4 I Mr. .J. Whitehead on the 



Mr. Bowdler Sharpe and add liis reply \ ''It. ii certainly 

 unfortunate that both you and Dr. Platen collected at 

 the sann time in Palawan, and that the nan en l»y 



\>r. Blasius and myself ihould clash, I do not think, 

 however, that the priority of titlei claimed by Dr. Bla im 

 can be maintained for a moment. I might have described 

 your collection many weel before I <li<l puiili Ii the paper, 

 but I W6 glad i" accept the offer of the Editors of ' The 

 11,1 ' to illustrate it with two plates. I therefore kept it. 

 bacli fill the April number of that Journal, and I con- 

 tented myself wii.h nutting :i notice in 'Nature' to the 

 effect that I had described your collection, and that the 

 account would appear in April, Dr. Bis iui appeari to have 

 publii bed his descriptions <>(* the new i pedes in tin- Laudable 

 di ire to procure cr« 'lif. for liis countryman, l)r, Platen ; and 

 if these description had appeared in ' Ornii ' in anything like 

 reasonable time, we might have had some difficulty in deter- 

 mining the qu( tion of priority, I find, however, that the 

 April number of ' Ornis,' with l>r. Blasius's paper in it, was 

 delivered in Londou in the middle of June, and allowing 

 liberally for delay in receiving the number, there can l><; 

 little doubt that 'The Ibis' appeared long before it. As to 

 the preliminary descriptions in a Brunswick newspaper, 

 on which Dr, Blasius bases bis priority of names, I should 

 never think of allowing such ;i title to take precedence of 

 one published in b regular manner, and I think you are 

 quite right in adopting all the names whicb I gav< to your 

 speci( 



I J 8( OPS EVBRBTTI, I , 



I find that Mr, Sharpe has not much faith in his Scops 

 fuliainoicif wlndi in all probability is only the ymi^ of & 

 everettii 



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Met with by Dr. Platen only. 



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