IV 
PREFACE. 
hoc sublevarem illos, qui nova haec Individua LINNAEANO NATURAE SYSTEM ATI 
addefe 7iellc7ii. 
But not content herewith he has treated in the same way the animals described by Sonnerat 
in his 'Voyage aux Indes et a la Chine', and this without 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 in — 114 will be 
found in the second volume of the 'Voyage aux Indes et a la Chine', all the rest pertaining to the 
older 'Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee'. 
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 '^Ibidcm'\ 
„ 19 for " Tab. 47" read " Tab. 42". 
„ 28 „ "priore 25" „ "priore 27". 
„ 31 „ "Tab. 119" „ ''Tab. 120", but the 
plate is wrongly numbered "121 ". 
„ 34 add "p. 54. Tab. 24." 
„ 38 for "p. 150" read "p. 157". 
No. 67 (or "Ckma" read "-Insula Ltizo7r\ 
„ 68 „ "Tab. 30. C" read "Tab. 30. D ". 
„ 75 before "51" insert " Tab." 
76 add "p. 90. Tab. 52," 
78 „ "p. 85. Tab. 48." 
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 "^UX.\ix2. Motacillae:' 
113 for "Pag. 116. Tab. 208. f. i." read "Pag. 
206. Tab. 115." 
„ 44 „ "p. 69'' „ "p. 68". 
„ 45 M "P-20" „ "p. 120". 
„ 51 „ "7^^^. 36",, ''Tab.y]\ 
„ 54 „ "p. 64" „ "p. 65". 
„ 56 „ "p. 67" „ "p. 68". 
„ 57 „ "p. 170" „ "p. 171". 
„ 58 add "p. 171. Tab. T07." 
„ 59 „ " Tab. 100." 
60 „ "p. 166. Tab. 1 01." 
„ 64 for "p. 209" read "p. 210". | 
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 a la Nouvelle Guinee', five do not receive names. These are 
Le Gobe-mouche a gorge jaune de Flsle de Luqon., p. 57, pi. ;.6, fig. 2. 
Le Pelican brun de ITsle de Luqon^ p. 91, pi. 53. 
Le Pelican rose de Vlsle de Luqo7t, p. 91, pf. 54. 
Le Goura de la nouvelle Guinee., p. 169, pi. 104. 
Le Lori de Gilolo, p. 177, pi. 112. 
(Jf those figured in the 'Voyage aux Indes ct a la Chine' all arc fully noticed, except the sub- 
jects of plates 95 and 122 (wrongly lettered "219"), which are but incidentally mentioned— the 
former, Poule sauvage des Indes, under No. 85 ; and the latter, Bec-ouvert blanc des Indes, between 
Nos. 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 thou-ht of the author's Alauda turdina, A. turlu 
and A. brumalis, it has long since been admitted that his Falco rufus and Fi-ingilla alpina are 
respectively the Falco vespcrtinus and Fringilla citrinclla of Linucxus- the plates, which it has not 
seemed worth while to reproduce, representing them making those identifications certain. 
As before staled the original work is in folio, but in reducing these extracts to quarto size the 
greatest care has bcm taken to present them page for page, line for line, and letter for letter, 
14 I)<crnd)rr, 1881. A. N. 
