184 Henry Scherren : 



country. Caspar Peucer, born at Bantzen in 1525, became, 

 in 1554, professor of mathematics at Wittenberg. He 

 married a daughter of Melancthon, and was the bosom 

 friend of Luther. The Bird List ascribed to them was not, 

 so far as I can ascertain, published independently, but 

 formed part of a small volume, that went into at least six 

 editions. The title page of the first edition in the British 

 Museum runs thus : — ■ 



VOCABYLA j EEI NTTMMARIAE | pöderum & 

 menfurarum Grseca | Latina, Ebraica quorum intel- | lectus 

 omnibus neceffarius eft | collecta ex Budsei, Iachi- | mi 

 Camerari j & Philippi ] Melanth. | Annotationibus 



Additse funt & Volucrum & Pifcium appellationes 

 collectas, j a Paulo Ebero & Caspar© j Peucero. j Witebergae 

 | 1549. * 



The scope of the book is sufficiently indicated by the title. 

 There is no pagination ; and the make-up consists of title 

 and blank ; the weights and measures, probably the work of 

 Eber and Peucer, 41 pp. ; names of birds 10, of fishes 9, of 

 plants and trees 7, Authors' address to the reader 8, and 

 blank, in all = 78. 



VOLVCRVM | ADPELLATIONES. 



AQuila, aeroç Adler genera aqui | larum Sex 



7rvyapyo<; uel reßpcxfiovoc hinnularia | huius pullwm prius- 

 quam cauda albicet Im | rnusulum, vocant, Romanis 

 auguri- I bus notum. p. 30. 2 



fjAjptfivos quae Neeuia, f£7to(/>óVoc quae ] anataria nXayyos 



7répKvo<;. p. 32. 



/xeXai/ateroç fuluia Xaywcfìóvos. p. 34. 



irepKyOTTTepos, yvrraUro'; & ôpenre- | Xapyos quae Ciconia 



montana. p. 34. 



z Nd pains hare been spared by the author and his friends to make the tran- 

 script verbally correct. He regrets that it cannot claim to be literally so, owing 

 to the difficulty of reproducing the contractions and ligatures of the original 

 text in a modern-faced type. Italic letters in a Latin word represent a contrac- 

 tion in the original. 



2 These figures refer to Mr. Evans's edition of Turner's " Birds," where 

 further information will be found. 



