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J. F. Miller's leones. 
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Aptenodytes crestata Miller. 
The complications around this name will be discussed 
later, as this is an Austral-Neozelanic species, and the details 
are very confusing. 
Ardea NiEViA Miller. 
This is earlier than Ardea ncevia Boddaert in use for the 
American form of Nycticorax nycticorax, and it appears 
doubtful whether these are exactly the same thing. 
Otis indica Miller. 
This name was first proposed by Forster in 1781, but 
appears as an absolute nomen nudum. It has been used ex 
Gmelin, whose account is based solely on Miller, but has 
lately been rejected in favour of Latham’s aurita. The 
beautiful painting seen in the original edition of Miller’s 
plates so exactly applies to the “ Sypheotis ” that the name 
must be revived and the bird known as Sypheotides indica 
(Miller). 
These notes will draw attention to the necessity of recon¬ 
sidering the whole of the names involved in these works, and 
recourse can always be made to the volume here studied, 
which has been placed in the library of the British Museum 
(Natural History). 
Mr. B. B. Woodward has pointed out to us that in Rees’ 
New Cyclopaedia, Yol. xxxii., under the article about George 
Shaw, it is definitely stated that sixty plates were published 
by Miller under the title “ Various Subjects in Natural 
History, wherein are delineated Birds, Animals, and many 
curious Plants,” but that the lack of letterpress proved a 
drawback, and consequently these plates were republished 
under the title “ Cimelia Physica,” descriptions being- 
supplied by George Shaw. The title above cited agrees 
with that given by Watts, who adds “with the parts of 
Fructification of each Plant, all of which are drawn and 
coloured from Nature.” 
