Books on Exhibition at Cambridge. 75 



16. Jacob P. Giraud. A Description of Sixteen new 

 species of North American Birds., described in the 

 Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History. 

 By Jacob P. Giraud Jr. Collected in Texas, 1838. 

 New York, George P. Nesbitt, printer, Tontine Building-, 

 corner of Wall and Water Streets. 1841. (8 plates.) 

 Polio. 



This copy, procured from Paris, contains a few corrections of misprints 

 such as might well have been made by the author himself. The copy in 

 the Library of the Zoological Society, presented by him, is the subject of 

 Mr. Sclater's notes in the ' Proceedings ' for 1855 (pp. 65, 66). Doubt lias 

 been entertained as to the good faith of the author, originating perhaps in 

 the fact that the descriptions of the species were never published in the 

 ' Annals of the New York Lyceum' as stated on the title-page — nor has 

 any explanation of that fact been furnished. (See Coues, 'Birds of the 

 Colorado Valley, 5 Bibliographical Appendix, pp. 630, 631.) 



17. Jean-Baptiste Labat. Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de 



l'Amérique contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, 



Paris : 1722. 6 vols. 1 2mo. 



In volume il. , chapter vin., the author treats " Des différentes espèces 

 de Perroquets des Isles," stating that each island had three kinds of 

 Parrots (1) an "Aras," (2) a "Perroquet" — obviously a Hirysotis, and (3) 

 a "Perrique" — Conurus — and at pages 156, 157 he briefly describes those 

 of Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique. This last is certainly extinct 

 and, moreover, no specimen of it is known to exist in any Museum. 

 Spalowsky, however, in his ' Vierter Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel ' 

 (Wien, 1792) describes and figures the Chrysotis, page 18, Tab. 8, under 

 the name of " Psittacus lencocephalus martinicanus. Der Weisswierbel 

 von Martinika." 



18. Lacepede. Tableau des sous-classes, divisions, sous- 

 divisions, ordres et genres des Oiseaux, par le C eu Lace- 

 pède. [Paris, 1802.] 32mo. 



Fischer de Waldheim's copy, interleaved with MS. notes by him. 



HJ. John Latham. Index Ornithologicus sive Sy sterna 

 Ornitholgiae complectens Avium divisionem in classes 

 ordines genera species ipsarumque varietates adjectis 

 synonymis locis descriptionibus studio et opera Joannis 

 Latham, M.D., R.S., A.S., L.S.S., etc. Editio Altera 

 multo auctior et emendatior in qua dispositae sunt plus 

 quam mille Aves vel novae vel hactenus incognitae. 

 1834. MS. Three volumes. 4to. 



Wholly in the author's handwriting. The flyleaf of Vol. I. is inscribed 

 by him, " These three Volumes are ready for the Press." This second 

 edition of the ' Index Ornithol >gicus ' was never printed. The MS. was 

 for many years in the possession of the late Dr. John Edward Gray — see 

 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror' — Mammalia, p. 1, 

 note. 



