THE BIRDS OE AUSTRALIA. 
Tchihatcheff, Pierre de. —Born 1812. Died 1890. Voyage scientifique dans Y Altai et 
sur la frontiere occidental© de la Chine, 2 vols., 4to and folio Atlas, Paris, 1844-45. 
Russian spelling is Petr Aleksandrovich Chikhacliev, according to Sherborn. 
The first part is acknowledged B.F., Sept. 21st, 1844; the second part B.F.,* May 3rd, 
1845. In the latter is included a Catalogue of Birds by Brandt, who introduced many 
new names. 
Eupoda. 
Temminck, Coenraad Jacob. —Great Dutch Ornithologist who dominated European 
ornithology from 1815 to 1840. Born 1778, died 1858, and was nicknamed “the tardi¬ 
grade Dutchman ” by one of the lighter of the English spirits. 
Catalogue Systematique du cabinet d’Ornithologie et de Quadrumanes de C. J. 
Temminck, 8vo, Amsterdam, 1807. 
This little essay includes a section “ Caracteres Physiques des Oiseaux non-decrits,” 
in which a number of new species, such as Orthonyx , Erythrogonys cinctus , were described 
in detail, but no Latin names were given. Some new names were given in the body of 
the work, and thus overlooked, as Psittacus lathami. 
This work was so rare that in 1849 Hartlaub wrote an account from the only copy 
known to him, in the Berlin Museum, which was published in the second volume of 
Jardine’s Contributions to Ornithology. My copy was given me by W. Stone of 
Philadelphia. 
Les Pigeons by Madame Knip, folio, Paris, 1811. 
This work has given a great deal of trouble to bibliographers, and reference must be 
made to Coues’ (Orn. Bibl., pt. 3, pp. 794r-797 (Bull. U.S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey 
Territ., No. 4, Sept. 30th, 1880) ): “Dated on title-page 1811, appeared in fifteen 
livraisons, from 1807 to 1811.” This appears inaccurate and Sherborn has since 
published : “The nearest collation I can arrive at is pp. 23-41, 1-48 (1809) ; 49-80 
(1810) ; 81-128 and 1-30 (1811) ; the contents of the parts are unknown to me ; ed. 2, 
fo. Paris (? 1838-43) a reissue of ed. 1 ; pp. 129-135 referred to above are in this copy ” ; 
the above reads “ of pt. i. the B.M. (N.H.) copy has pp. 129-135, which appear=pp. 
35-41 of Coues’ notes.” 
In the Austral Avian Record, Vol. IV., pt. i., pp. 24-45, 1920, I published my notes 
including the above from Sherborn’s MS. 
The peculiar pagination given by Sherborn refers to the fact that three sections of 
Pigeons were distinguished and were separately paged, and the plates separately 
numbered, as Les Colombars, pp. 23-41, pis. i.-xr.; Les Colombes, pp. 1-128, 
pis. i.-lix., and Les Columbigallines, pp. 1-30, pis. i.-xvi. 
The missing pages 1-22 of Les Colombars were apparently destroyed by Madame 
Knip as detailed by Coues. 
The pagination as noted above by Sherborn and by myself differs in different copies, 
pp. 129-135 replacing pp. 35-41, in some cases showing correct signatures, in others 
differing signatures, etc. 
Madame Knip was Madamoiselle Pauline de Courcelles and painted the pictures to 
which Temminck supplied the text, and Temminck apparently wanted the credit for 
the work, while Madame Knip contended the paintings were more important and the 
text was secondary. A second series was issued according to Engelmann in 15 livr. 
de 60 pis. (12 livr., 1838-43), the text by Florent Prevost. 
The new names in the first series are Columba superb a, C. elegans and G. armillaris . 
Histoire Naturelle generale des Pigeons et des Gallinacees, 3 vols., 8vo, Amsterdam, 
1813-15. 
Vol. I., issued before June 11th, 1813; Vol. II. (after June), 1813; Vol. 
III., 1815. 
*In all References B.F.=Bibliographie de la France. 
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