4438 _ Tne Zoorocist—May, 1875. 
to a double moult, and of which the plumage in winter is pure 
white; but the T. scoticus only moults once in the year, and the 
plumage is at all times of maroon-red. The summer livery of 
T. Saliceti approaches this colour, but it is easily distinguished 
from L. scoticus by the wings and all the lower parts of the body 
being constantly white. The tail is composed of eighteen feathers, 
and the laterals are always tipped with white.” 
Henry DouBLEDAY. 
Hotices of Hew Books. 
Reprint of Boddaert’s Table des Planches Enluminées d’ Histoire 
Naturelle. Edited by W. B. Tecermeter, F.Z.S. London: 
‘Field’ Office, $46, Strand. 1874. 
Ir is impossible to do better for a work of which, like most other 
ornithologists, I am profoundly ignorant, than to extract the Editor’s 
Preface, so far as it elucidates the object he has in view. 
“M. Boddaert’s exceedingly rare work, of which only a very few copies were 
printed, was published at Utrecht in 1788. Its present value to zoologists 
is due to its applying, for the first time, to very many species, the presently 
received system of scientific nomenclature, and thus fixing, by reason of 
priority, the names of a considerable number of genera and species. 
“ Only two copies are known to exist in the United Kingdom, one in the 
Banksian Library and a second in private hands; but in consequence of its 
great value to systematic zoologists, several incomplete manuscript copies 
have been made for the use of scientific societies and private individuals.” 
This is all Mr. Tegetmeier has to say of the original edition, but 
he adds a recommendation by the Editor of the ‘ Ibis’ of the reprint 
now before us, to the following effect :—“ We have seen proofs of 
the reprint, which is a verbatim and literatim copy of the original, 
every word, line and page being reproduced in facsimile, even to 
the typographical errors of the old edition.” Mr. Tegetmeier further 
adds this polite acknowledgment to the lady who made the tran- 
script from which this edition is printed—“I have to express my 
obligations to Miss Rose Adams for her accurate transcript of the 
original for the press.” 
This graceful and doubtless just tribute to his lady amanuensis 
unfortunately rather detracts from than enhances the value of the 
