BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio. —Famous Italian Ornithologist, bom June 13th, 1723, died 
May 8th, 1788. Elogio del dottore G. A. Scopoli by G. Macroni da Pont, 1811. 
Annus Historico Naturalis, 8vo, Lepsige, 1769-1772. 
I., MDCCLXVIII. and II., MDCCLXIX, published together. 
The first includes Descriptiones Avium rnusei proprii earumque rariorum, quas 
vidit in vivario Augustiss. Imperatoris, et in museo excell, eomitis Francisci Annib. 
Turriani. 
Trachelia and Strix alba are quoted from this. 
Annus III., 1769; IV., 1770 ; V., 1772, do not concern us. 
A German translation of Annus I. was edited by F. 0. Gunther and published at 
Leipzig in 1770. 
This little book commands interest otherwise by being mentioned by Gilbert White. 
Introductio ad historian! naturalem, 8vo, Prag., 1777. 
Includes the debated name A pus. 
Delicise Florae et Faunae Insubricse. Folio, 3 parts, Ticini, 1786-88. 
In Part n., pp. 84-96, Specimen Zoologicum, in which Latin names are given to the 
birds figured and described in Sonnerat’s Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee, 1776, and 
Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, 1782 ( q.v .). 
This was reprinted by the Willughby Society in 1882, 
and contains the names Apterodita , Columba bicolor , Sterna anoethetus, Tantalus varie - 
gatus, Alcedo undulata , Hirundo gutturalis. 
Scott, H. H.—Memoir on the Wedge-tailed Eagle : A Study in Avian Osteology. 
Launceston, Tasmania (no pagination), 16 pages, 2 plates, 8vo, 1909. 
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. —Bom 1837. Died 1911. Bulletin of the U.S. National 
Museum, No. 19, 8vo, Washington, 1882. 
Nomenclator Zoologicus. 
An Alphabetical List of all Generic Names that have been employed by Naturalists 
to the close of the year 1879. 
Seebohm, Henry. —B.orn July 12th, 1832. Died Nov. 26th, 1895. Great English 
Ornithologist who disregarded fixed laws and made new ones for himself with little 
success. An original investigator whose fantasies demand attention and whose field¬ 
work is most praiseworthy. Wrote a History of British Birds which incurred the 
grave displeasure of Newton, who savagely depreciates it in his Introduction to the 
Dictionary of Birds. 
His mechanical methods of Bird Classification are of interest, as he brought 
together a lot of odd data, but his results are compamtively valueless. His pursuit 
of colour values led him astray, as he neglected too much the hints given by structure ; 
but he was probably correct in giving higher value to colour (in its correct appreciation) 
than to so-called structural characters. 
A History of British Birds with coloured illustrations of their eggs, 4 vols., 1883-1885. 
Gharadrius hiaticula major. 
Geographical Distribution of the Charadriidae, 4to, London, “ 1888.” 
Appeared in parts, the complete work, presented to the Smithsonian Institution, 
dated Dec. 25th, 1887. Full of novelty, which is helpful though not completely trust¬ 
worthy in the deductions put forward. 
Totanus tereJczus 
Wrote the fifth volume of the Catalogue Birds Brit. Mus. dealing with Warblers and 
Thrushes, and prepared a Monograph of the Thrushes which was completed by Sharpe 
after his death. 
Selby, Prideaux John.— Born 1788. Died 1867. Another great English Ornithologist 
who published Illustrations of British Ornithology in folio parts and an octavo text 
volume in 1825 (pref. Feb. 10th) dealing -with the Land Birds. In this hitherto 
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