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LEACH, Naming Australian Birds 
The Emu 
Jan. 
SOME NOTABLE WORKERS. 
Three notable dividers of genera were contemporaneous with 
Gould: (a) Reichbenbach, a German, has fourteen valid generic 
and two specific names; (b) Prince Bonaparte has sixteen generic 
and one specific name; and (c) Cabanis has seven generic names. 
Most of these were used in Gould’s Handbook. Though Linnaeus 
employed few genera and Vieillot apparently increased the num¬ 
ber (273) greatly, yet Gray (1840-1849) listed 2400 generic 
names (not all valid), that had been used for birds. 
Eyton working amongst Ducks named one genus and three 
species found in Australia; Hodgson likewise has three names, 
and Blyth, also working in India, gave two generic names and 
one specific name to a bird later named as new in Australia. His 
specific name was for the Australian White-browed Tree-creeper, 
apparently sent in exchange from the National Museum, 
Melbourne. 
PART IV—AFTER GOULD. 
From the completion of Gould’s Supplement of the Birds o) 
Australia (1869) to the present day — one-third of the period 
under review—there have been added only about 10 per cent, of 
the valid names. This is not due to any want of interest or 
endeavour, but to the thorough work of Gould and his associates, 
of whom three — Gilbert, Drummond and Strange — met death in 
the field. A. J. Campbell, in his “Nests and Eggs,” has given a 
good account of Australian field workers; here we are concerned 
only with the givers of valid names. 
SOME LATER-DAY WORKERS. 
Dr. Ramsay (Australian Museum, Sydney) gave eleven valid 
specific names (two before 1869), and De Vis (Queensland 
Museum, Brisbane) gave one generic and six specific names, in¬ 
cluding Scricornis tyrannula (the Charleville Scrub Wren) ; the 
unique type specimen has been lost. Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 
(British Museum) gave seven generic names. Count Salvadori 
(Milan, Italy), one of the leading ornithologists of the age, has 
four generic and three specific names for birds, mainly of the 
north. The late A. J. North (Australian Museum) has four 
generic and eleven specific names, mainly for birds of the dry 
interior. Professor McCoy (National Museum) gave names to 
two species. He was just beaten by Gould in the publication of 
a name for the rare Helmeted Honcyeater called cassidix by 
Gould and leadbeateri by McCoy. Stejneger, before he left birds 
for reptiles, wrote the section on Birds for the Standard or 
Riverside Natural History. He there introduced two generic 
names — Atrichornis and Aniytornis — for the preoccupied names 
—Atrichia and Amytis. His descriptions were brief, but un¬ 
mistakable. Mathews accepted Atrichornis, but rejected Aniy¬ 
tornis as a “nude” name, not properly defined or indicated. 
