106 Zoological Nomenclature. 
J. Generic names seh JSrom other gener —These are in some degree 
open to the same imputation as ese 7 Ee ede: but as they often serve 
to reece the — on of a genus as inter: saihdian to, or allied with, two other 
gen may occasionally he used with advantage. Care must A — 
not is soph such compound words as st oe too — a and not to cor- 
rupt them in trying to render them short The — llopavo, Ten ao- 
gallus, — are an se of vita “appropriate < mer mpoun 
g: c names derived from —So long as chaas nddiaoately 
dauineactioun are used with Seaiibivians n, oe = restricted to persons of emi- 
nence as scientific zodlogists, they may be employed with propriety in cases 
where expressive or characteristic words are not to be found. hee e fully 
concur with those who censure the practice of naming species after persons 
of no scientific reputation, as curiosity dealers (e. g. ‘Can minis Boissoneauti), 
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eneric names derived from persons.—W ords of this class have been ex- 
tensively used in botany, and therefore it would have been well to have 
exclude 1 fe i 
technica by which the name of a genus would at once tell us to which of the 
kingdoms of gue it cloned. Some persona] generic names have, how- 
ever, sip into zodlogy, a s Cuvi vieria, Mulleria, Ros ssid, Lessonia, &c., but they 
are rare i comparison with those of baa; ’and it is perhaps desirable not 
to add “id thet num 
3 of harsh wi inelegant —— .—These words are pres: to 
the vie either f from sid ae of form, as Huhua, Yuhina, Cravirer, E. 
scholizi, or too grea agewth as chirostrongylostinus, Opetio: orhych, 
brachypodioides, Thecodontosaurus. It is needless to enlarge on rs adva 
age of consulting euphony in the construction of our language. a gen - 
ral rule it — be recommended to avoid introducing words v2 cane than 
k. Ancient names of animals applied in a wrong ne oes —It has been cus- 
tomary in numerous cases to apply the names of animals found in classic 
authors at random ve — genera or species which en wholly unknown to 
desirable, for “in framing s ese je the appropriation of old words is 
preferable to the ee of ne 
_ 1. Adjective "The of genera are in all c 
ly substantiv lier aid hee pees jective vad? cannot be copheyed for them 
without doing violence to grammar. The generic names Hians, Crinige’; 
, Nitidula, &c., are laninpies of this inco 
m. Sarge Sere mes.—-Compoun d words, whos a parts are taken 
from tw t languages are great deformities in nomenclature, and 
pared so shoud be especially y guarded not to introduce any more such terms 
into zodlogy, which furnishes too many examples of themalready. We have 
them bere foe of Greek and Latin, as Dendrofalco, Gymnocorvus, Mono- 
culus vigaster ; and French, a8 Soromaralciuns Jaca- 
merops ; and Greek and ad Englieh;-as Bullockoides, we 
* Whewell, Phil. Ind. Sc., vol. i, p. lxvii; Nov. Org. Ren. iv, iii. 
+ Generic names in the genitive should also be included. See note i 103.—V- 
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