NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE 



In idenlifying the zoological specics dcscribcd in this volume 

 I am indehtid for aid to mi/ fricnd and collcague Mr. J. T. 

 Sa^inders, who has gone through the xvhole and given me the 

 modern equivalents of the Latin names ; although he warns me 

 that in a good many cases the identijication is doublful. 



There are consequently some discrepancies between Ihe nomen- 

 clature in the translation here and tkat used in Book 1, Ihe 

 Table of Contents. Pliny presumably compiled it afler com- 

 pleling the rest of the work ; biit as cdiiorial cxigencies precluded 

 the postponement of Volume I of Ihis translalion till the olhers 

 ivere finished, I had lo be conlent, for Book 1, ivilh the renderings 

 given in Lewis and Short or in Bostock and Riley's translation. 



H. R. 



