 
the “ Bibliography of Zoology,” has given a short account of this Museum and its 
proprietor that may he here epitomised. Sir Ashton Lever, the son of Sir D’Arcy 
Lever, of Alkington, near Manchester, was obsessed with the collecting mania and 
bought every item of zoology and mineralogy that was offered, so that his Museum 
soon became the largest, as regards zoology, in Britain, and he received many gifts 
from Sir Joseph Banks, Captain Cook, etc. His affairs became involved through his 
unrestricted purchases for his Museum, and he was induced to remove it to London 
and exhibit it at Saville House, Leicester Square, for monetary 7, recompense. This took 
place in 1775, and was a great success for some time, as it was stated to have excelled 
the animal collection of the British Museum. When the novelty wore off Lever’s 
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