THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Paradiseidse by Rothschild, April 1898. 
Trochilidse by Hartert, Feb. 1900. 
Zosteropidse by Finsch, March 1901. 
Paridas, Sittidse and Certhiidae by Hellmayr, March 1903. 
Thunberg. Carl Peter. —Bom 1743. Died 1828. Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. (Stockh.), 
Vol. XXXIII., pp. 152-156, 1812. 
Anmarkningar om de Svalor, som bygga gele-asktige atbare Nasten. 
Hirundo fuciphaga. 
Townsend, Charles Haskins. —Born at Parnassus, Pa., Sept. 29th, 1859. Honorary 
degree of Sc.D. (Washington and Jefferson Univ., 1909). Was assistant in U.S. Fish 
Commission in 1883, and held various posts there until 1902. As naturalist on the 
steamer “ Albatross, 5 ’ he visited many islands and coast points on both Atlantic and 
Pacific sides of North, Central and South America, and the West Indies, and in 
1899-1900 he visited parts of Polynesia during the cruise of the 44 Albatross,” as a 
member of the Agassiz Expedition. Since 1902 has been Director of the New York 
Aquarium. During his connection with the Fish Commission (later called the Bureau 
of Fisheries) made large collections in various branches of natural history, and has 
written reports on some of them. With Wetmore, reported on the birds of the 
Agassiz Pacific Expedition. 
Townsend, Charles Haskins (born 1859) and Wetmore, Frank Alexander (born 1886).— 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard), Vol. LXIII., pp. 151-225, Aug. 1919. 
Reports Scientific Results Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, U.S. Albatross, 1899- 
1900 : The Birds, 
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. —A quarto publication began in 1791, and 
many interesting articles in the early years by Shaw, Davies, Latham, followed by 
Horsfiekl, Raffles, and Vigors and Horsfield. I have given the dates of publication 
from Slierborn’s MS. of Vol. I to XX. in the Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pp. 471-477. 
I reproduce those relating to Vols. I.-XV., which cover the articles from which I quote : 
Vol. I., Nov. 24th, 1791 ; Vol. II., 1794; Vol. III., 1797 ; Vol. IV., May 24th, 1798; 
Vol. V., Feb. 20th, 1800 ; Vol. VI., June 5th, 1802 ; Vol. VII., 1804 ; Vol. VIH., 1807; 
Vol. IX., 1808; Vol. X., pt. 1, pp. 1-228, 1810, pt. 2, pp. 229-414, 1811; Vol. XI., 
pt. 1, pp. 1-178, 1813, pt. 2, pp. 179-430, 1815 ; Vol. XII., pt. 1, pp. 1-290, 1817, pt. 2, 
pp. 291-598, about July 1819; Vol. XIII., pt. 1, pp. 1-276, May 1821, pt. 2, pp. 277— 
637, 1822 ; Vol. XIV., pt. 1, pp. 1-170, 1823, pt. 2, pp. 171-394, 1824, pt. 3, pp. 395-605, 
before July 1825 ; Vol. XV., pt. 1, pp. 1-334, Feb. 17th, 1827, pt. 2, pp. 335-533, 1827. 
Vigors and Horsfield’s Essay on Australian Birds ( q.v .) appeared in Vol. XV., pt. 1, 
which was issued Feb. 17th, 1827, though commonly quoted as 1826. 
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. —Issued 3 7 early in various months of the year 
succeeding, date from May to November. The first volume published in 1869 contained 
a reprint of Buffer's Essay, originally issued in 1865; this first volume was itself reprinted 
in later years. Buffer, Hutton and Potts contributed many interesting articles on 
New Zealand birds, and some relate to sea-birds such as Petrels which must be looked 
up, while Reischek also wrote about Petrels in this Journal. 
Tregellas, Thomas. —Australian present-day Ornithologist who has contributed articles 
to the Emu and sent me notes and specimens which have been used in my Birds of 
Australia. 
Tristram, Henry Baker {Canon). —Born May 11th, 1822. Died March 8th, 1906. Great 
English Ornithologist at whose house the idea of the British Ornithologists’ Union 
was first suggested, at least so it is commonly reported. 
Memoir, Ibis, 1906, p. 602. 
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