THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Voyage au Pole Sud. —Captain Dumont d’Urville. Naturalists, Hombron and Jacquinot. 
See Pucheran. 
Voyage de la Thetis. —Lesson described the Birds. 
Voyage de VUranie et Physicienne. —Captain Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet. Born 
1779. Died 1842. Naturalists, Quoy and Gaimard. 
Toy age de la Venus .—Captain Louis Marie Aubert Du Petit Thouars. Born 1758. 
Died 1831. 
Vroeg, Adrian. —Catalogue raisonne, D’une Collection superieurement belle D’Oiseaux, 
Tant exotiques qu’Europe’ens, de Quadrupeds et DTnsectes. [Title page also in Dutch, 
the above reading : Beredeneerde Catalogus, van eene, by uitstek fraaye en weergaalooze 
Verzameling, zoo van Inlandsche als Uitheemsche Yogelen, viervoetige en gekorvene 
Dieren.] 8vo, La Haye, (before Sept. 22nd) 1764. 
This little work was brought to the notice of ornithologists in the Smithsonian 
Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. 47, pp. 332-341, 342-347, Jan. 31st, 
1905, in two items : 
The New Species of Birds in Vroeg’s Catalogue, 1764, by C. Davies Sherborn, pp. 
332-341. 
Notes on the Birds described by Pallas in the “ Adumbratiuncula ” of Vroeg’s 
Catalogue. By Charles W. Richmond, pp. 342-347. 
The first paper contains a reprint of the “ Adumbratiuncula ” which covers seven 
pages of descriptions of thirty-eight species, thirty-five of which were supposed to be 
new. The Catalogue itself contained 49 pages, describing the items in Dutch, but 
sometimes with Latin names in conjunction. Thus, while Scolopax testacea and 
Trynga leucophcea appear in the Catalogue, Scolopax testacea and Trynga alba are 
described in the Adumbratiuncuke. In addition are used Sterna albifrons , Colynibus 
ruficollis and Trynga ralloides. Witmer Stone has advised the rejection of the names 
in the Catalogue, but the acceptance of those in the Adumbratiunculse, and this is now 
agreed to. Van Oort (Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV., pp. 66-69, 
1911) would reject all the names on the score of anonymity, but that is no bar whatever 
to acceptance. The references to Pallas’ authorship are : Linne, Syst. Nat., 12 e ed., 
p. 298, 1766, quotes Turdus puniceus Pallas, Adumbr. 99 : this is No. 99 in the Adumbr., 
p. 2, with the name Turdus puniceus. Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 199, 
1827, says he described Trynga alba in Catal. Vroegiani, append. Adumbr., and this 
Trynga alba appears for No. 320, p. 7, of the Adumbr. 
Wagler, Johann Georg. —Brilliant German Ornithologist who was accidentally killed at the 
early age of 32. Bom 1800, died 1832. 
Systema Avium, pars prima, 8vo, Stuttgartiae and Tubingae, 1827. 
A series of concise Monographs of which Charadrius, Manorhina, Sturnus , Paradisea y 
Colaris , Epimachus , Ciconia , Leptopteryx, Ardea, Megapodius , Coracias, Gracula , 
Columba, Plilonorhynchus, Corvus, Oriolus, and Ibis interest us. 
New species quoted are Columba erythrauchen , Columba chrysochlora , Columba inscripta, 
(0. leueogaster ), (C. lawsonii Sieber), Charadrius gallinaceus , Ch. pectoralis, Ch. xantho- 
cheilus , Ch. cirrhepidesmos, Ch. gularis, Ch. geoffroyi, Ch. monachus , Ciconia leucoptera, 
Sturnus virescens , Ardea bullaragang , Ardea leucops , Ardea poiciloptila , Megapodius 
menura , Ptilonorhynchus squamulosus , Pt. viridis , Corvus coroneoides , Pica gularis. 
Isis, 1829, hefte 5, 6 and 7, cols. 515-519, 645-664, 736-762. 
Beitrage mid Bemerkungen zu dem ersten Bande seine Systema Avium. 
Charadrius glaucopus , Ch. columbinus , Ch. giganteus , Ardea intermedia. 
Isis, 1832, heft n., cols. 275-282. 
Mittheilungen fiber einige merkwfirdige Thiere. 
Pelecanopus , Onychoprion , Dendronessa. 
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