SCIENTIFIC I.ISTS 299 



Also in scientific nomenclature it is the custom to give 

 the first scientific name applied to a species as its correct 

 name and treating all subsequently applied names of 

 that species as synonyms. In accordance with this lat- 

 ter custom it has been found necessary to change the 

 long-accepted names of many species for others which 

 were applied by other scientists at earlier dates and 

 which therefore had precedence. For these causes the 

 nomenclature originally used in connection with Mr. 

 Boardman's list differed quite essentially from that now 

 accepted by science. To have published the list of birds 

 with the old nomenclature would have perpetuated errors 

 and employed a language obsolete to science. There- 

 fore the list has been revised to correspond with that of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union. In other particu- 

 lars Mr. Boardman's list as published in the Calais Times 

 remains unchanged. 



In the list of fishes the authority followed in nomen- 

 clature has been The Fishes of North and Middle Amer- 

 ica, by David Starr Jordan, president of Iceland Stanford 

 Junior University and Barton Warren Evermann, Icthy- 

 ologist to the United States Fish Commission, in four 

 volumes, being Bulletin No. 47 of the United States 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C, 189G-1900. In 

 the list of mammals the authority has been American 

 Animals : A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North 

 America north of Mexico, with Intimate Biographies of 

 the More Familiar Species, by Whitmer Stone and Wil- 

 liam Everett Cram, New York,' 1902. In the list of 

 reptiles the authority has been The Century Dictionary 

 and Cyclopedia, New York, 1899. 



