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Tanygnathus, Palceornis, Polytelis, Spathopterus, Ptistes, 

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 Plntycercus, Porphyrocephalus , Barnardius, Psepholus, and 

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138. Sherborn's ' Index Animalium.' 



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This is not a specially ornithological book, but, when 

 complete, will be very useful to workers in every branch of 

 zoology ; it is, in fact, a dictionary of the names of all 

 animals whether generic or specific. Darwin was so con- 

 vinced of the necessity of such a work for botanists, that he 

 left a sum of money to be employed in compiling what is 

 now known as the ' Index Kewensis/ which contains an 

 alphabetical list of the names of plants and references 

 to their descriptions. Mr. Sherborn proposes to bestow 

 the same favour on his brother zoologists, and the present 

 volume is the first instalment. The f Index Zoologicus' 

 will contain a complete list of all the generic and specific 

 names applied to animals since 1758, when Linnaeus 

 inaugurated the binomial system, with dates and references. 

 Acting under the advice of a Committee of the British 

 Association, Mr. Sherborn has divided his work into three 

 portions. The first of these, now published by the Cam- 

 bridge University Press, contains all the names proposed by 

 zoologists from January 1st, 1758, to the end of December, 

 1800, and will be found most useful and accurate so far 

 as it goes. The energetic author is now hard at work 

 on the second division, which will contain the names 

 given during the first half of the last century, to Avhich 



