SECOND APPENDIX. 
word “ 4strelata,’’? as a majority of my re- 
spected colleagues on the Committee insist 
upon doing, for no better reason than that 
Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte did not 
know how Gstrelata ought to be spelled. 
Such deference to authority as this is in 
my judgment a blot on our “Canons of 
Nomenclature,’’ which justly exposes us to 
rebuke from ‘‘ mouths of wisest censure.’’ 
Many persons who do not know how to spell 
very well become successful authors through 
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the friendly attentions of their compositors 
and proof-readers ; and why should our Com- 
mittee not be grateful for such assistance 
in the pangs and throes of orthographic 
delivery ? 
No. 865, p. 812. Synthliborhamphus wumizu- 
sume is considered by the Committee not 
North American, and consequently elimina- 
ated. (On this question, still open, see 
Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, p. 
524.) 
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