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NOTES OF INTEREST. 



By Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredalb. 



LICHTENSTEIN'S SALE CATALOGUES. 



In connection with the name Alisterus scajndaris (Lichtenstein) 

 Mathews, in the Birds of Austraha, has recorded data provided 

 by C. W. Richmond in connection with price Usts issued by the 

 Berhn Museum concerning their duphcates. While it would 

 have been an easy matter to counsel their rejection, usage has 

 continually accepted the names proposed in two of them, more 

 accessible and with fuller information than the others, so that 

 no consistent plea can be urged against those which have not 

 achieved familiarity. The tracts, issued as separates between 

 1816-1823, are so rare that we have not yet been able to sees 

 copies of them, but we here note that Lists (perhaps identical) 

 occur in that accessible Journal, Oken's Isis. They appear, 

 however, to have been overlooked, as they appeared in the 

 supplementary numbers and in the Litterarischer Anzeiger. 

 The first one appears in the Isis 1818 Littr. Anz., col. 1103 et 

 seq., the title reading : " Verzeichniss von ausgestopften Sauge- 

 thieren und Vogeln, welche aus 12ten October 1818 u. folg. 

 Tage im. zoologischen Museum der Konigl. Universitat zu 

 Berlin dem Mesitbietenden offentlich verkauft werden sollen." 

 The prehminary notice is signed Lichtenstein^ and the following 

 list of names have no authorities cited, so that, if any are new, 

 they are undoubtedly nomina nuda. In the following year, 

 as No. 20 of the Isis 1819 Litt. Anz., there is a " Preis-Ver- 

 zeichnisse der Saugethier- und Vogel-Doubletten des Zoolo- 

 gischen Museums der Universitat zu Berhn " again signed by 

 Lichtenstein. The pages are numbered 77-80, and all the 

 names are pure nomina nuda, though a lot of them are followed 

 by " N " indicating they are new names, but many appear 

 to be only new combinations. The succeeding " No. 21 " 

 continues and completes that list, but it is followed by a 

 " Preis- Verzeichniss der noch vorrathigen-Doubletten " on 



