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commenced at Nlirnberg the publication of an edition in German of the " Sys- 

 tema Naturae" of Linnaeus, under the following title: " Des Ritters Carl von 

 Linn, Koniglich Schwefaischen Leibarztes, &c, &c, vollstandiges Natur- 

 system, nach der zwolften lateinischen Ausgabe und nach Anleitung des 

 holliindischen Houttuynischen Werks, mit einer ausfiirlichen Erkliirung 

 ausgefertiget von Philipp Ludwig Statius Muller, Prof, der Naturgeschichte 

 zu Erlang und Mitglied der Rom. Kais. Akademie der Naturforscher, &c." 

 which was completed by him to the end of the Animal Kingdom. This work 

 is contained in seven volumes, so styled, but bound in nine thick octavo vol- 

 umes, including a " Supplements und Register Band," the date of publication 

 of which is 1776, and of which it is especially the object of this paper to 

 give some account.* 



This edition of Prof. Muller contains all the species given in the twelfth 

 edition of the "Systema Naturae," and in the Supplementary Volume he 

 gives a large number of others, which are (as he states in the preface) from 

 the " Addenda, Appendices und Mantissas des Ritters von Linne\" and the 

 works of " Buffon, Schreber, Boddaert, Pallas und andern." The numbering 

 of species under each genus is continued from the twelfth edition of the 

 " Systema Naturae." 



In this volume Prof. Muller gives nearly all of the species of Birds des- 

 cribed by Buffon, not previously given by Linnaeus, and generally translates 

 the Dutch names and descriptions of Boddaert's " Kortbegrip" into German. 

 To very nearly all of his additional species, and perhaps especially to those 

 from Boddaert, he gives scientific and strictly binomial names, which are, for 

 many species, the first ever given to birds described and figured in Buffon's 

 " Planches Enlumin^es." As stated above, Boddaert gave names himself to 

 many of the same birds in 1783, but the date of Muller's Supplement is 1776, 

 thus having clear priority. 



In his Supplemental Volume, Prof. Muller gives a large number of species 

 in other classes, and names some species of Quadrupeds, Reptiles and In- 

 sects apparently for the first time. His "Register fiber samliche sechs Theile 

 des Linneischen Thierreichs," in the same volume, appears to be a complete 

 catalogue of all the species of Animalia contained in the twelfth edition of 

 the Systema Naturae of Linnteus, and seems to have been prepared very 

 carefully. It is superior to Gmelin's Indices, (Syst. Nat. i. pt. vii.) 



The following are the species of Birds given in this Supplementary Vol- 

 ume, and regarded by Prof. Muller as additional to the species of the Systema 

 Naturae. Those species which appear to be named for the first time are here 

 given in small capitals. 



The numbering of genera is the same as that of Linnaeus, and the number- 

 ing of species is continued in the order of the twelfth edition of the Systema 

 Naturae. I have not attempted to give those species their places in modern 

 genera, but quote only as synonymes the names of Boddaert, Gmelin and 

 others. 



Names of Birds given in the Supplementary Volume of Prof. Mailer's edition of 

 Linnaeus' Systema Naturse, and regarded by him as additional to those described 

 in the twelfth original edition. 



42. Genus FALCO, Linn. 



33. Falco (Aquila) leucorypha, Pallas. 



Aquila leucorypha, Pall., Trav. i. p. 454 (1771.) 



34. Falco regulus, Pallas, Trav. ii. p. 707 (1773.) 



* There are two other volumes, of which Dr. Johann Wolf is author, ;NuruberK, 1796 and 

 1808, avowedly supplemental to Prof. Muller's edition of the Systema Naturae. They contain 

 Mammalia. There is also an abridgement of this edition in two volumes whiih I have not seen. 

 Cuvier mentions Miiller's edition, quite unjustly, (Kegne Animal iv. p. 144 (1817). 



1864.] 



