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
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron
Birds; Extinct birds
(In Vol. II, page 39, are mentioned various birds as occurring on
the Danish West-Indian Islands, which are not found there at
present. "Un todier, nommé vulgairement perroquet de terre" and
seven species of Humming-Birds!)
*1826. BLOXAM. Voyage of the Blonde.
(See _Phaeornis oahensis_, _Loxops coccinea rufa_. Also interesting
notes on other Sandwich-Islands Birds.)
1827. PALLAS. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. II p. 305: _Phalacrocorax
perspicillatus_, the now extinct Cormorant from Bering Island.
{xix} 1830. QUOY ET GAIMARD. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. I p. 242 pl. 24.
(_Coturnix novaezealandiae_ described.)
1830. KITTLITZ. Mémoires Acad. Sc. Pétersburg I.
(Kittlitz describes _Turdus terrestris_ and _Fringilla papa_.)
*1838. POLACK. New Zealand.
(First mention of Moas.)
*1838. DON DE NAVARETTE. Rel. Quat. voy. Christ.
1838. LICHTENSTEIN. Abhandl. K. Akademie d. Wissenschaften p. 448,
plate V.
(_Hemignathus ellisianus_--sub nomine _obscurus_--and _Hemignathus
lucidus_ described.)
1843. DIEFFENBACH'S Travels in New Zealand, 1843. Appendix, Birds, by
J. E. Gray. On page 197 _Rallus dieffenbachii_ described.
1843. OWEN. P.Z.S. 1843, p. 1., letter read from Rev. W. C. Cotton,
mentioning remains of gigantic birds in New Zealand, p. 8 the name
_Dinornis novaezealandiae_ given to the first Moa-bones exhibited.
1846. In the "VOYAGE OF EREBUS AND TERROR," Birds, Gray describes and
figures _Nesolimnas dieffenbachii_.
1847. GOSSE. Birds of Jamaica.
(Cf. _Ara erythrocephala_, _Siphonorhis americanus_ and other
Jamaican birds.)
1848. EDM. DE SÉLYS-LONGCHAMPS. Résumé concern, les Oiseaux brévipennes
mentionnés dans l'ouvrage de M. Strickland sur le Dodo.
In Rev. Zool. 1848, pp. 292-295.
1848. STRICKLAND AND MELVILLE. The Dodo and its kindred; or the
history, affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other
extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon. London
1848.
(141 pages and 15 plates.)
*1848. PEALE. U.S. Expl. Exp. Birds.
(On p. 147, pl. XL, is described and figured the extinct
_Chaetoptila augustipluma_, under the name of _Entomiza
augustipluma_. This work is not available, as only 3 or 4 copies
exist of it, but see:
CASSIN. U.S. Expl. Exp. Mamm. and Orn. p. p. 148 pl. XI (1858).
1851. IS. GEOFFROY-SAINT-HILAIRE. Notice sur des ossements et des oeufs
trouvés a Madagascar dans les alluvions modernes, et provenant d'un
oiseau gigantesque.
In Annales des Scienc. Naturelles, 13 série. Zoologie, tome 40.
(This volume is dated "1850," but the above article is said to have
been read before the Academy on January 27, 1851, therefore the
date of publication must be rather 1851 than 1850.)
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