303 Messrs. C. D. Sherboni and T. Iredale on [Ibis, 



Family Tuknicid^ [Hemipodes]. 

 Turnix nana (Sand.). (Kelsali.) 



Family Phasianid.e [Game-Birds], 



Fruncolinus bicalcaratus thornei Grant. (Thorne, Parks, 



Kemp, Kelsali, Lowe i, ii.) 

 Fraricolinus lathanii lathami Hartl. (Kemp.) 

 Fi'ancoUnus ahantensis Temm. (Kemp, Kelsali.) 

 ? Ptilopachus fuscus fuscus Vieill. (P. Niel ex .Tardine Coll.) 

 ^Coturnix cotuniix. (Kelsali.) 

 Excalfacturia adansoni (Verr.). (Kelsali.) 

 Guttera cristatn (Pall.). (Afzelius, Manger.) 

 Nuniida meleagris Linn. (Lowe ii.) 



XVL— J. F. Miller's Irenes. 

 By (J. Davies Shbrborn and Tom Iredale. 



Miller's Icones Aniinalium : [Various Subjects of Natural 

 History] 177G-1785, may be regarded as a rare book. 

 Drvander, Cut. Bibl. Banks, states "10 pp., 60 pis."; 

 Pritzel copies him ; Watts gives no details, but wrote 

 " London, 1785 : Large folio. £6. 6. 0." Lowndes says 

 " 1785. 17l! pp., 12 pis. and 2 leaves of text" ; Engelmann 

 contents himself with " In Nos. 1785." Eliminating 

 Lowndes' entry which is obviously incorrect, the conclusion 

 can be reached that the book was issued in 10 parts and 

 contained GO plates, which is the extent of the ' ( *imelia 

 Pliysica,' a well-known work. The ' Cimelia Physica ' was 

 issued in 1796, and consists of 60 plates by Miller with 

 106 pages of explanatory text written by George Shaw. 



When Sherborn completed the 'Index Animalium' 1758- 

 1800, the only known (to him) copy was in the British 

 Museum from Sir Joseph Banks's library, and this contained 



* Named binominally and no author given, aa it is not clear which 

 Quail is intended. 



