THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
List of Birds met with in North-eastern Queensland, chiefly at Rockingham Bay. 
This very important essay in three parts included a new Pcecilodryas (?) cinereifrons. 
Sericornis brevirostris (lapsus only), Scenopceus nov. gen. with S. dentirostris , Cyclopsitta 
macleayana (said to have been named in Sydney Morning Herald of Nov. 15th, 1874), all 
in part I. and Sittella albata in part m. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1874, pp. 601-5, April 1st, 1875. 
Descriptions of five new Species of Birds from Queensland • . . Cypselus 
terrceregince, Rhipidura superciliosa , Eopsaltria (?) inornata, Ptilotis frenata, 
JElurcedus maculosus. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
Important papers in this periodical are : 
List of Australian Game Birds and other species which should be protected by 
the “ Game Preservation Act.” Vol. I., pp. 182-196. 
Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at present known, showing the distribution 
of the species. Vol. II., pp. 177-212. 
Pardalotus assimilis, Pachycephala occidentalism Cracticus spaldingi . 
Notes on List of Australian Birds. Vol. III., p. 38. 
List of Western Australian Birds collected by Mr. Cairns and Mr. W. [T.] H. Boyer- 
Bower at Derby and its vicinity, with remarks on the species. Vol. I (Second 
Series), pp. 1085-1100. 
Ninox connivens-occidentalS. Malurus occidentals. 
List of Birds collected at Derby, North-west Australia, by the late T. H. Boyer- 
Bower, Esq., with, notes. Vol. II. (Second Series), pp. 165-173. 
New species were described in short notes as: Ptilotis macleayana (Vol. I.), 
JEgialitis mastersi (Vol. I.), Platycercus mastersianus (Vol. II.), Gerygone flavida (Vol. II.), 
Poephila armitiana (Vol. II.), Eopsaltria nana (Vol. II.), Pachycephala pallida (Vol. II.), 
[Ptilotis germana,V ol. III.), Rhipidura sharpei (Vol. IV.), Collyriocincla sibila (Vol. V.), 
Philemon occidentals (Ser. II., Vol. II.). 
Then he published separately, brought up-to-date : 
Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at present known to the Author, etc., 
4to, Sydney (read Lond., Dec. 8th), 1888. 
Platycercus pennantii var. nigrescens , (Edicnemus longipes, ( Ninox albaria (Lord 
Howe Island)). 
A second edition was published after July, 1891, in which the only alteration appears 
to be the intinduction of the new name, Glimacteris leucophcea minor . 
Ramsay also wrote the Catalogues of the Australian Museum ( q.v .), of which only 
those dealing with Hawks, Parrots, Kingfishers, etc., were published. 
Ranzani, Camillo. —Born 1775. Died 1841. Elementi di Zoologia, 8vo, 3 vols., Bologna, 
1819-1826. 
Dates are given at end of each part as follows : Vol. I. General Introduction, Nov. 
26th, 1819. Vol. II. Mammals ; part i., Dec. 30th, 1819 ; pt. n., Sept. 23rd, 1820 ; 
pt. in., Oct. 2nd, 1820. Vol. III. Birds ; pt. i., July 20th, 1821 ; pt. n., Oct. 7th, 1821; 
pt. m., April 3rd, 1822 ; pt. iv., Sept. 24th, 1822 ; pt. v., Jan. 10th, 1823 ; pt. vi., 
May 25th, 1823 ; pt. vn., Oct. 10th, 1823 ; pt. vin., Jan. 28th, 1825 ; pt. ix., Jan. 18th, 
1826. No more were published. 
Solenoglossus , Orthonyx temminckii . 
Raper, George. —Artist who went to Sydney in the Supply and returned in the Waak- 
samheyd. Will be remembered as having painted the extinct Pigeon of Lord Howe 
Island which I have named Raperia godmance, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pp. 21-24. 
Rayner. —Surgeon on H.M.S. Herald. Shot only specimen on northern shore of Australia 
known to Gould, which was named Hirundo fretensis Gould, Handb. B.A., p. 110, 1865. 
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