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
1854. H. SCHLEGEL. Ook een woordje over den Dodo en zijne verwanten.
In: Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninglijke Akademie der
Wetenschappen, Afdeel. Naturkunde, Deel II, p. 254.
1857. JAPETUS STEENSTRUP. Bidrag til Geirfuglens Naturhistorie, etc.
In: Naturh. Forening. Vidensk. Meddel. for 1855, Nos. 3-7.
(The first history and bibliography of the Great Auk.)
1858. H. SCHLEGEL. Over eenige uitgestorvene reusachtige Vogels van de
Mascarenhas-eilanden. (Een tegenhanger tot zijne geschiedenis der
Dodo's.)
In: Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninglijke Akademie van
Wetenschappen, Afdeel. Naturkunde, Deel VII, pp. 116-128.
(_Leguatia gigantea_, _Porphyrio (Notornis?) caerulescens_.)
{xx} 1860. A. V. PELZELN. Zur Ornithologie der Insel Norfolk.
In: Sitzungsberichte der Mathemat. Naturwiss. Cl. Akademie Wien Bd.
XLI, No. 15, pp. 319-332. (Mit 1 Tafel.)
(Lengthy account of _Nestor norfolcensis_, from Bauer's Manuscript,
_Notornis alba_, etc.)
1861. ALFRED NEWTON. Abstract of Mr. Wolley's Researches in Iceland
respecting the Gare-fowl.
In Ibis, 1861, pp. 374-399.
1862. W. J. BRODERIP. Notice of an Original Painting, including a
figure of the Dodo.
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1862. WILLIAM PREYER. Ueber _Plautus impennis_.
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1866. OWEN. _Psittacus mauritianus_ named, in Ibis p. 168; also
mentioned in Trans. Zool. Soc. VI, p. 53, 1866.
(See _Lophopsittacus_.)
1866-1873. ALPH. MILNE-EDWARDS. Recherches sur la Faune Ornithologique
Eteinte des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar. Paris 1866-1873.
(With 37 plates. This volume consists of reprints of the author's
articles on the subject in French periodicals, though not a word of
this is mentioned. To the plates originally issued with the
articles, several new ones are added.)
1867. ALFRED NEWTON. On a Picture supposed to represent the Didine Bird
of the Island of Bourbon (Réunion).
In Trans. Zool. Soc. London VI, pp. 373-376. Plate 62.
1867. GEORGE DAWSON ROWLEY. On the Egg of _Aepyornis_, the Colossal
Bird of Madagascar.
In Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1867, pp. 892-895.
1868. FRAUENFELD, GEORGE RITTER VON. Neu aufgefundene Abbildung des
_Dronte_ und eines zweiten kurzflügligen Vogels, wahrscheinlich des
poule rouge au bec de bécasse der Maskarenen, in der Privatbibliothek
S.M. des verstorbenen Kaisers Franz. Wien 1868. Mit 4 Tafeln.
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