320 Count T. Salvadori — Bonaparte' s 



XXXII. — On the Dates of Publication of Bonaparte' s ' Icono- 

 grafia della Fauna Italica,' By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 



It appears that the exact dates of publication of the different 

 species of vertebrated animals described and figured in Bona- 

 parte's ' Iconografia della Fauna Italica ' are not generally 

 known. For this reason I have thought that it might be 

 useful to ornithologists to give, in the pages of ' The Ibis/ a 

 chronological list of the birds described and figured by Bona- 

 parte in that work*. 



• Even in the most receut works, such as those of Dresser, Seebohm, and 

 Sharpe, as also in * The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North- 

 American Birds,' the dates accompanying the quotations from Bona- 

 perte's work are constantly wroug' or uncertain. Thus, in the American 

 work mentioned above, the genus Otocorys, Bp., is quoted as estabhshed 

 in the ' Introduzioue alia Fauna Italica,' with the date 1839. Leaving 

 aside for the present that the genus Otocoris (sic) was established in 

 another work of Bonaparte's, I must state that the " Introduzioue " to the 

 Birds of Bonaparte's work was certainly not published in 1839, as I shall 

 show further on. Mr. Sharpe, in the quite recent 12th volume of the 

 ' Catalogue of Birds,' quotes the plate 34, Ye])vesent'mg U/nben'za pilustris, 

 with the date 1832, instead of 1834 ; the plate 38, representing Chlorospiza 

 incerfa, with the date 1832, instead of 1839; the plates 35, 36, 37, repre- 

 senting respectively JErythrospiza githaginea, Emheriza durazzi, and Frin- 

 gilla serinus, with the indeterminate dates 1832-1841. With the same 

 indeterminate dates is quoted by Mr. Sharpe the genus Erythrospiza, Bp., 

 which, by the way, was established by Bonaparte in a much earlier work 

 (' Sulla seconda edizione del Begno Animale del Barone Cuvier, Osser- 

 vazioni,' p. 80, 1830). Moreover it is equivalent to Carpodacus, Kaup 

 (1829) ; so that Erythrospiza, Bp., cannot be used, as it has been done by 

 Mr. Sharpe, as equivalent and in preference to Bucanetes, Cab. 



Again, Mr. Seebohm, both in vol. v. of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' and 

 in the very recent ' Geographical Distribution of the Charadriidce,^ is not 

 very particular in the dates in quoting Bonaparte's work. In fact, in his 

 last book, in the synonymy of Vanellus greyariiis, p. 212, Mr. Seebohm 

 quotes Chettusla yregaria, Bp., Faun. Ital. Ucc, In trod. p. 12, with the 

 date 1832, which is certainly wroug, as that is six years earlier than the 

 tirst capture of that species in Italy, which happened in 1838 ; in which 

 year also Bonaparte's article concerning that species was published. In 

 Mr. Seebohm's work the date of Bonaparte's quotation ought to have 

 been 1841, as is rightly stated in the synonymy of the genus Vanellus, 

 given in the same work, p. 205. 



