PREFACE 



The Index to the Genera of Birds makes no contribution to 

 the history, the derivation, or the validity of generic names, 

 nor does it consider any of the interesting perplexities of synon- 

 ymy. It is only a guide for the location of names in the books 

 indexed. 



This index contains the generic and the subgeneric names 

 found in Bonaparte's Conspectus,^ Gray's Hand-list,^ the Cata- 



' Conspectus | generum avium. | auctore | Carolo Luciano Bonaparte. 

 I Tom. I. I Lugduni Batavorum, | apud | E. J. Brill, | Academiae typo- 

 graphum. | [dash] | 1850. | 6 pages unnumbered +1-544 pp. Tom. II, 

 1857, title similar to that of Tom. I., title page+1-232 pp. Index | ad 

 I Caroli Luciani Bonaparte | Conspectum generum avium. | auctore | O. 

 Finsch. | [dash} | Lugduni Batavorum, | apud | E. J. Brill. | [dash] | 

 1865. 1-24 pp. My copy of Volume I seems to be of the first edition 

 as distinguished by Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1917), 53, 579, foot- 

 note 2. 



" Hand-list | of | genera and species | of birds, | distinguishing those 

 contained | in the | Britisli Museum. | by | G. R. Gray, F.R.S. etc., 

 I assistant keeper of the zoological collections. | Part I. | Accipitres, 

 Fissirostres, Tenuirostres, | and Dentirostres. 1 London: | Printed by 

 order of the trustees. | 1869. | i-xx+1-404 pp. Titles of Parts II and III 

 are similar, by George Robert Gray. Part II, Conirostres, Scansores, 

 Columbae, and Gallinae, 1870, i-xvi-|- 1-278 pp. Part III, Struthiones, 

 Grallae, and Anseres, with indices of generic and specific names, 1871, 

 i-xii + 1-350 pp. Indexes to the three parts, pp. 133-350. 



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