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fulicaria is Edwards's Red Coot-footed Tringa, pi. 142, and 

 that alone, for it does not appear that Linnaeus had seen the 

 bird. The circumstance of the change of the generic appellation 

 can in nowise affect the specific name; the present improved 

 state of the science requires the former, justice demands that 

 the latter should be preserved. In this work I have preserved 

 it; and I flatter myself that this humble attempt to vindicate the 

 rights of Linaeus, will be approved by all those who love those 

 sciences, of which he was so illustrious a promoter.* 



editors: Gmelin, whose thirteenth edition of the Systema Naturae has in- 

 volved the whole science in almost inextricable confusion, and Turton, 

 whose English translation of Gmelin is a disgrace to science and letters. 

 All writers on Zoology and Botany should possess Linnaeus's tenth and 

 twelfth editions; they will be found to be of indispensible use in tracing 

 synonymes, and fixing nomenclature. 



* From Mr. Ord's supplementary Volume. 



