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eight species, thirty-five of which were supposed to be additional to the 

 tenth edition of the Systema Naturae. Although his name does not 

 appear in connection with it, the ' Adumbratiuncula ' was written by 

 Peter Simon Pallas, as he tells us in his Zoografkia Rosso-Asiatica (II, 

 p. 199). a statement long anticipated by Linnaeus in the 1766 edition of 

 the Systema Naturae, when ' Pallas, adumbr.' is quoted in the synonymy 

 of several species." Although anonymous, the authorship of the 'Adum- 

 bratiuncula' is thus not in doubt, nor is this the first time it has been 

 cited as Pallas's work. 



For 16 of these species Pallas's names appear to have priority, while 4 

 are not positively identified, and of the remainder 16 have earlier names, 

 and two are synonyms of other species here described. The only North 

 American species affected is the Sanderling, which should apparently be 

 called Calidris alba (= Trytiga alba Pallas, 1764= Tringa are?iaria 

 Linnaeus, 1766. — J. A. A. 



Harvie-Brown and Macpherson's ' A Fauna of the Northwest High- 

 lands and Skye.' 1 — This is the ninth volume, in order of publication, of 

 ' The Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland,' by J. A. Harvie-Brown and Thomas 

 E. Buckley, some of which have been noticed in previous volumes of 

 'The Auk.' 2 The first hundred pages are chiefly historical and topo- 

 graphical; mammals occupy forty-eight pages, birds something over 

 three hundred, the reptiles and amphibia about three, and there are about 

 ten pages of supplemental matter, and the Index. Like all the volumes 

 of this series, it is beautifully printed and illustrated, the illustrations 

 including a number of maps, many beautiful full-page plates from pho- 

 tographs, principally of scenery and the breeding places of birds, but they 

 include also several portraits of prominent Scotch naturalists, now 

 deceased, and numerous text cuts, of scenic or historic interest. There 

 are biographical sketches of two of Mr. Harvie-Brown's colleagues, — Mr. 

 Thomas E. Buckley and Rev. H. A. Macpherson, — recently deceased, the 

 former having been joint author with Mr. Harvie-Brown of ' The Verte- 

 brate Fauna of Scotland ' series, while the latter was co-author of the 

 volume here under notice, and also author of 'A History of Fowling,' 

 noticed in 'The Auk' for January, 1900 (XVII, pp. 85, 86), and of other 

 standard works. Both are well known authorities on the natural history 

 of Scotland and the north of England. 



The present volume, like its predecessors, shows exhaustive research 

 and patient, conscientious labor, and cannot fail to be of great local inter- 



1 A Fauna of the Northwest Highlands and Skye. By J. A. Harvie-Brown 

 and Rev. H. A. Macpherson. Edinburgh : David Douglas. 1904. Sm. 4to, 

 pp. i-civ -f- 1-378, maps, numerous plates and text illustrations from photo- 

 graphs. Price 30s. 



2 See e.g., ' A Fauna of the Moray Basin, Auk, XIII, 1896, pp. 351, 352. 



