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quarters in the vicinity of St. Michaels. All his collections were sent to the U.S. 
National Museum. 
Cruise of the Corwin in 1881, (pref. March 3rd) 1883. 
(Strepsilas interpret) pacificus. 
Newton, Alfred. —Great. British Ornithologist, horn June 11th, 1829, died June 7th, 1907. 
Obituary notice Emu, Vol. VII., p. 113, 1907 ; portrait, plate xn., p. 168, 1908. 
Was a great friend and good hater and many of his criticisms are scarcely fair owing 
to the latter fact. Nevertheless, though his ornithological knowledge was rarely 
revealed owing to his desire for absolute accuracy (an impossible aim), his library, 
which he bequeathed to Cambridge University, and where it has lain unhonoured for 
fifteen years, was the most wonderful ever brought together on the subject of orni¬ 
thology. He spared no effort to enrich this, and his essay at the beginning of the 
Dictionary of Birds can scarcely be improved upon. He rarely described new forms, and 
his only effort in connection with Australian birds was rather unfortunate. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.), 1871, p. 649-659, 1872. 
On a remarkable Sexual Peculiarity in an Australian Species of Duck. 
Virago. 
Although this genus name is used it was proposed owing to a misunderstanding of the 
facts. 
A Dictionary of Birds, 8vo, London, 1896, published in parts, i. and ii., 1893; pt. ra., 
1894; pt. iv., 1896. 
Assisted by H. Gadow, etc. 
This should be in the library of every would-be ornithologist on account of the mass 
of valuable information on every subject written in a very readable manner, and notes 
of extreme value are often added as an after-thought by Newton. 
The Introduction, however, with an Index, running to 124 pages, is the most wonder¬ 
ful essay yet written, giving the history of bird study from every angle in the most 
compact manner and showing a specialists knowledge that will probably never be 
rivalled. 
Nicholls, Brooke. —Present-day Australian Ornithologist who has furnished some notes 
on the Lyre-Bird to the Victorian Naturalist and other notes to the Emu ; the recent 
papers, one in conjunction with Alexander on the Little Penguin in Vols. XVI. and 
XVII., being very valuable. 
Nitzsch, Christian Ludwig. —Great German Avian student who investigated aspects of 
bird-structure previously ignored, e.g., Pterylography. Born 1782, died Aug. 4th, 1837, 
his largest work was posthumously published under the direction of Burmeister. 
Osteografische Beitrage zurNaturgeschichte der Vogel, 8vo, Leipzig, (pref. May 28th) 
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Observationes de Avium Arteria carotide communi, 4to, Halae, (pref. Ides Sept.) 
1829. 
Khynchodon , Ulula , Hypsibates. 
Pterylographise Avium, 4to, Halae, 1833. 
Systema Pterylographise, 4to, Halae, (pref. May 20th) 1840. 
Hybris , Podargus gigas. 
This important work was translated and published by the Ray Society. 
Nitzsch also contributed articles to Ersch und Gruber’s Encycloped., and in Sect. 1., 
Vol. XVL, p. 100, 1827, first appeared Hypsibates. 
Nordmann, Alexander.— Bom 1803. Died 1866. Reise mu die Erde, durch Nord- 
Asien und die beiden Oceanie by Errnan, Adolph. Naturhistorischer Atlas Vogel 
Beschrieben von Dr. Alexander von Nordmann. Folio, Berlin, (pref. Aug. lltli) 1835. 
Laniu8 saturninus. 
North, Alfred John.— Australian Ornithologist who previous to his death was in charge 
of the bird collection at the Australian Museum, Sydney. Bom June 11th, 1855, 
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