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  Mr. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Dresser 
  on 
  the 
  Synonymy 
  

  

  de 
  PAlgerie/ 
  dont 
  il 
  n'a 
  paru, 
  pour 
  rornithologie^ 
  que 
  quinze 
  

   plancheSj 
  sans 
  aucun 
  texte, 
  parait 
  raalheureusement 
  ne 
  pas 
  

   devoir 
  se 
  continuer." 
  This 
  shows 
  clearly 
  that 
  the 
  plate 
  

   of 
  this 
  Bunting, 
  but 
  not 
  the 
  letterpress, 
  had 
  been 
  issued 
  

   some 
  time 
  previous 
  to 
  1855, 
  and 
  therefore 
  it 
  became 
  neces- 
  

   sary 
  to 
  ascertain 
  the 
  date 
  when 
  this 
  plate 
  was 
  published. 
  

   For 
  this 
  purpose 
  I 
  commenced 
  a 
  systematic 
  search 
  amongst 
  

   the 
  French 
  booksellers' 
  trade-catalogues, 
  and 
  notices 
  of 
  

   works 
  published, 
  between 
  1848 
  (when 
  the 
  first 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   Nat. 
  Hist, 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Expl. 
  scient. 
  de 
  FAJgerie 
  ' 
  was 
  issued) 
  and 
  

   1855, 
  without 
  any 
  result 
  beyond 
  ascertaining 
  that 
  the 
  first 
  

   instalment 
  of 
  the 
  Vertebrates 
  (" 
  Reptiles 
  et 
  Poissons,"" 
  par 
  

   A. 
  Guichenot) 
  was 
  issued, 
  in 
  one 
  fasciculus, 
  in 
  1850. 
  My 
  

   next 
  step 
  was 
  to 
  hunt 
  amongst 
  the 
  libraries, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  

   ascertain 
  if 
  any 
  copy 
  of 
  this 
  fasciculus 
  existed 
  with 
  the 
  

   original 
  covers. 
  The 
  result 
  was 
  that 
  I 
  fortunately 
  dis- 
  

   covered 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  this 
  fasciculus, 
  or 
  volume, 
  at 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum, 
  bound 
  in 
  the 
  original 
  paper 
  cover 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  

   issued. 
  I 
  thus 
  ascertained 
  that 
  this 
  fasciculus 
  contained 
  the 
  

   letterpress 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Reptiles 
  et 
  Poissons," 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  

   whole 
  of 
  the 
  plates 
  of 
  Vertebrates, 
  Mammals, 
  Birds, 
  Reptiles, 
  

   and 
  Fishes, 
  and 
  was 
  dated 
  on 
  the 
  cover 
  1850. 
  Thus 
  the 
  

   synonymy 
  of 
  the 
  Bunting 
  in 
  question 
  will 
  stand 
  as 
  follow^s 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Ember'iza 
  saliari, 
  Levaillant, 
  jr., 
  Exploration 
  scientifique 
  

   de 
  I'Algerie, 
  Atlas, 
  Oiseaux, 
  pi. 
  ix. 
  bis, 
  fig. 
  2 
  (1850). 
  

  

  " 
  Emberiza 
  sahari, 
  Levaill., 
  jr.," 
  Malherbe, 
  Faune 
  Orn. 
  

   de 
  I'Algerie, 
  in 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  d'Hist. 
  Nat. 
  de 
  la 
  Moselle, 
  

   No. 
  7, 
  p. 
  26, 
  sep. 
  cop. 
  p. 
  21 
  (1855). 
  

  

  " 
  FringiUaria 
  Sahara 
  (Levaill. 
  jr.)," 
  Bp. 
  Cat. 
  des 
  Ois. 
  

   d'Eur. 
  (Parzudaki), 
  p. 
  18 
  (1856). 
  

  

  " 
  FringiUaria 
  sahari, 
  Levaill. 
  jr.," 
  Loche, 
  Cat. 
  des 
  Mamm. 
  

   et 
  Ois. 
  observes 
  en 
  Algerie, 
  &c., 
  p. 
  61 
  (1858). 
  

  

  '' 
  FringiUaria 
  sahari, 
  Bp.," 
  Cat. 
  des 
  Produits 
  de 
  I'Algerie, 
  

   p. 
  85 
  (1858). 
  

  

  Emberiza 
  saharce, 
  Tristram, 
  Ibis, 
  1859, 
  p. 
  34. 
  

  

  *' 
  FringiUaria 
  saharce, 
  Bp.," 
  Tristram, 
  Ibis, 
  1859, 
  j). 
  295. 
  

  

  FringiUaria 
  Sahara, 
  Loche, 
  Expl. 
  scient. 
  de 
  I'Alg., 
  Hist. 
  

   Nat. 
  des 
  Ois. 
  i. 
  p. 
  182 
  (1867). 
  

  

  