66 ON THE CATALOGUE OF VROEG’S COLLECTION, 
NOTE XIV. 
ON THE CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF BIRDS 
BROUGHT TOGETHER BY A. VROEG 
BY 
Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 
In the library of the Royal Zoological Society » Natura 
Artis Magistra” at Amsterdam, there is a copy of the des- 
criptive catalogue of the collection of birds etc. made by 
Mr. A. Vroeg and sold at the Hague in the year 1764. 
This is one of the rarest prints, besides this only one 
copy, preserved in the library of the Linnean Society of 
London, is known. The attention of Zoologists to this 
Catalogue has been drawn by Mr. C. D. Sherborn, when 
writing his Index Animalium, and the new names in the 
catalogue were attributed by Mr. Sherborn in his Index to 
A. Vroeg; but afterwards he was informed by Dr. C. W. 
Richmond, that P. S. Pallas was the author of the new 
names in the »adumbratiunculae” at the end of the cata- 
logue (cf. Smithsonian Mise. Coll. XLVII, 1905, p. 332). 
I had the opportunity, by kind permission of Dr. C. 
Kerbert, Director of the Zoological Society of Amsterdam, 
to examine the copy in possession of that Society, for 
which I tender my sincere thanks to that gentleman. 
This copy is in fine condition; the contents are as follows: 
First page : the Dutch title, reprinted on the next page. 
Second page : blank. 
Pages 11—vi11: Voorreeden (preface in Dutch, not signed). 
Page 1x : the French title. 
Tenth page : blank. 
Pages xI—xvi: Preface (the preface translated in French). 
Pages 1—49 : the true catalogue, list of items. 
Pages 1—7 : the »adumbratiunculae”’. 
Notes from the Lieyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
