BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. XVII 



251, pi. xii, fig. 1); Lopliopliorus Sclateri, Jerdon (Ibis, 1870, 147); 

 Lorlculus Sclateri, Wallace (Proe. Zool. Soc, 1802, 33G, pi. xxxviii); 

 Loxigilla noctis Sclateri, Allen (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Y, lOO); 

 Megapicus Sclateri, Malherbe (Picld?e, I, 22, 15(3, 105, pi. viii, fig. 1; 

 pi. XXXV, fig. 8); Micropygia Sclateri, Bonaparte (Compt. Rend., 

 XLIII, 590) Mgiarch as Sclateri, Lawrence (Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., I, 

 357); Myzomehi Sclateri, Forbes (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, 205, pi. xxv, 

 fig. 2); Or nithion Sclateri, BerlepschandTaczanowski (Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1883, 554); Penelope Sclateri, Gray (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1800, 270); Phile- 

 mon Sclateri, Gray (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 1870, 327); Picumnus 

 Sclateri, Taczanowski (Proc Zool. Soc, 1877, 327); Plectropterus 

 Sclateri, Sousa (.Torn. Ac. Sci. Lisb., II, 157); Polioptila Sclateri, 

 Sliarpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, 449); PsittacuUi Sclateri, Gray (List 

 Psittacidse Brit. Mus., 80); Pternistes Sclateri, Bocage (.Torn. Ac. Sci. 

 Lisb., I, 327, pi. vi); SynaUaxis Sclateri, Cabanis (Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1878, 19()); Tanagra Sclateri, Berlepsch (Ibis, 1880, 112); Thripophaga 

 Sclateri, Berlepsch (Ibis, 1883,490, pi. xiii); Tliryothorus Sclateri, 

 Taczanowski (Proc Zool. Soc, 1879, 222); Triccas Sclateri, Cabanis 

 and Heine (Mus. Ilein., II, 51) ; Xipliocolaptes Sclateri, Ridgway (Proc 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 0). 



In conclusion, I quote the brief appreciations of Mr. Sclater written 

 by representative American naturalists whom I have invited to place 

 upon record their judgment as to the value of his services to science. 



Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam, chief of the division of economic orni- 

 thology and mammalogy of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, writes as follows: 



The value of Sclater's contributions to American ornithology can hardly be ovei 

 estimated. What Niittall and Wilson and Audubon and Baird have done for the 

 birds of North America, Schiter has done for those of Central and South America. - 

 There is this difference in the method of treatment — that while the publications of 

 North American ornithologists have been chiefly faunal or geographic, Sclater's 

 have been for the most x'art systematic, dealing with assemblages of species rather 

 than with the ornithology of special areas, though he has made some important 

 faunal contributions also. In the field of zoological geography he early attained 

 distinction, and his primary regions, based on the distribution of birds, have been 

 widely accepted. 



The excellent bibliography of his writings, prepared and published by the United 

 States National Miiseum, is not only a model for this kind of work, but is also a 

 most iTseful addition to the literature of systematic zoology. 



For half a century SL-later has given practically the whole of his time to the 

 study of l)irds and mammals. For nearly forty years he has had charge of the 

 principal zoological publication of the world (the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London), and the [!;reater part of the time has edited the leading orni- 

 thological journal (The Ibis) , so that a large share of the literature of zoology has 

 passed directly under his eye. During the whole of this long period he has been 

 at the head of one of the best zoological gardens and the greatest zoological soci- 

 ety ever established— the Zoological Society of London. Naturally his office came 

 to be the meeting ground of naturalists from all quarters of the globe, and speci 

 mens cf new and rare animals continually poured into his bancs. For these 

 reasons he has been in a position, more than any other man of his time, to keep 

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