

PREFACE. 



This ludex Tvas originally prepared^ imder Mr. Sclater's 

 directiouS; at the Office of the Zoological Society of London 

 in Hanover Square, by ]\Ir. F. H. Waterbouse, the Librarian 

 of tlie Society, and bis assistants. A ]\IS. copy of it vras 

 subse(]uent]y presented by ISlr. Sclater to the Library of the 

 Bird-room in the British Museum. This Index having been 

 found to be of great assistance in both the above-mentioned 

 Libraries to those who require to make frequent references 

 to the ' Catalogue of Birds/ it -was resolved by the Com- 

 mittee of the British Ornithologists' Club to print it as an 

 extra volume of the ' Bulletin/ of vrhich it will accordingly 

 form Volume IX. 



Our best thanks are due to Mr. Waterhouse and his 

 assistants for the care they have taken in the compilation 

 and correction of this Index, Nvhich ^re trust may prove 

 useful to all working ornithologists. 



The following Latin lines were composed by a Member 

 of the B.O.C. to commemorate the names of the eleven 

 Authors of the ' Catalogue of Birds' : — 



De CaTAJLOGI AviVM MaGXI ScEIPTOEIBUS UXIiECIM. 



S/iarpius incepit, scripsitque volumina multa ; 



Scebohvnis sequitur, prou]]itus ad auxilium. 

 Teutonicus, zelo pleuus, veuit inde Gadovus, 



Sulvinu-sciM^ Louam praibet amicus opeiu. 

 Jam Sclaterus adest. tria loi:ga volumina complens, 



Aiueric-auarum notus amans avium. 

 Expers Haryittus uunc Picos ordiuat omnes, 



Hartertnaci^ne sagax Cyp.^elidas uumerat. 

 Muhum etiam pensa; Shellcyi profuit ardor, 



Multunj iSavndersi mcus opej'osa dedit. 

 Clarus ab Italia jam Sulvadorius adstat, 



Et taudem Grantus fine corouat opus. 



E. B. S. 



Manh loth. IbPO. 



