THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Described in detail all the Petrels procured on the Voyage and was preparing a 
revised Systema Naturae when he died. The MS. was Banks’ property, and was mislaid 
until I discovered it in the British Museum, when I reprinted the whole of the descriptions 
of Petrels in my second volume of the Birds of Australia ; the names being Procellaria 
saltatrix (p. 16), P. longipes (p. 17), P. oequorea (p. 23), P. passerina (p. 24), Nectris 
carbonaria (p. 91), Procellaria fuliginosa (p. 113), P. pallipes (p. 123), P. sandaliata 
(p. 151), P. agilis (p. 152), P. vagabunda (p. 155), P. lugens (p. 159), P. veliflcans( p. 161), 
P. sordida (p. 162), P. atrata (p. 163), P. crepidata (p. 164), Diomedea profuga (p. 285). 
D. antarctica (p. 302). 
Some of these names had been previously noted as synonyms by Kuhl, Bonaparte, 
Gray and Salvin, and the latter had quoted some diagnoses, but the complete 
description had not been seen before. 
Sonnerat, Pierre. —Born 1745. Died 1814. Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee, 4to, Paris, 
1776. 
Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, 2 vols., 4to, Paris, (after Feb. 5th) 1782. 
These two books contain numerous illustrations of birds accompanied by plates. 
These were only described in vernacular, but Scopoli ( q.v .) gave Latin diagnoses to 
most of the descriptions and Gmelin also named them. Sonnerat got his localities 
mixed, as he described Penguins from New Guinea, etc. 
The most curious item to Australian ornithologists is a painting of the Laughing 
Jackass, a peculiar Australian bird, and Sonnerat visited no place we know of where 
he could have procured the bird. 
South Australian Ornithologist. —A quarterly Journal published by the S.A. Ornithological 
Club ; the first numbers are separately paged as follows : Vol. I., pt. 1, pp. 1 (5)-24, 
Jan. 1914; pt. 2, pp. 1 (5)-20 (19), April 1914; pt. 3, pp. 1 (5)-22 (21), July 1914; 
pt. 4, pp. 1 (5)-32 (31), Oct. 1914. Vol. II., pt. 1, pp. 1 (5)-24 (23), Jan. 1915 ; pt. 2, 
pp. 25 (29)—48, April 1915 ; pt, 3, pp. 49 (53)-76, July 1st, 1915 ; pt. 4, pp. 77 (80)-102 
(101), Oct. 1st, 1915 ; pt. 5, pp. 103 (109)-126, Jan. 1st, 1916 ; pt. 6, pp. 127 (131)-154 
(158), April 1st, 1916 ; pt. 7, pp. 159 (163)-1S7 (190), July 1st, 1916 ; andpt. 8, pp. 191 
(195)-213 (214), Oct. 1st, 1916. And continued four times a year on Jan, 1st, April 1st, 
July 1st and Oct. 1st, eight numbers to a volume, but volume IV. or V. has only four. 
Contains important papers by Zietz (q.v.), Ashby, White, Mellor, etc., and also some 
by myself. 
Spalding, Edward. —Australian Collector who worked for Dr. E. P. Ramsay and Masters 
round Rockingham Bay and Port Darwin and after whom Ramsay named Orthonyx 
spaldingi in 1868, and Gracticus spaldingi in 1878. 
Sparrman, Anders. —Born 1748. Died 1820. A Swedish Naturalist, a pupil of Linne, who 
went out to South Africa and was met at Cape Town by Forster, who was with Captain 
Cook on his second voyage. Forster induced Sparrman to accompany him, but Cook 
would only allow him on condition that Forster paid for his keep, etc., etc. Sparrman 
left the ship again when it reached Cape Town and went into the interior. Later he 
came to Europe, and owing to his travels his collections were considerably mixed, and he 
attributed birds he had collected at Dusky Sound, New Zealand, to definite localities in 
the deserts of Africa with unfortunate results. 
Museum Carlsonianum. Folio Holmirn. 
Under this title was published a series of 100 plates of birds in four fascicules of 25 
plates each, in the years 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789. 
Hirundo javanica. 
Spencer, Baldwin. —Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XXIII., No. 7, p. 140, Nov. 1906. 
Interested in science but not much in ornithology ; named the King Island kangaroo 
from bones only. 
Dromceus minor . 
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