THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
The Histoire Naturelle begun by Savigny was a stupendous idea, the treatment 
being exhaustive in every manner, literary, historical and systematic. 
The Birds only covered the Birds of Prey and include the new names Elanus , Pandion, 
Haliaeetus and Strix, which were published in 1809. See Sherborn Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.), 1897, p. 285. Audouin’s text, which does not concern us, appeared in 1826. 
Schasffer, Jacob Christian. —Born 1718. Died 1790. 
Elementa ornithologica, 4to, Ratisbon, 1774. 
Same with new title-page only, 1779. 
Of no technical value. 
Museum Ornithologicum, 4to, Ratisbon, 1789. 
In this work the Brissonian genera are utilised in connection with a binomial 
nomenclature, and on this accomit is important in a system which pretends to use 
binomial names, see Novit. Zool., Vol. XVII., pp. 492-503, 1910 ; also Sclater, Ibis, 
1907, pp. 85-88. 
Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf. —Born March 20th, 1777. Died March 8th, 1861. Das 
Thierreich, 4 vols., 8vo, Stuttgart, 1821-22-23-25. 
A translation of Cuvier’s Regne Animal, but so much new matter is incorporated that 
it is practically a new work. 
Schlegel, Hermann. —Born June 10th, 1804. Died Jan. 17th, 1884. Great Dutch 
Ornithologist in charge of the Mus. des Pays Bas at Leiden, and under that title 
( q.v .) published a series of monographs in which an extreme lumping polic} r 
was adopted, and consequently few new names, as Prion arid (ex Gould 
MS.), Procellaria smiihii , Procellaria adamastor. Ardea flavicollis australis , Anas 
malacorhyncha. 
De Dierentuin, 4to, Leiden, 1872. 
Published in 15 parts, but covers bear no dates : pt. i., pp. 1-40 ; pt. n., pp. 41-80 ; 
pt. in., pp. 81-120 ; pt. iv., pp. 121-160 ; pt. v., pp. 161-200 ; pt. vx, pp. 201-232 ; pt. 
vti., pp. 233-280 ; pt. vm., pp. 281-292 ; Index i.-vi., pt. Mam. pp. 1-20 ; pt. ix., 
pp. 21-60 ; pt. x., pp. 61-100 ; pt. xi., pp. 101-140 ; pt. xn., pp. 141-174, pp. 
i.-vi. ; pt. xin., p. vii., and Reptilia pp. 1-30 : pts xiv. and xv., pp. 31-64, i.-m. 
and De Diergaarden, pp. i.-xxviii. 
Meliphaga gouldii , Glaucopis struthidea are given in this unexpected place. 
Vogel van Nederland (bound in 3 vols.), 1854-8. 
CharadriU'S auratus lomjipes. 
Schrank, Franz Paula von. —Bom 1747. Died 1835. Denkrede by Martius, 1836. 
Fauna Boica, in three vols., Svo. 
Vol. I., Niirnberg, (pref. July 20th. 1797) 1798. 
II., Ingolstadt, pref. March 12th, 1801. 1801. 
III., „ Nov. 8th, 1802. 1803. 
Pratincola . 
Sclater, Phillip Lutley. —Born Nov. 4th, 1829. Died June 27th, 1913. Great British 
Ornithologist who was editor of the Ibis for many years and Secretary of the Zoological 
Society of London, which he raised to the premier position in the world. Specialised 
in Neotropical Ornithology and had little to do with Australian birds and was very 
unfortunate when he did touch them. Obituary and Portrait in Ibis, Oct. 1913, 
reproduced in Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 228. 
The names I quote are Polychlorus (P.Z.S., 1857, p. 226), Opopsitta (a lapsus only) 
(P.Z.S, 1860, p. 227), Dissodectes (P.Z.S., 1864, p. 248), Turdus subcinereus (P.Z.S., 
1866, p. 320, described as from “ Chili ” is the common Golluricinda harmonica ), 
Cacatua gymnopis (P.Z.S., 1871, p. 493), and Tribonyx gouldi (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 
III., Vol. XX., p. 123, Aug. 1st, 1867). 
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