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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times — John Shaqi

Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical timesRothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

Name: Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times
Author: Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Birds; Extinct birds

(In this ominous work, which, through an article by Poche in Zool.
        Anz. 1904, has recently caused so much quite unnecessary
        disturbance among nomenclatorists--cf. Hartert, Zool. Anz. 1904, p.
        154, and Proc. IV. Int. Orn. Congress, pp. 276-283. The Dodo is
        mentioned under the name "Raphus.")

    1763. L'ABBÉ DE LA CAILLE. Journal Historique du Voyage fait au Cap de
    Bonne-espérance.

        (Some birds from Mauritius mentioned, but no descriptions.)

    1773. VOYAGE A L'ISLE DE FRANCE, à l'isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne
    Espérance, etc. Avec des observations nouvelles sur la nature et sur
    les hommes. Par un officier du roi. Neuchatel 1773.

    1775. A voyage to the island of Mauritius, etc. By a French Officer.
    (Translation of the above).

        (Lettre IX, page 67, treats of the "Animals natural to the isle of
        France.")

    1782. SONNERAT. Voyage aux iles orientales et à la Chine. Two volumes,
    1782.

        (In Volume II, on plate 101, opposite page 176, the extinct
        _Alectroenas nitidissima_ is figured, under the name of "Pigeon
        hollandais.")

    *1783 (?) CALLAM. Voyage Botany Bay.

        (According to Gray _Notornis alba_ is mentioned under the name of
        "White Gallinule.")

    1786. SPARRMANN. Museum Carlsonianum I.

        (On pl. 23 _Pomarea nigra_ Sparrm.)

    1789. G. DIXON. Voyage round the World.

        (On p. 357 is note and figure of the extinct _Moho apicalis_, under
        the name of the "Yellow-tufted Bee-eater.")

    1789. BROWNE, PATRICK. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica.

    1789. THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP to Botany Bay, etc. London 1789.

        (Among other interesting birds _Notornis stanleyi_ is figured on
        the plate opposite p. 273.)

    1790. J. WHITE. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five
    Plates of Nondescript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, etc. London
    MDCCXC.

        (I have a copy with black and white, and another with coloured
        plates. _Notornis alba_.)

    1804. HERMANN. Observationes Zoolog.

        (On page 125 the extinct Bourbon _Palaeornis_ is described as
        _Psittacus semirostris_.)

    1807. M. F. PÉRON. Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, exécuté
    par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi, etc., etc. 2 vols. 1807 and
    1816 and Atlas.

        (On p. 467 is described the Little Emu from Kangaroo Island, which
        I have named _Dromaius peronii_, in honour of its discoverer,
        François Péron. A memoir of this extraordinary and admirable man's
        short and brilliant life will be found in Vol. VI of the
        "Naturalist's Library," Edinburgh, 1843.)

    1810. ANDRÉ PIERRE LEDRU. Voyage aux iles de Ténériffe, la Trinité,
    Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto-Ricco, exécuté par ordre du
    Gouvern. français, etc., etc. Two volumes, 1810.

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