﻿THE NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS IN VRCEG'S 

 CATALOGUE, 1764 



By C. DAVIES SHERBORN 



Yroeg's Catalogue is so rare that the only copy I have met with 

 is preserved among Linnaeus' collection of books in the library of the 

 Linnean Society of London. The new species of birds (there are 

 no other new species) are collected at the end of the Catalogue in a 

 separately-paged " Adumbratiuncula," and as these new species are 

 properly diagnosed, the Linnean Society has kindly consented to a 

 reprinting of the pages. The reprint follows the original, line for 

 line, the only addition being the localities, which have been added 

 from the entries in the Catalogue to which the numbers prefixed to 

 each item refer. 



There is no clue in the Catalogue to the author of the specific 

 names, and in my Index Animalium they were attributed to the 

 owner of the collection, but I am informed by Dr. C. W. Richmond 

 that P. S. Pallas was the real author. [A reference to Pallas' 

 Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica (11, p. 199, under Trynga tridactyla) 

 proves this to have been the case. That Linnaeus knew Pallas was 

 responsible for the names and descriptions in Yroeg's Catalogue is 

 evidenced by his occasional citation of "Pallas, aduiubr.," etc., in the 

 twelfth edition of his Sy sterna Natures, 1766, and without doubt 

 Linnaeus was indebted to Pallas for his copy of the Catalogue. 

 Pallas was born September 22, 1741, and consequently was twenty- 

 three years of age at the time of this performance. C. W. R.] 



Catalogue | raisonne, | D'une Collection superieurement belle | D'Oi- 

 seaux, J Tant exotiques qu'Europe'ens, | de | Ouadrupedes | et | D'ln- 

 sectes. I Empailles, & arranges avec beaucoup d' art en situa- | tions 

 & attitudes extremement naturelles, & ga- | rantis de la corruption 

 d'une fagon particuliere. | Le tout rassemble & arrange, pendant une 

 longue suite | d'annees, avec beaucoup de peines & a grand fraix, | 

 par I A. VROEG. | Collection qu'on offre aux Amateurs entiere & 

 a I un prix raisonnable, jusqu'au 22 Septembre de [ cette annee ; 

 apres l'Echeance duquel ter- | me, elle sera vendue aux plus offrands, 

 I le 6 Octobre 17^4. a la Have, | Dans la Maison de Mr Coster, au 

 coin du Veene- | straat sur le petit Marche aux Herbes, | par | Pierre 



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