BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Isis, 1832, lieft xi., cols. 1218-1235. 
Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Saugethiere und Vogel. 
Helopus, Planetis, HaUplana , Laropis, Tantalides , Chenopis. 
Natiirlich.es System der Amphibien, Mfinchen, Stuttgart, and Tiibingen, Aug. 1830. 
In this unexpected place new species of birds are described. 
Sterna serrata . 
Abhandl. Ak. Wissensch. Miinchen, Vol. I., pp. 463-750, 1832. 
Monographia Psittacorum. 
The Introduction to this volume is dated Dec. 1832, while the separate copies were 
apparently not issued until 1835. A good monographic account based on Kuhl’s essay. 
Calyptorhynchus stellatus, Corydon, Licmetis, Eclectics , Polytelis, Euphema. 
The papers that appeared in the Isis were collected and reprinted by the Willughby 
Society (q.v.). 
Waite, Edgar Ravenswood. —Bom 1866. Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand, edited 
by 0. Chilton, 2 vols., Wellington, Christchurch, 1909. 
Vol. L, pp. 551-584, Aves by E. R. Waite, 1909. 
Wall, Thomas. —Illustrated Sydney Herald, June 3rd, 1854. 
In this newspaper Casuarius australis is said to have been named, while in the 
“Australian,” Oct. 15th, 1866, Muller is said to have named Casuarius johnsonii. 
Wallace, Alfred Russel. —Born 1823. Died 1913. English Naturalist who collected 
in the East Indies, and from study there became interested in the evolution of animals, 
and wrote his epoch-making letter w T hich was read along with Darwin's, and became the 
basis of all scientific work to date. His bird collections were reported upon in the Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) by G. R. Gray, but when Wallace came back he wrote some reports 
himself and in the Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1865, p. 480, named Porzana moluccana . 
Waller, Charles, of Brisbane, from whose paintings Gould described Aprosmictu& 
insignissimus (a hybrid) and Cyclopsitta maccoyi . 
Waterhouse, Charles Oweft. —Born 1843. Died 1917. Index Zoologicus. An Alphabetical 
List of names of genera and subgenera proposed for use in zoology, as recorded in the 
“Zoological Record,” 1880-1900, together with other names not included in the 
“Nomenclator Zoologicus” of S. H. Scudder, 8vo, London, (pref. Sept. 1st) 1902. 
Index Zoologicus, No. n., 8vo, London, (pref. Oct. 28th) 1912. 
These are supplementary to Scudder (q.v.) and bring the names up to 1910 ; unfor¬ 
tunately, through Waterhouse’s death. No. III. is not yet prepared, though it is most 
seriously needed. 
Waterhouse, Frederick George. —Bom 1815. Died 1898. Australian collector who 
accompanied Sturt’s Exploring Expedition into Central Australia and collected the 
new bird, named Polytelis alexandrce by Gould, at Howells Ponds, Northern Territory. 
Later, was in charge of the Museum at Adelaide and furnished account of birds 
published in Harcus’ South Australia (q.v.). 
Sent to Gould birds collected by Andrews on Lake Eyre Expedition, including Amytes 
goyderi , and later, birds from Northern Territory, etc., from which Gould named Seisura 
mm, Xerophila pectoralis and Sternula placens . 
Waterhouse, Frederick Herschel. —Bom 1845. Died 1919. Librarian to the 
Zoological Society of London. 
The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, 
F.R.S., London, 8vo, 1885. 
Includes a Biographical Sketch, but only gives the dates, in years, of the Mammals 
of Australia, Monograph of the Macropodidse, Birds of Great Britain, Asia, Australia, 
Monographs of the Trochilidae, Odontophorinae, and Trogonidae. At the present time 
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