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SEVERAL EUROPEAN AUTHORS. 
Kuhl (1820), a promising ornithologist, died young. He 
worked mainly on Parrots and Cockatoos, and has two generic 
and eight specific names. Proboscigcr (Palm Cockatoo) and 
Ptilonorhynchus (Satin Bower-Bird) are his. Corella, Northern 
Rosella, Western Rosella, and Red-capped Parrot are among his 
species. 
Accompanying two French expeditions were two enthusiastic 
young naturalist-doctors, Quoy and Gaimard. Eleven species 
were taken by these fine workers on the coasts of Australia and 
New Guinea, including the Black and White Wren (Dirk Hartog 
Island), the Twenty-eight Parrot, Western Firetail, Dusky Robin 
and Northern Fantail; these were described in two well illus¬ 
trated works, Voyage de I'Uranie and Voyage de VAstrolabe. 
Temminck, of Amsterdam, became the leading ornithologist 
of his day, and his classification was widely used. Thirty-two 
(two generic and thirty specific) valid names are due to him. 
Cliniacteris (Tree-creeper) and Orthonyx (Chowchilla or Log- 
runner), are his generic names. The Bass Strait Mutton Bird 
(Piiffinus tenuirpstris) was named by him from a Japanese speci¬ 
men in 1834, twelve years before Gould named it the Short-tailed 
Petrel, but over thirty years after Bass and Flinders had used it 
for food. One Temminck name is still in suspense. Malums 
galactotes (from “New Holland”) was considered the Tawny 
Grass-Bird. Close comparison of skins shows a remarkable re¬ 
semblance, though Mathews, I redale and Sclater consider the 
bird so well figured is an African species. Mathews has named 
our bird Dulciornis alisteri. 
Stephens (1826) who continued the work of Dr. Shaw, gave 
eleven (six generic and five specific) valid names. The generic 
names include Botaurus (Brown Bittern), Biziura (Musk Duck) 
and Trichoglossus (Lorikeets). The birds named specifically, 
include Silver Gull, Spurwing Plover, and Masked Owl. 
Swainson (1825) who “as an ornithological artist had no rival 
in his day,” has twenty-four (sixteen generic and eight specific) 
names. The numerous excellent figures in Newton’s Dictionary 
of Birds are mostly from Swainson. He was a capable zoologist, 
and named generically Fruit-Pigeons, Ground-Doves, Tree 
Ducks, Pink-eared Duck, Australian Robins (Petroica) , Yellow 
Robin, Rifle Bird, and Regent Bower-Bird. 
VIGORS AND HORSFIELD. 
In 1827 appeared in the Transactions of the Linncean Society, 
a paper of the first importance. In 1824, Caley collected near 
Sydney for the Linmean Society of London. Vigors and Hors- 
field worked through these collections and described many birds 
new to science. It is said that only half the paper was published, 
the rest being held over and lost. They have altogether over fifty 
