Recenthj published Ornithulogical Works. 521 



Diver [Colymbus ai'cticus), and Red-throated Diver 

 ( C. septentrionalis) ." 



After a discussion the foHowing amendment was proposed 

 by Dr. Sclatcr and seconded by Mr. Bidwell : — 



" That the subject be referred to the Committee of 

 the Union to report on at the next Meeting.'^ 



On the understanding that " the next Meeting " shouhl be 

 the Special Meeting to be held in the autumn and that the 

 matter should not be lield over for a year, the amendment 

 was put first and carried. 



After a vote of thanks to the Chairman the Meeting was 

 adjourned. 



XXIV. — Nutices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 384.] 



56. Allen on ' Pennant's Indian Zoology.' 



[Pennant's Indian Zoology. By J, A. Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. 

 vol. xxiv. pp. 111-116 (1908).] 



Dr. Allen has found in the library of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences (now on deposit at the American 

 Museum of Natural History) a copy of the rare first edition 

 of Pennant's 'Indian Zoology ' (1769), and gives us a com- 

 plete account of the various editions of this and the allied 

 work, Forster's ' Indische Zoologie' (1781), which will be 

 acceptable to those who study nomenclature. It has an 

 important bearing, we are told, on the names of a number 

 of species which ''^ here for the fir^t time received technical 

 designations." There is also a copy of this book in tlie 

 British Museum, concerning which the late Professor Newton 

 gave much information in 1879 (' Stray Feathers/ viii. 

 p. 414). The main point seems to be that, as shown by 

 Dr. Allen [op. cit. p. 114), many of the names usually 

 accredited to Forster (1783) were really first published by 

 Pennant (1769). It should also be noted that the generic 



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