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NOMENCLATURE. 
Compound generic terms may be formed by a combination of 
the names of two other genera, and when this practice serves 
to express the position and affinities of the group it may 
be adopted with advantage, as in ArloU incur, etc. 
Names formed anagrammatically, as Mihuv. 
The employment of generic names already in use in other depart- 
ments of Zoology is not desirable, and wherever possible should he 
avoided. 
The Specific names should he formed of a single word, preferably 
a Latin adjective or substantive, of a short and euphonious character, 
though Latinized Greek words and undeclinable words of other lan- 
guages may be admitted, and should be written or printed with a small 
initial ; though upon this point there is some difference of opinion 
amongst authors, some using an initial capital letter for personal and 
geographical names and a small initial for all others. In certain 
cases where the name of the object after which the organism is named 
is formed of two words, the si)ecitic name may be double also, as 
//. sancta’-heli'iuc ; or where a comparison is sought with another 
object, as in ^1. cornu-arirfis, the two words may be legitimately 
used, but should always be connected by a hyphen. 
Specific names may be 
Substantives or adjectives recalling some character or pecu- 
liarity of the species, as J'ontiiudis, auricnldria, etc. 
Names of persons to whom the species may be dedicated ; 
these if in the genitive case are formed in masculine names 
by tlie addition of a simple i to the full and exact name of 
the person to whom the species is dedicated, as soirerbi/l, 
or the name may be used in the adjective form taking 
the termination anus, ana, or anum, in accordance with 
the generic term, as In feminine names the 
dil)th()ng ae is added to or combined with the name to 
be Latinized as furtonw, rmnnc, etc. In those cases where 
the name has been employed and declined in the Latin 
tongue, it will follow the regular declension, as snn]ironii. 
Geographical names if known to the Homans or Latinized 
by the medimval writers, should also be in the genitive 
or in the adjective form, as (intilhiriim, hurdi<i<(]riiAs, 
(i'f/iipfi((cn.'!, etc. If the names have not been used in Latin 
