506 PENNANT'S INDIAN ZOOLOGY.. 



Male. — Length, 8-12; expanse, 20-62; tail, 3*12; wing, 

 6*12 ; bill at front, -62 ; bill from gape, "81. 



Irides brilliant yellow; toes olivaceous grey ; bill horny. 



75 ter. — Scops indicus, Gm. 



Shot a very fine female on the 23rd December 1878, in a 

 young babool grove near Hyderabad. 



Length, 8*75 ; expanse, 22\L2 ; tail, 35 ; wing, 6-62 ; bill at 

 front, '87 ; bill from gape, -9. 



Irides golden yellow ; feet plumbeous grey ; bill dark horny, 

 darkest at tip. 



Jjennant'jj pMan giwlogg. 



Some time ago (Vol. V., 135) I pointed out that Jerdon's 

 Scops griseus, (malabaricus, of Sharpe) was identical with 

 Scops bakkamuna, of Forster, and this again with Striae indica 

 of Gmelin. As at that time I had only Forster's edition of 

 1795, I concluded that Gmelin's name of 1788 had precedence ; 

 but I find that Forster's first edition was published in 1781, 

 so that necessarily Forster' s name has precedence. 



But then other questions, which I am unable to solve, arise. 



In 1769, Thomas Pennant, Joseph (afterwards Sir Joseph) 

 Banks, and John Gideon Loten (a Governor in Ceylon) 

 commenced a work which they entitled Indian Zoology. 



Pennant undertook the descriptive part, Loten furnishing the 

 drawino-s from which the engravings were taken, and all sharing 

 the expense. Only twelve plates were engraved and publish- 

 ed in that year, and then the further prosecution of the work was 

 abandoned. 



Later, these twelve plates and three others, engraved at 

 Pennant's expense, but not as yet published in England, were 

 presented to Forster, and in 1781 he brought out at Halle, in 

 Saxony, his Indische Zoologie, which consisted, first, of an Essay 

 by himself on India, its boundaries, climate, soil and sea ; then 

 of Pennant's plates and descriptions ; and, lastly, of a catalogue 

 of the Fauna of India as then known, Forster bestowing 

 scientific appellations on those species included in this Faunula 

 Indica, as he called it, which he took from Edwardes and others, 

 who did not use any scientific names. 



In 1791 (the preface bears this year, the title page 1790;, 

 a new edition of Pennant's Indian Zoology was published. This 

 consisted of a translation of Forster's Essay, of Pennant's 16 

 plates (Pennant himself only accounts for 15 as above,) and 



