BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Ibis, 1885. 
On two Birds from Norfolk Island. 
Platycercus pennanti var nobbsi , Halcyon norjolkiensis. 
Catalogue of a Collection of Birds, Tristram, Durham, 4to, (pref. Aug. 3rd) 1889. 
Received B.M., Dec. 14th, 1889. 
Tschtjdi, Johann Jakob. —Bom 1818. Died 1889. Journ. fur Orn., heft for March 1856. 
Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, Vol. XLIL, p. 593, states this “ paru a la fin d’aout.” 
Sur la distribution geographique des Oiseaux marines. 
Tunney, J. T —Australian collector who secured specimens for the West Australian 
Museum and then made an expedition into North-west Australia, reported upon by 
Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XI., pp. 194-242, 1905, the wonderful Amytornis woodwardi 
being the chief item, but this was overlooked and not named till later. 
[Tunstall, Mabmadtjke]. —Born 1743. Died 11th Oct., 1790. Ornithologica Britannica, 
folio, 1771. 
This anonymous, unwieldy publication was reprinted by the Willughby Society 
(q.v.), and the names proposed are now accepted by all workers, though up to a little 
while ago they were not accepted by workers w r ho professed to reject anonymous works. 
Fox states that it was not published for sale. 
Tunstall was a good ornithologist, and a good account of him is given by Fox in 
the Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum (1827), which was based on Tunstall’s collection 
and includes a portrait of Tunstall. 
Falco peregrinus. 
Valenciennes, Achille. —Bom 1794. Died 1865. Mem. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris), 
Vol. VI., pp. 20-27, (before Aug.) 1820. 
Observations sur le genre des Langrayens et description de quatre nouvelles especes. 
Ocypterus fuscatus, albovittalus . 
Also wrote some monographs in the Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), q.v. 
Vancouver, George. —Bom about 1758. Died 1798. Voyage of Discovery to the North 
Pacific and round the World, 1790-95, in the Discovery and Chatham, 3 vols., 4to, 
London, 1798. 
Vancouver called at King George’s Sound, South-west Australia, and notes that a 
peculiar duck was shot by Menzies the surgeon, the type of Biziura lobata Shaw and 
Nodder. 
Van Oort, Eduard Daniel. —Bom 1876. Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. 
XXXII., pp. 71-72, Jan. 1910. 
On a new form of the genus Psephotus. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius blaauwi , 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV., pp. 66-69, 1911. 
On the Catalogue of the Collection of Birds brought together by A. Vroeg. 
Nova Guinea, Vol. IX., Zool., livr. i., 4to, Leiden, 1909. 
Birds from South-western and Southern New Guinea. 
Records several Australian forms (not previously noted extra limitally) from New 
Guinea. 
Victorian Naturalist .—An important little publication published monthly at Melbourne, 
the official organ of the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria. Each number is dated 
with date of publication. Began January, 1884, and 12 parts appear each year. . 
Contains a mass of bird-notes, probably more than in all the other publications, m 
Australia except the Emu, which is a younger Journal founded by Victorian 
ornithologists. 
North published new species in this place while he ignored the Emu. . Milligan and 
Hall and others have also named new forms, but the Journal would be invaluable tor 
its field-notes were nothing novel included. 
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