Author:Arthur Gardiner Butler

Arthur Gardiner Butler
(1844–1925)

Arthur Gardiner Butler

Works

Wikispecies provides a fuller list and links to digitised papers by Gardiner.

Entomology

• "Monograph of the species of Charaxes, a genus of diurnal Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865:622–639 (1866)
• Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridae in the Collection of the British Museum (1868)
• Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera Described by Fabricius in the Collection of the British Museum (1870)
• Lepidoptera Exotica, or, Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera (1869–1874)
• Tropical Butterflies and Moths (1873)
• Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand (1874)
• The butterflies of Malacca (1879).
• "Catalogue of the Butterflies of New Zealand" (1880)
• with Herbert Druce (1846–1913), "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica". Cistula entomologica, 1: 95–118 (1872).
• "On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Southern Africa, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species" Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16 (96): 394–420 (1875)
• "Descriptions of Some New Lepidoptera from Kilima-njaro" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 91–98 (1888)
• "On Two Collection of Lepidoptera Sent by H. H. Johnston, Esq., C.B., From British Central Africa" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 643–684, pl. 60 (1894)
• "Description of a New Species of Butterfly of the Genus Amauris Obtained by Mr. Scott Elliot in East Central Africa" Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 16 (91): 122–123 (1895)
• On Lepidoptera recently collected in British East Africa by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 722–742, pl. 42-43 (1896)
• "On Two Collections of Lepidoptera Made by Mr R. Crawshay in Nyasa-land" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 817–850, pl. 41-42 (1897)

Ornithology

• British Birds' Eggs: A Handbook of British Oölogy. London : E.W. Janson (1886) (external scan)
• Butler, Arthur G.; Mathew, Rev. Murray A.; Forbes, Henry O.; Cordeaux, John; Tegetmeier, W.B.; Slater, Rev. Henry H.; Aplin, O.V.; Macpherson, Rev. H.A. (1896). British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. Frohawk, F.W. (ill.). London: Brumby & Clarke.  (in six volumes, published 1896-1898; Butler wrote the first two volumes on the Order Passeres and the text about the Order Picariæ in vol. 3). (external scan)
• Foreign Bird Keeping. London : The Feathered World (1899/1900, in two volumes)
• Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary. London : The Feathered World (1910, in two volumes) (external scan)

Contributions to The Zoologist

3rd series, vol 1 (1877)

• Butler, Arthur G. (1877). "Want of Reflection in the House Sparrow". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 7, July—section 'Occasional Notes'): 299–300. 
• Butler, Arthur G. (1877). "Young Cuckoo in the Nest of a Song Thrush". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 7, July—section 'Occasional Notes'): 300–301. 

4th series, vol 1 (1897)

• —— (1897). "The Flight of the Swift". The Zoologist. 4 1 (issue 667, January—section 'Notes and Queries'): 36. 
• —— (1897). "Foreign Finches in Confinement, with Hints as to the Difficulties Arising from the Association of Various Species in the Same Aviary". The Zoologist. 4 1 (issue 672, June): 251–253. 
• —— (1897). "Inherited Instinct in Birds". The Zoologist. 4 1 (issue 672, June—section 'Notes and Queries'): 275. 
• —— (1897). "Change of Plumage in the American Nonpareil Finch". The Zoologist. 4 1 (issue 673, July—section 'Notes and Queries'): 335–336. 
• —— (1897). "Inherited Habit in Birds". The Zoologist. 4 1 (issue 674, August—section 'Notes and Queries'): 367–368. 

4th series, vol 2 (1898)

• —— (1898). "On Sexual Differences in the Feathering of the Wing of the Sky Lark (Alauda arvensis)". The Zoologist. 4 2 (issue 681, March): 104–105. 
• Butler, Arthur Gardiner, with: Butler, Arthur George (1898). "On the first Primary in certain Passerine birds". The Zoologist. 4 2 (issue 684, June): 241–244. 

4th series, vol 3 (1899)

• Butler, A.G. (1899). "A Stray Visitor to Kent". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 695, May—section 'Notes and Queries'): 221. 
• —— (1899). "Aviculture and its Scientific Status". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 696, June—section 'Notes and Queries', paragraph 'Avicultural Notes'): 273–275. 
• —— (1899). "On Sexual Differences in the Superb Tanager (Calliste fastuosa)". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 697, July—section 'Notes and Queries'): 325–326. 
• —— (1899). "The Colour of the Iris in the Jay". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 700, October—section 'Notes and Queries', paragraph 'Avicultural Notes'): 477. 
• —— (1899). "Chiffchaff building on the top of small Yew and Box Trees". The Zoologist. 4 3 (issue 701, November—section 'Notes and Queries'): 517. 

4th series, vol 4 (1900)

• Butler, Arthur G. (1900). "On Sexual Differences in the Wing of the House-Sparrow (Passer domesticus)". The Zoologist. 4 4 (issue 704, February): 74–75. 
• Butler, A.G. (1900). "Obituary for Dr. Karl Russ". The Zoologist. 4 4 (issue 704, February): 81.  (signed as: "A.G.B."^[1])

4th series, vol 5 (1901)

• —— (1901). "Obituary for Joseph Abrahams". The Zoologist. 4 5 (issue 718, April): 151–152.  (signed as: "A.G.B.")

4th series, vol 6 (1902)

• —— (1902). "A Mimicking Song-Thrush". The Zoologist. 4 6 (issue 731, May): 193. 
• —— (1902). "Avicultural Experiences during about Twenty Years' Study of Birds in Captivity". The Zoologist. 4 6 (issue 733, July): 241–260. 

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

• On the Butterflies of New Zealand (1877)

Works about Butler

• review of Butler et al. 1896 (volumes i, ii and iii): "British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs. Illustrated by F.W. Frohawk. Vols, i., ii., iii.⁠Hull: Brumby & Clarke, Lim". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 1 (1897) (issue 677, November—section 'Notices of New Books'): 525–527. 

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1. The same abbreviation is used for instance in: Butler 1896 (vol. 1), p. 93.