THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Temminck and Latjgier. —Nouveau Kecueil des Planches coloriees d’Oiseaux, 4to, Paris, 
1820-1839. 
This work which appeared in 102 livraisons is bound up into five volumes, sometimes 
in the order of appearance of the livraisons, other times in systematic order. G. R. 
Crotch gave a list of the dates of publication of the livraisons in the Ibis for 1868, p. 500, 
a very early record of date recording. Sherbom in the Ibis, 1898, pp. 485—488, supple¬ 
mented this with more accurate information, while in the Birds Austr., Vol. VII., 
pp. 468-471, I have given a complete account of a peculiar complication. Sherborn 
pointed out that the first twenty livraisons were published without text, but the 
contents were printed on the backs of the wrappers ; this was discontinued when the 
text was issued. Sherborn has stated that all the text for livraisons 1-20 and 21 
appeared at once, but this appears doubtful. 
The complete account of apparently a reissue of the first livraisons I have given, and 
here collate the account : 
Livr. 1, Aug. 1820 ; livr. 2, Sept. 1820 ; livr. 3, Oct. 1820 ; livr. 4, Nov. 1820 ; 
livr. 5, Dec. 1820 ; livr. 6. Jan. 1821 ; livr. 7, Feb. 1821 ; livr. 8, March 1821 ; livr. 9. 
April 1821 ; livr. 10, May 1821 ; livr. 11, June 1821 ; livr. 12, July 1821; livr. 13, 
Aug. 1821 ; livr. 14. Sept. 1821 ; livr. 15, Oct. 1821 ; livr. 16, Nov. 1821; livr. 17, 
Dec. 1821 ; livr. 18, Jan. 1822 ; livr. 19, Feb. 1822 ; livr. 20, March 1822 ; livr. 21, 
with text for livrs. 1-20, April 1822 ; livr. 22, May 1822 ; livr. 23, June 1822 ; livr. 24, 
July 1822 ; livr. 25, Aug. 1822 ; livr. 26, Sept. 1822 ; livr. 27, Oct. 1822 ; livr. 28, 
Nov. 1822 ; livr. 29, Dec. 1822 ; livr. 30, Jan. 1823 ; livr. 31, Feb. 1823 ; livr. 32, 
March 1823 ; livr. 33, April 1823 ; livr. 34, May 1823 ; livr. 35, June 1823; then a 
reissue of livrs. 7-10 and 23-35 (livr. 27 only 5 pis.) were acknowledged in the B.F., 
July 26th, 1823 ; livrs. 36 and 21 and 22 (new ed.) in B.F., Aug. 2nd, 1823, thus con¬ 
firming previous dates, and all succeeding weekty dates are given from the B.F.; livrs. 37 
and 11 (new ed.), Aug. 30th, 1823; livrs. 38 and 12 (new ed.), Sepfc. 27th, 1823 ; livrs. 39 
and 13 (new ed.), Oct. 25th, 1S23 (10 plates only) ; livrs. 40 and 14 (newed.), Dec. 6th, 
1823 ; livr. 41, with 4 pis. only, Dec. 27th, 1823 ; livr. 42, Jan. 1824 (overlooked and 
not acknowledged B.F. until Feb. 26th, 1825, with livr. 55) ; livrs. 43 and 15 (new ed.). 
Feb. 1.8th, 1824; livrs. 44 and 16 (new ed.), March 27th, 1824; livrs. 45 and 17 (new 
ed.), May 1st, 1824; livrs. 46 and 18 (new ed.), May 22nd, 1824; livrs. 47 and 19 and 
20 (new ed.), June 26th, 1824; livr. 48, July 31st, 1824; livr. 49, Aug. 28th, 1824; 
livr. 50, Oct. 2nd, 1824 ; livr. 51, Oct. 23rd, i824 ; livr. 52, Nov. 27th, 1824; livrs. 53 
and 1-6 (new ed.), Dec. 25th, 1824; livr. 54, Feb. 12th, 1825 ; livr. 55 (and 42 above), 
Feb. 26th, 1825 ; livr. 56, April 16th, 1825 ; livr. 57, April 23rd, 1825 ; livr. 58, May 28th, 
1825 ; livr. 59. June 25th, 1825 ; livr. 60, July 23rd, 1825 ; livr. 61, Aug. 27th, 1825; 
livr. 62, Sept. 24th, 1825 ; livr. 63, Nov. 12th, 1825 ; livrs. 63-64, Dec. 21st, 1825; 
livr. 65, May 27tli, 1826 ; livr. 66, June 10th, 1826 ; livr. 68, Sept. 16th, 1826 ; livr. 69, 
Oct. 28th, 1826 ; livr. 70, Dec. 27th, 1827 ; livr. 71, Feb. 28th, 1827 ; livr. 72, April 
25th, 1827 ; livr. 73, June 30th, 1827 ; livr. 74, Sept. 22nd, 1827 ; livr. 75, Jan. 5th, 
1828 ; livr. 76, March 1st, 1828 ; livr. 77, April 23rd, 1828 ; livr. 78, July 5th, 1828; 
livr. 79, Aug. 1st, 1829 ; livr. 80, Sept. 5th, 1829 ; livr. 81, Oct. 1829 ; livr. 82, Jan. 2nd, 
1830 ; livr. 83 (73), Feb. 20th, 1830 ; livr. 84 (74), May 8th, 1830 ; livr. 85, July 3rd, 
1830 ; livr. 86, Sept. 4th, 1830 ; livr. 87, Jan. 22nd, 1831 ; livr. 88, May 14th, 1831; 
livr. 89, Feb. 11th, 1832 ; livr. 90, July 28th, 1832 ; livr. 91, Dec. 29th, 1832 ; livr. 92, 
July 26th, 1834 ; livraisons 93-99 according to Crotch and Sherborn appeared in 1835, 
they are not acknowledged in the B.F. ; livrs. 100 and 101, 1836, and livr. 102, Jan. 
1839. In the B.F. the 102nd and last livraison is acknowledged on June 29th, 1839, 
while in the work is a postscript dated Aug. 30th, 1836, “in completing this 101st 
livraison. 5 5 
There can be no doubt that the above dates are correct, as in addition to Sherborn’s 
data from Ferussac’s Bulletin I have given Frorieps, and it will be noted that the B.F. 
absolutely confirms Crotch’s data. The only chance of error is in the binding as noted 
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