PREFACE. 



hoc sublevarcin illos, qui nova haec IndiviJiia LINNAEANO NATURAE SYSTEMATI 

 addcrc vcllcnl. 



But not content herewith he has treated in the same way the animals described by Sonnerat 

 in his 'Voyage aux Indes et k la Chine', and this Avithout indicating in all cases to which of the 

 two works reference is made. Of the 107 species of Birds named, 75 belong to the former work 

 and 32 to the latter, and to avoid confusion it may be well here to state that the original descrip- 

 tions of Nos. 9 — II, 16, 17, 31, 32, 42, 43, 53, 61 — 66, 79, 84 — 90, 99—102 and iii — 114 will be 

 found in the second volume of the 'Voyage aux Indes et k la Chine', all the rest pertaining to the 

 older 'Voyage \ la Nouvelle Guin^e '. 



It may further be convenient to supply or rectify the references omitted or wrongly given, as 

 follows : — 



No. 12 add "p. 55- Tab. 25." 

 ,, 17 „ "p. 188. Tab. 107." 

 ,, 18 omit "Ibidem'"^ 

 „ 19 for "Tab. 47" read "Tab. 42". 

 ,, 28 ,, "priore 25" ,, "priore27". 

 „ 31 „ "Tab. 119" ,, '"Tab- 120", but 



plate is wrongly numbered "121 ". 

 „ 34 add "p. 54. Tab. 24." 

 ., 38 for ''p. J50 read "p. 157 " 



No. 6y {or " C/i///a" read "Insula Lnso/i". 

 „ 68 „ "Tab. 30. C" read " Tab. 30. D ". 

 „ 75 before "51" insert "7"<7i^." 

 1 „ 76 add "p. 90. Tab. 52.'' 

 j „ 7« „ "p. 85. Tab. 48." 

 the , „ 79 for "p. 165" read "p. 164". 

 „ 80 „ ''p. 81" „ "p. 82". 

 ,, 84 insert "p. 173." 

 [ „ 85 add also "p. 160. Tab. 95." 



„ 94 the description shews that the reference 



should be "p. 169. Tab. 102." 

 ,. 97 add "p. 169. Tab. 103." which the descrip- 

 tion shews should be the reference. 

 „ 102 for "p. 264" read "p. 204"- 

 „ 103 „ "p. 107" „ "p. 117". 

 „ 107 omit "Statura J/()/<(t77/(r('." 

 ,, 113 for "Pag. 116. Tab. 208. f. i." read "Pag. 

 206. Tab. 115." 



In Nos. 61 and 62 SCOPOLI correctly quotes from Sonnerat the "f. 2" and "f. i" "but on 

 the latter's plate these numbers seem to have been by error interchanged. So also in Nos. 63 and 

 64, the reference to the plate is right, but it has been wrongly lettered "61" instead of "117''. Of 

 the birds figured in the ' Voyage k la Nouvelle Guinife ', five do not receive names. These are 



Lt- Gobc-inoiichc d. gorge jaiinc dc Hsle dc Lncoii, p. 57, pi, 26, fig. 2, 



Le Pelican brun de I'lslc de Lu{on, p. 91, pi. 53. 



Le Tt'/ican rose de I'Isle de Lii^on, p. 91, pi. 54. 



Ee Goiira de la nouvelle Giiincc, p. 169, pi. 104. 



Ee Lori de Gilolo, p. 177, pi. 112. 



Of those figured in the 'Voyage aux Indes et k la Chine' all are fully noticed, except the sub- 

 jects of plates 95 and 122 (wrongly lettered "219"), which are but incidentally mentioned— the 

 former, Poule sauvage dcs Indes, under No. 85 ; and the latter, Bee-ouvert blanc des Indes. between 

 \os. 32 and 33. 



The other papers here reprinted need little remark. They have been added merely to complete 

 this collection of pieces; but, whatever may be thought of the author's Alanda tnrdina, A. tuilu 

 and A. briinialis, it has long since been admitted that his Faleo rufus and Fiingilla alpina are 

 respectively the Faleo vespertinus and Fringilla citrinella of Linnsus— the plates, which it has not 

 seemed worth while to reproduce, representing them making those identifications certain. 



As before stated the original work is in folio, but in reducing these extracts to quarto size the 

 greatest care has been taken to present them page for page, line for line, and letter for letter. 



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