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Vespertilio megapodius is evidently my capaccinii, of which 
I may add, that the Vespertilio dasypus, of the Turin Museum, 
is a synonyme. As I now wish to raise this species to the dignity 
of a genus, I shall call it Capaccinius megapodius, being ever 
desirous of honouring a most worthy prelate, whom I would 
gladly see sitting where he delights to sustain the honour of 
Eoman learning, especially in our assemblies. The Vesper- 
tilio humeralis is not a good species, but only a variety of 
mystacinus. The Vispistrellus is nothing else than the Ves- 
pertilio kuJili. And here we may remark, that Savi will lose 
this as well as others of his species, as among Birds he loses 
his Emheriza palustris, which is identical with the Emheriza 
pyrrhuloides of Pallas. Another more magnificent and more 
recent work, which is also under the direction of Temminck, 
and does great honour to the typography and calchography 
of Holland, are the Illustrations of tlie Island of Java ; the 
last number of which contains a most interesting new genus of 
Marsupial. Schlegel continues his coloured representations of 
Amphibia, of which I have just received the fourth fasciculus, 
containing, among other things, the figures of many Salaman- 
dridm, among which I rejoice to see figured the celebrated 
Pleurodeles, which I strongly recommended to the scalpel of 
our countryman, Busconi, and which is accurately drawn 
with the very sharp ribs projecting beyond the skin. I cannot, 
however, abstain from expressing my regret, at seeing there 
repeated, among the Italian Salamanders, those words intro- 
duced equivocally, and now admitted to be erroneous, video 
meliora prohoque, deteriora sequor^^ It is superfluous to say, 
that in his own modern writings, Schregel continues to increase 
that spirit of ultra reunion, which I need not have alluded to, 
if that fatal school had not invaded our own country. It is a 
mischievous inconsistency in his principles, that while restrict- 
ing species, he yet multiplies their names, by giving a new 
term to the species which embraces the former ones ; a fatality 
which persecutes Zoology ! And to say the truth, the daz- 
zling style of Schlegel, the confidence with which he lays down 
his own opinion, often indeed a just, and never a trifling one, 
frequently induce the reader to despise the object which he 
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