IV 



PREFACE. 



hoc sublevarem illos, qui nova haec Individua LINNAEANO NATURAE SYSTEMATI 

 addere vellenl. 



But not content herewith he has treated in the same way the animals described by Sonnerat 

 in his 'Voyage aux Indes et a la Chine', and this without indicating in all cases to which of the 

 two works reference is made. Of the 107 species of Birds named, 75 belong to the former work 

 and 32 to the latter, and to avoid confusion it may be well here to state that the original descrip- 

 tions of Nos. 9 — 11, 16, 17, 31, 32, 42, 43, 53, 61 — 66, 79, 84 — 90, 99—102 and 111 — 114 will be 

 found in the second volume of the 'Voyage aux Indes et a la Chine', all the rest pertaining to the 

 older 'Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinde'. 



It may further be convenient to supply or rectify the references omitted or wrongly given, as 

 follows : — 



No. 12 add "p. 55. Tab. 25." 



17 „ "p. 188. Tab. 107." 



18 omit " Ibidem". 



19 for "Tab. 47" read " Tab. 42". 

 28 „ "priore 25" „ "priore 27". 

 31 „ *Tai. II?» „ "Tab. 120", but 



plate is wrongly numbered "121 ". 

 34 add "p. 54. Tab. 24." 

 38 for "p. i5o"read"p. 157". 



No. 67 for " China" read "-Insula Luzon". 

 „ 68 „ "Tab. 30. C" read "Tab. 30. D ". 

 „ 75 before "51" insert " TabP 

 „ 76 add "p. 90. Tab. 52." 

 „ 7« „ "P- 85. Tab. 48." 

 the „ 79 for "p. 165" read "p. 164". 

 „ 80 „ "p. 8i" „ "p.82". 

 „ 84 insert "p. 173." 

 „ 85 add also "p. 160. Tab. 95." 

 „ 94 the description shews that the reference 



should be "p. 169. Tab. 102." 

 „ 97 add "p. 169. Tab. 103." which the descrip- 



tion shews should be the reference. 

 „ 102 for "p. 264" read "p. 204". 

 „ 103 „ "p. 107" „ "p. 117». 

 „ 107 omit " Statura Mofaci//ae." 

 „ 113 for "Pag. 116. Tab. 208. f. 1." read "Pag. 



206. Tab. 115." 



In Nos. 61 and. 62 Scopoli correctly quotes from Sonnerat the "f. 2" and "f. 1" but on 

 the lattei^s plate these numbers seem to have been by error interchanged. So also in Nos. 63 and 

 64, the reference to the plate is right, but it has been wrongly lettered "61" instead of "117". Of 

 the birds figured in the ' Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinde ', five do not receive names. These are 



Le Gobe-mouche a gorge jaune de Plsle de Lugou, p. 57, pl. 26, fig. 2. 



Le Pttican brun de Ilsle de Lucott, p. 91, pl, 53. 



Le Pelican rose de Vlsle de Luqon, p. 91, pl. 54, 



Le Goura de la nouvelle Guinee, p. 169, pl. 104. 



Le Lori de Gilolo, p. 177, pl. 112. 



Of those figured in the ' Voyage aux Indes et a la Chine ' all are fully noticed, except the sub- 

 jects of plates 95 and 122 (wrongly lettered "219"), which are but incidentally mentioned— the 

 former, Poule sauvage des Indes, under No. 85 ; and the latter, Bec-ouvert blanc des Indes, between 

 Nos. 32 and 33. 



The other papers here reprinted need little remark. They have been added merely to complete 

 this collection of pieces ; but, whatever may be thought of the author's Alauda turdina, A. turlit 

 and A. brumalis, it has long since been admitted that his Falco rufus and ' Fringilla alpina are 

 respectively the Falco vespertinus and Fringilla citrinella of Linnjeus— the plates, which it has not 

 seemed worth while to repr^duce, representing them making those identifications certain. 



As before stated the original work is in folio, but in reducing these extracts to quarto size thc 

 greatest care has been taken to present them page for page, line for line, and letter for letter. 



14 December, 1881. • A. N 



