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to the names he has adopted, on account of their newness. 

 Having heard many other persons express the same difficulty, 

 I thought a Catalogue of Birds with the two sets of names 

 put together, side by side, might be acceptable to many 

 readers ... In the following Catalogue, the large capitals will 

 designate the Linnean name according to the arrangement 

 now adopted. The small Roman letter will mark the names 

 of the old writers brought to light again by Dr. Leach. Where 

 I have altered them, I have put a ? (In those few instances 

 where he has appeared to me to have mistaken the old name, 

 I have ventured to substitute one which I believe to belong 

 anciently to the bird.) " 



As aforesaid, this Catalogue is fairly well known, but this 

 note deals with another and liitherto overlooked essay b}^ 

 Thomas Forster which may have some interest to nomen- 

 claturists. In 1827 appeared " The Pocket Encyclopaedia 

 of Natural Phenomena .... compiled principally from the 

 Manuscripts and MS. Journals of the late T. F. Forster, Esq., 

 F.L.S., etc. By T. Forster." Five parts are included, as 

 f oUows : Part i. , Prognostics of the Weather ; Part n. , 

 Indications of the Seasons ; Part iii., Signs of the Seasons ; 

 Part IV., The Rustic Calendar; and Part v., A Synoptical 

 Catalogue of the Flora Spectabilis. As Supplementary 

 additions to Part v., first is added : "A Correct Catalogue of 

 the Ornithologia Europsea, or Birds of Europe ; compiled 

 from the best authorities, and intended to serve as a table of 

 reference to the birds alluded to in the other parts of tliis 

 work, as well as being a general Index to the Birds of Europe, 

 with the Latin, Enghsh, and French names of each genus and 

 species. The Arabic figures, when prefixed to the names, 

 refer to the Synoptical Catalogue of the Birds of Britain, 

 which the author compiled some years ago, and wliicli was 

 pubhshed by Messrs. Nichols and Son in 1817. This reference 

 is used where identification of the species by different synonyms 

 becomes necessary." 



This Catalogue shows the British Birds in italics and in 

 many cases the species name is the one cited as the Linnean 

 one in the Synoptical Catalogue, and is not in the novel one 



