1880.] 



ON SMITH S ZOOLOGY OF SOTITH AFRICA. 



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such organ exists at all, or whether the bird only has the power of 

 greatly distending the integuments lining the trachea at the season 

 of amativeness, and of so effecting the appearance exhibited when 



"showing off." 



8. On the Dates of Publication of the Parts of Sir Andrew 

 Smith's ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.' 

 By F. H, Waterhouse, A.L.S., Librarian to the 

 Society. 



[Received June 12, 1880.] 



In the 'Ibis' for 1868, p. 499, the late Mr, G. R. Crotch pub- 

 lished the dates of the issue of the various livraisons of Temminck and 

 Laugier's ' Nouveau Itecueil de Planches coloriees d'Oiseaux,' which 

 many zoologists have no doubt found of great use when working at 

 synonymy. As there are many other zoological works which have 

 appeared in parts occupying some years in completion, and of which 

 copies in the original wrappers are becoming very scarce, I have 

 thought it might be desirable to record the exact dates of the issue 

 of the parts of one of which my father has possession, namely Sir 

 Andrew Smith's ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.' 



As the copy here alluded to did not contain plates xviii. and 

 xxxviii. (^Mammalia), I have examined three or four other copies ; 

 and as neither of these plates are to be found in any of these, I pre- ' 

 sume they do not exist. 



There are one or two other peculiarities perhaps worth calling at- 

 tention to — namely, that plate xxxi. (Reptilia) was published after 

 plate Ixix., and plate xix. {Pisces) after plate xxvi. 





