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251, i^l. xii, fiu,'. 1); Lophophorus Schiferi, Jerdoii (Ibis, 1S7(>, 147); 

 LoricuJus Schtlf'ri, Wallaco (Proc. Zool. Soc, 18(52, '.V.M')^ [)1. x.wviii); 

 LoxiijUht uoctis Schif(r/, ^Vlleii (Uull. Nutt. Oni. Club, \', l')G); 

 Meijapicus Sclaferi, ^rallicrbo (Picida', I, 22, 150, 105, pi. viii, fig'. 1; 

 pi. XXXV, lii>'. 8); Micropijgia Svlateri, Bonaparte (Compt. Rend., 

 XLIII, 599) Jlyiarchus Sclateri, Lawrence (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 

 357); MijznxieJd Sclaferi, Forbes (Proc. Zool. 8oe., 1870, 205, pi. xxv, 

 fig. 2); Ornifhion Sclaferi, lierlepschancri'aezanowski (Pi-oe. Zool. Soc., 

 1883, 554); Penelope Sclaferi, Gray (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1800, 270); Phile- 

 mon Sclaferi, Gray (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 1870, 327); Picnmmis 

 Sclaferi, Taczanowski (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, 327); Plecfropferiis 

 Sclaferi, Sousa (Jorn. Ac. Sci. Lisb., II, 157); Poliopfila Sclaferi, 

 Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, 449); Psiffacula Sclaferi, Gray (List 

 Psittacid?e Brit. Mus., 80); Pfernisfes Sclaferi, Bocage (Jorn. Ac Sci. 

 Lisb., I, 327, pi. vi); Sijnallaxis Sclaferi, Cabanis (Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1878, 190); Tanagra Sclaferi, Berlepscli (Ibis, 1880, 112); Thripopliaga 

 Sclaferi, Berlepscli (Ibis, 1883, 490, pi. xiii); Thryofliorus Sclaferi, 

 Taczanowski (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879,222); Triccu.s Sclaferi, CixXrAwxii 

 and Heine (Mus. Ilein., II, 51) ; Xiphocolapfes Sclaferi, Ridgway (Proc 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, (>). 



In conclusion, I quote the l>rief appreciations of Mr. Sclater written 

 by representative American naturalists whom I have invited to place 

 upon record their judgment as to the value of his services to science. 



Dr. Clinton Hai't Men-iam, chief of the division of economic orni- 

 thology and mammalogy of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, writes as follows: 



The vahie of Sclater 's contrilmtions to American ornithology can hardly be ovei 

 estimated. What Nuttall and Wilson and Aiiduhon and Baird have done for the 

 birds of North America. Sclater has done for those of Central and South America. 

 There is this difference in the method of treatment — that while the publications of 

 North American ornithologists have been chiefly faunal or geographic, Sclater "s 

 have been for the most part systematic, dealing with assemblages of species rather 

 than with the ornithology of special areas, though he has made some important 

 faunal contributions also. In the field of zoological geography he early attained 

 distinction, and his primary regions, based on the distribution of birds, have been 

 widely accepted. 



The excellent bibliography of his writings, jjrepared and published by the United 

 States National ^luseum, is not only a model for this kind of work, but is also a 

 most useful aildition to the literature of systematic zoology. 



For half a century Sclater has given practically the whole of his time to the 

 study of birds and mammals. For nearly forty years he has had charge of the 

 principal zoological publication of the world (the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of Londcjii ) , and the greater part of the time has editei. t he leading orni- 

 thological journal (The Ibis), so that a large share of the literature of zoology has 

 passed directly under his eye. During the whole of this long period he has been 

 at the head of one of the best zoological gardens and the greatest zoological soci- 

 ety ever established — the Zoological Society of London. Naturally his office came 

 to be the meeting ground of naturalists from all quarters of the globe, and speci 

 mens of new and rare animals continually poured into his hands. For these 

 reasons he has ])een in a position, more than any other man of his time, to keep 



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