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THE PICKERING MASTERS

THE WORKS OF
CHARLES DARWIN

Volume 5. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

Part III: Birds

THE WORKS OF
CHARLES DARWIN

EDITED BY
PAUL H. BARRETT AND R. B. FREEMAN

VOLUME
5
THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE
OF H.M.S. BEAGLE
PART III: BIRDS

First published 1992 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Published 2016 by Routledge

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The works of Charles Darwin

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ISBN 13: 978-1-85196-205-1 (hbk)

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME FIVE

The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain FitzRoy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited and Superintended by Charles Darwin. London 183943. Freeman 9.1

Part III: Birds by John Gould, 1841.

Although Goulds name appears on the title page, he was away collecting birds and mammals in Australia for much of the time that this Part was being written. He was only able to prepare brief notes on some of the species, and much of the finished text was by Darwin himself, often writing in the first person. Darwin was given much help by George Robert Gray, an ornithological assistant on the staff of the British Museum. At the end of the fifth and last number there are anatomical descriptions of twelve species. These are by Thomas Campbell Eyton, a Shropshire friend of the Darwin family, who had specialized in the osteology of birds. The fifty superb plates were by Goulds wife Elizabeth.

Amongst the birds described were thirteen species of rather drab finches of the genus Geospiza, which are confined to the Galapagos Islands. These, with some relatives, were to become known, a hundred years later, as Darwins finches. Darwin himself had paid little attention to them when he was in the islands, but they were to have great influence on evolutionary theory later.

Reproduction of the plates

The University of London have kindly given us permission to reproduce the colour plates from their copy of the original numbers. Several of the captions were altered when the numbers were rearranged for publication in book form and we have accordingly reset the captions to conform with the text set from the British Library copy of the bound volume.

The original volumes of the Zoology were, unlike all Darwins other books, printed in quarto. In the present edition the illustrations have been reduced, in this volume to 70 per cent of their original dimensions.

Note

Freeman, R. B. The works of Charles Darwin, an annotated bibliographical handlist, second edition, Folkestone, 1977, p. 29.

Birds

DESCRIBED BY

JOHN GOULD

WITH

A NOTICE OF THEIR HABITS AND RANGES

BY

CHARLES DARWIN

AND WITH AN ANATOMICAL APPENDIX

BY

T. C. EYTON

LIST OF PLATES

CORRIGENDA

I am indebted to Mr G. R. Gray for the following remarks and corrections:

Page 13, to Milvago ocrocephalus, Spix. add

Polyborus ocrocephalus, Jard. &Selbys Ill., t. 5.

Page 15, Milvago leucurus, add

Falco Australis, Jard. & Selbys Ill. Orn., n. s. pl. 24.

Page 49, Serpophaga, Gould, is probably synonymous with Euscarthmus, Pr. Max.

Page 56, Agriornis, Gould, is synonymous with Dasycephala of Swainson, and Tamnolanius, of Lesson; the species therefore should be

sp. 1. D. lividus, G. R. Gray.

Thamnophilus lividus, Kittl. Voy. de Chili, pl. 1.

Tyrannus gutturalis, Eyd. & Gerv. etc.

sp. 2. D. striata, G. R. Gray.

Agr. striatus, Gould.

Agr. micropterus, juv., Gould, sp. 3.

Page 57, sp. 4. D. maritima, G. R. Gray.

Agr. maritimus, G. R. Gray, etc.

Page 66. The generic appellation of Opetiorhynchus, was adopted after the suggestion of Mr Gould; since its publication, however, I have considered that it might cause confusion with Furnarius, of Vicillot, as it is Temmincks name for the identical same division, therefore only a synonym, and are on that ground induced to change and propose the name of Cinclodes, which has been adopted by a Continental writer. The species should be altered thus:

Page 66, Sp. 1. Cinclodes vulgaris, G. R. Gray.

Page 67, sp. 2. C. Patagonicus, G. R. Gray, List of Genera of Birds.

sp. 3. C. antarcticus, G. R. Gray.

Cinclodes fuliginosus, Less.

Page 68, sp. 4. C. nigrofumosus, G. R. Gray.

Page 69, Eremobius, being previously employed, it is changed to Enicornis, G. R. Gray. This species to

En. phoenicurus, G. R. Gray, List of the Genera of Birds.

Page 70, Rhinomya, being also previously employed; it is therefore changed to Rhinocrypta, G. R: Gray. The species to R. lanceolata, G. R. Gray.

Page 76, for Synallaxis major, Gould, read Anumbius acuticaudatus, G. R. Gray.

Furnarius annumbi, Vieill.

LAnnumbi, Azara, No. 222.

Anthus acuticaudatus, Less.

Anumbius anthoides, DOrb. &Lefr.

Page 94, Fringilla fruticeti, Kittl. gives place to

Fringilla erythrorhyncha, Less. Voy. Thetis, ii, p. 324.

ADVERTISEMENT

When I presented my collection of Birds to the Zoological Society, Mr Gould kindly undertook to furnish me with descriptions of the new species and names of those already known. This he has performed, but owing to the hurry, consequent on his departure for Australia an expedition from which the science of Ornithology will derive such great advantages he was compelled to leave some part of his manuscript so far incomplete, that without the possibility of personal communication with him, I was left in doubt on some essential points. Mr George Robert Gray, the ornithologist assistant in the Zoological department of the British Museum, has in the most obliging manner undertaken to obviate this difficulty, by furnishing me with information with respect to some parts of the general arrangement, and likewise on that most intricate subject the knowledge of what species have already been described, and the use of proper generic terms. I shall endeavour in every part of the text to refer to Mr G. R. Grays assistance, where I have used it. As some of Mr Goulds descriptions appeared to me brief, I have enlarged them, but have always endeavoured to retain his specific character; so that, by this means, I trust I shall not throw any obscurity on what he considers the essential character in each case; but at the same time, I hope, that these additional remarks may render the work more complete.

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