THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
neglected volume is a List of the “ Types of the genera,” for which see the Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. V., pp. 74-80, 1923. When he completed his work he published the Water 
Birds text in octavo in 1833, but also revised and published the Land Birds. 
Catalogue of the Generic and Subgeneric Types Aves, 8vo, Newcastle, 1840. 
This little work was published as a guide to the distribution of the varied generic 
types. 
Haliastur , Poliocephalus . 
Selby wrote the volume in the Naturalists’ Library ( q.v .) dealing with Pigeons, 
introducing the genus Phaps , and collaborated with Jardine (q.v.) in the Illustrations 
of Ornithology. 
Selys-Longchamps, Michel Edmond de. —Born May 25th, 1813. Died Dec. 11th, 1900. 
Faune Beige, 8vo, 1 pt., Liege, 1842. 
Stridula . 
Semon, Richard Wolfgang. —Born 1859. Im Australischen Busch und an der Kiisten 
des Korallenmeers, 8vo, Leipzig, 1896. 2nd ed., 1903. 
Eng. translation : In the Australian Bush, 8vo, London, 1899. 
Severtzoff (Syevertzov), Nicolai Aleksyevich. —Born 1827. Died Feb. 8th, 1885. 
“ Turkest. Jevotnie.” This is the abbreviation sometimes met with of a paper 
published in the Izvyestiya Imp. Obshch. lynbet. Estest. Antrop. (Moscow), Vol. 
VIII., livr. 2, 1873. 
Vertikkal’nom i ghorizontal’ nom rasprost ranenii Turkestanskom Kraye. 
Eudromias crassirostris. 
A translation of the birds was published by H. E. Dresser in the Ibis, 1875 and 1876, 
and in 1876, p. 327, appears the above name. 
In the Journ. fur Orn., 1875, p. 183, April, it was written Eudromias magnirostris (a 
lapsus only). 
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. —Leading British Ornithologist for nearly forty j^ears, being 
in charge of the Bird Dept, of the British Museum, and being a born ornithologist to 
boot. Born Nov. 22nd, 1847, died Dec. 25th, 1909. Obituary in Ibis, 1910, p. 352, 
reprinted Emu, Vol. IX., pp. 178 and 262. While only a boy began a 
Monograph of the Kingfishers, 4to, London, published in parts, the dates given in the 
Introduction :— 
Pt. I., July 1st, 1868; pt. n., Oct. 1st, 1868 ; pt. m., Jan. 1st, 1869 ; pt. iv., April 1st, 
1869 ; pt. v., July 1st, 1869; pt. vi., Oct. 6th, 1869; pt. vn., Jan. 1st, 1870 ; pt. vm, 
April 1st, 1870 ; pt. ix., July 1st. 1870 ; pts. x. and xi., Oct. 1st, 1870; pt. xn., Nov. 1st, 
1870 ; pt, xm, Dec. 1st, 1870 ; pts. xiv. and xv., Jan. 1st, 1871. 
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 
Practically hah the 27 volumes were written by Sharpe. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, part 
of 9, 10, 12, 13, 17, 23, 24, and part of 26 being from his pen. Not many new species 
were described in this work, but I quote Hieracidea orientalis (Vol. I.), Collyriocincla 
pallidirostns (Vol. III.), Strepera intermedia (Vol. III.), Petrceca leggii (Vol. IV.), Petrceca 
ramsayi (Vol. IV.), Pseudogerygone mastersi (Vol. IV.), Ileteromyias (Vol. IV.), 
Bhipidura saturata (Vol. IV.), Malurus gouldi (Vol. IV.), Drymcedus pallidus Vol. VII.), 
Artamus hypoleucus (Vol. XIII.), Mirafra secunda (Vol. XIII.), Zoni/er (Vol XXIV.), 
Mesoscolopax .(Vol. XXIV.), Peltohyas (Vol. XXIV.), Noiophoyx flavirostris (Vol. 
XXVI.). While he was preparing his volumes of the Catalogue he published odd 
novelties in periodicals, as Erythrotriorchis in the P.Z.S., 1875, p. 337; Cinclosoma 
erythronotum (emendation only) in the Ibis, 1881, p. 605 ; Malurus cyanochlamys in the 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1881, p. 788; Bhipidura diemenensis (Ibis, 1879, p. 368); and 
in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, which he was instrumental in forming, 
he proposed Poliohmnas (Vol. I.), Tricholimnas (Vol. I.), Microtribonyx (Vol. I.), Meso- 
phoyx (Vol. in.), Xanthocnus (Vol. III.), Noiophoyx (Vol, V.), Petroica camvbelli 
(Vol. VIII.). ^ 
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