THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Began a series in the Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) entitled Contributions to the Osteology 
of Birds. 
Pt. i. Steganopodes 
h. Impennes 
m. Tubinares 
iv. Pygopodes 
v. Falconiformes 
vi. Cuculiformes 
vn. Eurylsemidse 
vin. Tracheophone Passeres 
IX. 
1898, pp. 82-101, pis. 
1898, pp. 958—989 
1899, pp. 381-411 
1899, pp. 1,018-1,046 
1902, pp. 277-320 
1903, pp. 258-291 
1905, pp. 30-56 
1906, pp. 133-159. 
1907, pp. 352-379. 
vn. and vm. 
LIX.-LXI. 
xxn. and xxin. 
Lxxxn. 
xxxi.-ra. 
XXII. 
Vol. II., pi. ii. 
Tyranni, Hirundines 
Muscicapii, Lanii, Gymnorhinae 
The series has never been finished. 
Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 267, 1900. 
Morphology and Phylogeny of Palaeognathae (Ratitae and Crypturi) and Neognathse 
(Carinatae). 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., Vol. XXIX, pp. 396-407, pi. 39, Feb. 1906. 
Notes on a Skeleton of the Musk Duck, Biziura lobata , with Special Reference to 
Skeletal Characters evolved in relation to the Diving Habits of this Bird. 
Queensland Philosophical Society .—I have given details of the extraordinary beginning of 
the publications of this Society in the Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pp. 144-145, 
1915, in connection with Diggles. 
Apparently the accounts of the meetings were printed in the newspapers and then 
octavo leaflets struck off for the members. Twelve of such articles appear to constitute 
Vol. I., dating from about 1864 to 1872 ; Vol. II. was issued as a bound volume in 
1878, but the articles were previously printed in the newspapers and may have been 
sent out. Vol. III. runs to 1882, and the Society was merged into the Royal Society 
of Queensland. 
Quoy, Jean Rene Constant (born 1790, died 1869) et Gaimard, Paul Joseph. —Born 
1796. Died 1858. Naturalist Voyagers on two famous French Expeditions, known to 
ornithologists as those of the Uranie et Physicienne and of the Astrolabe, but in Library 
Catalogues the works are listed under Freycinet and Dumont d’Urville respectively. 
Voyage autour du monde . . sur les corvettes l’Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant 
les annees, 1817-1820, 8 vols. and atlas, 4to, Paris, 1824-1844. 
Vol. III. Zoologie by Quoy et Gaimard, 2 vols. in 16 livr. 
Details of publication of this Voyage have been published by Sherborn and Wood¬ 
ward in the Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. VII., p. 392, April 1901. 
The names I quote are Columha macquarie and Columha jamieson (Aug. 28th, 1824), 
Malurus leucopterus , Malurus textilis, and Oriolus regens (Sept. 18th, 1824) and Barita 
griseus from the last livraison (June 14th, 1826). The last named was also published 
in the Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Vol. V., p. 484, 1825, previously. 
Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe . . pendant le3 annees, 1826-29, 12 vols., 8vq, 
1 vol. pis., 4to, Paris, 1830-5. 
The publication details of this work are not exactly known, as shown by Sherborn 
and Woodward in the Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, Vol. VIII., p. 333, October, 1901. 
The birds appeared in the first volume of the Zoology which has a preface June 29th, 
1830. 
Many new species are here described from King George’s Sound, West Australia, and 
Western Port, Victoria : Psittacus semitorquatus , Psittacus (Platycercus) purpureoce- 
phalus , Podargus ocdlatus, Podargus papuensis, Hirundo frontalis, Muscicapa chrysoptera, 
Muscicapa vittata , Muscicapa georgiana , Muscicapa gularis , Muscicapa megarhynchu, 
Muscicapa platyrhyncha , Muscipeta sgtosa, Saxicola macularia , Saxicola clirysorrhoa, 
Saxicola longiroslris , Saxicola splendens , Lanius macularius, Dacnis ivesternensis, 
Fringilla oculata , Philedon malanodera . 
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