THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
explored almost the whole of South Australia, making trips in every direction, sending 
me the specimens, with notes, for my Birds of Australia,, and I have described too 
many novelties from his collections to enumerate here. 
He has described a few himself, as Malurus lamberti morgani in the Austral Av. Rec. 
(Vol. I., p. 126, 1912), Sericornis maculatus rymilli and Glimacteris ivaitei in the Emu 
(Vol. XVI.), Sericornis longirostris wyldei, Acanthiza mariance and Barnardius barnardi 
lindoi in the South Australian Ornithologist (Vol. II.), Barnardius barnardi myrtce 
(Vol. XXXIX.), Lewinornis rufiventris maudece (Vol. XXXIX.), and Micrceca jascinans 
barcoo (Vol. XLI.) in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 
With Mellor, dealing with the birds of Flinders’ Island, were names Megalurus 
flindersi , Sericornis flindersi (Emu, Vol. XII., 1913). 
White, John. —Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, 4to, London, 1790. 
The plates are dated Dec. 29th, 1789, and there is a review in the August number of 
the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1790. Earliest print shows errors as “ A List of Plates ” 
and “ No. 2, Great Brown King’s Fisher, page 237,” should be 137. There is no list of 
subscribers and the draughtsman’s name shows clearly on plates (in later copies missing 
or indistinct). Plate of Wattled Bee-eater missing, but on p. 240 “ The Wattled 
Merops, Merops carunculatus ,” is fully described. In the later copies this page is 
suppressed, and instead a short description of the “ Wattled Bee-eater or Merops ” 
female is given. 
In the Appendix many birds are figured and described: Psittacus cristatus 
Lin., Fulica alba , Motacilla australis , Caprimulgus cristatus , Falco albus , Gorvus gracu- 
linus , Procellaria fuliginosa , Motacilla superba , Motacilla pusilla, Psittacus pusillus , 
Psittacus discolor . Authorship of the bird names accredited to Shaw by Sherborn, 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. VII., June 1891, but Swainson (Prelim. Disc. 
Study Nat. Hist., p. 65, 1834) had many years before stated this, as Cuvier (Regne 
Animal, Vol. IV., p. 156, fc 1817 ” = 1816) had indicated John Hunter, who only wrote 
up the five quadrupeds which are not systematically named. 
A French translation by C. J. Pougens was published : Voyage a la Nouvelle-Galles 
du Sud, a Botany Bay et au Port Jackson en 1787-89, trad, de l’Anglais, avec des notes 
critiques et philosophiques sur l’kistoire naturelle, les moeurs, etc., 8vo, Paris, 1795 
and 1798. 
No plates of birds and no new names. 
Of my two copies one is the original one and the other has 44 This copy was presented 
to me by the editor, Thos. Wilson, Esq. The plates were selected with great care 
and coloured by the hand of Miss Stone.” This was written by D. Pitcairn, after 
whom Pitcairn’s Island was called. 
White was Surgeon-General of the Settlement and employed Thos. Watling to paint 
natural history objects, but Watling did not arrive until after White’s Journal was 
published, so that he could not have furnished the plates illustrating this work, as has 
been stated. 
Whitlock, Frederick Lawson. —Australian present-day collector who has published 
some delightful accounts in the Emu, the first one being under the name F. Lawson 
(q.v.). Many forms have been described from his collecting by H. L. White and myself. 
Widowson, Henry. —Present State Van Diemen’s Land, 8vo, London, 1829. 
Includes notes of Tasmanian Emu. 
Wiglesworth, Lionel William. —Born Feb. 13th, 1865. Died June 7th, 1901. See 
Meyer and Wiglesworth. 
Wilcox. —Collected some birds at Cape York and apparently gave them to Captain 0. 
Stanley, who presented them to the Zoological Society of London, viz., Machcerirhynchus 
flaviventer and Ptilotis filigera . 
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