Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium: additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica.

Berlin: Salfeld, 1811.
Octavo, xviii 301 pp. Later half calf and marbled boards, with the bookplate of H. M. Whittell.

A rare and important work on early ornithological nomenclature. The adoption of the taxa "Family" is attributable to Illiger's Prodromus. "... a descriptive lists of orders, families and genera, the species of each genus being named. The generic name Pezoporus for the Australian Ground Parrot is here introduced among a number of other new generic names " (Whittell p. 363)

Wood p. 397; Zimmer p. 347. See also Stressman, Ornithology: from Aristotle to the present. Cambridge: 1975.