ifoVlTATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 358 



SOME NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES. 



By ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D. 



AN OVERLOOKED PUBLICATION. 



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N neither of the Records of Publications on Zoology have I found any 

 mention of the following work : 



ORNITHOLOGIA DE ARAGON 



R. P. LONGINOS NAVAS, S.J. 



Articulos publicados en la revi-sta cient6fica Anales de Faculdad 



de Ciencias de Zaragoza. 



ZARAGOZA. 



1907. 



Thirty-two pages of this work have so far appeared, viz. the Introduction 

 (5 pages), Corvidae, Sturnidae, Oriolidae, Fringillidae, Alaudidae, Motacillidae, 

 Certhiidae, and Sittidae. 



Considering the small number of publications dealing with the ornithology 

 of Spain, a large country with varied natural conditions and faunal districts, from 

 the glaciers of the High Pyrenees to the sunburnt rocks of Gibraltar, every 

 work on Spanish bu'ds is welcome and useful, and especially do we need a list 

 of the birds of Aragon, as none exists. There seems to exist only one work on 

 the fauna of that provmce : Asso, " Introductio in Oryctographiam et Zoologiam 

 Aragoniae" of 1784. The Aves de Espana of Arevalo y Baca, 1887, gives some 

 notes on Aragon buds, but altogether the birds of that province may be called 

 unknown. Even now a complete or probably any systematic ornithological 

 exploration of Aragon seems not to have taken place, but the chief sources of 

 Navas' list are the collections in the Museum of the Faculty of Science of the 

 University, the " Colegio del Salvador," and in the Institute of the Veterinary 

 School in Saragoza, thus tangible proofs, which are always better than mere 

 observations in the field, for the purjjose of local lists. 



The arrangement, nomenclature, and other detaUs are professedly based on 

 my book "Las Aves de ZaJ^awriapaZedr/ica," by which the author means of course 

 the Vogel der paldarktischen Fauna. From my book are evidently taken also the 

 mam portions of many descriptions, and even my text-figures are mostly copied. 

 It is, however, strange that, after so much use being made of my book, my name 

 is constantly spelt Hartet, instead of Hartert. 



The plan of the book is good : a short characteristic of the families, genera, 

 and species, but the chief item to us, the occurrences (one can hardly say dis- 

 tribution from these meagre records) in Aragon, are often very short and poor. 

 After the scientific name the Spanish vernacular names are added. Asso's 

 statements are reprinted, which is most welcome, as Asso's work is rather rare 

 and hardly known to ornithologists, though there is a copy in the Natural 

 History Museum in South Kensington, London. 



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