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This will complement an 1898 publication by Charles Davies Sherborn and indeed since then no fresh wrapper evidence appears to have been discovered. From our website www.avespress.com it will be seen that this journal is dedicated to Sherborn and to Iris U.S. correspondent and fellow bibliographer Charles W. Richmond. Proposals that were made to the Society for the History of Natural History to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sherborn's birth seem to be receiving favourable consideration and a meeting in London in October seems likely. We shall use the mailing list of those readers who, in our website, have requested updates regarding issues of Zoological Bibliography, to circulate readers with more information on this meeting and no doubt we shall have further news to include in our May issue. We thank Nigel Robinson at Thomson-Reuters for arranging to ensure that articles in Zoological Bibliography receive attention in the Zoological Record and for his interest in assisting Connie Rinaldo and Andrea Kourgli and our group of Notes gatherers to scour the recent literature. Bibliographic gems embedded in works on taxonomy sometimes get no stimulatory mention in either the abstract or tire keywords so the gathering of information for the Notes section will probably long be heavily dependent on what comes to the attention of the Board and what is submitted to the Acting Editor zoobibl@avespress.com Finally, we thank readers for their interest, subscriptions, and feedback and we look forward to welcoming their manuscripts for consideration. Edward Dickinson, Acting Editor February 2011 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 44 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Jardine's "Contributions to Ornithology" 1848-1853: II. Contents and dates of issue Edward C. Dickinson, Leslie K. Overstreet, Murray D. Bruce & Robert J. Dowsett COPYRIGHT: © 2011 Dickinson, Overstreet, Bruce & Dowsett. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT: In the first part of this paper (Dickinson et al. 2010) we provided a short history of this early periodical and details of what we believe to have been the pagination of each issue. We also recommended citation to the full title including its year date and that volume numbers not be used. Here we look at the evidence available to date those issues and confirm the need to correct some dates from each of 1851 and 1852 to 1852 and 1853. More exact dates of issue remain elusive although in many cases it is possible to give a date before which an issue would not have appeared. We also examine the cancellation and replacement of two names and a case where precedence as traditionally assigned between this work and a German work is still in not satisfactorily resolved. KEYWORDS: dates of publication, ICZN Code, precedence, cancellans. INTRODUCTION Although Richmond (1992), based on his examination of Verreaux's set, added dates to many of his cardex cards he did not assemble and publish these findings, and indeed, knowing that evidence was lacking, he would have looked at those cards as work in progress. Yet Richmond actually explored almost all the evidence, and we, to a great extent, have just re-examined it. He drew on his unpublished cards where he collected published dates of receipt and on the dates found on some of the plates. He evidently believed that two issues were not published within the years that the volumes implied they should have appeared in, and this finding, which we confirm here, can now be published. Richmond probably understood the pagination per issue better than anyone, but there is no evidence he understood Jardine's curious page numbering and it is likely that this contributed to such doubts as he still held. The evidence from the plates is accessible on-line in the set belonging to the Radcliffe Library, Oxford University. We include a table to link that evidence and to the rest in this paper. However the collation of the Radcliffe copy is not chronologically correct and the difference in collation compared to Jardine's content issue by issue also requires linking and we do this within the five tables that set out the content year by year, and issue by issue, each including a column showing the sequence in the Radcliffe set. Each table is followed by numbered notes: these often explain Jardine's page numbering, but some signal a date that must have passed before the issue was published. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 45 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) DETAILS OF THE VOLUMES AND ISSUES YEAR BY YEAR Jardine's eccentric page-numbering affects the first three years and it is in these that one can best observe his experimentation with sections (see the first part of this paper). The 'Illustrations of Ornithology' do not continue in the last two volumes, where hyphenated page numbers become rare. In the following annual tables we rely heavily on the collation of the complete set that Catherine Strickland called her 'personal copy' and we show the hyphenated page numbers where they were used and these should not be confused with page ranges. In the column for plate numbers the numbers assigned to the vignettes, included within text pages, are asterisked. Finally, as mentioned above, there is a column to show the different sequence of collation in the Radcliffe set, and a final one to signal the notes that follow the table. 1848 Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Lizars 1848 title naee ( verso blank) 1 . [Lizars] contents page (verso blank) Presumed issue 1. 1-117-2] Hints for preparing specimens and transmitting ornithological specimens from foreign countries 3 to 13 1 2. Blank verso to page 13 Illustrations of Ornithology 14-1, 15-2 1,2 4 3. Notes on the Structure of Birds Ortalida ruficauda 16-1 + [17-2] 3, 4* 7 4. Presumed issue 2. 18-14 to 28-4 Papyrography and its application to the illustration of ornithology 18-14 to 22-18 2 5. Blank verso to p. 22-18 Illustrations of Ornithology 23-3 to 26-6 5, 6,7 5 6. Notes on the Structure of Birds Penelope cristate 27-3, 28-4 8, 9* 8 7. Presumed issue 3. 29-19 to 63-10 Calendar 29-19 to 59-49 3 8. Verso of page 59 blank Illustrations of Ornithology 60-7 to 63-10 10, 11, 12 6 9. Notes to the above table: (1) In later volumes the content began with p. 1; here pp. 1-2 were presumably reserved for something such as the Contents page that was provide when the volume was complete. (2) It is apparent that these 'hints' were Jardine's instructions to his collectors. (3) The first of the pages is a recto page despite its even number. Jardine wanted a plate and its text page open together so here the plate is on the left and its text on the right of the opened spread. (4) Here again an even-numbered recto page starts this. The text page for pi. 4 is unnumbered, the 'plate' is in fact a vignette to be found on p. 17-2 (which is the verso of 16-1). (5) In Horsfield's set a half-title is to be found inserted ahead of 'Papyrography'. Combined the two parts of these hyphenated page numbers provide, first, a 'global' page number (the running page number), and, second, a 'sectional' page number: here "-14" to "-18" signal the intent that these should be bound after pp. 1-13 as general text following those on 'Hints for preparing specimens'. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 46 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) (6) The pages numbered "-3" and "-4" complement those associated with pll. 1 and 2 and show the intent that a section could be arranged where all these plates of the 'Illustrations of Ornithology' and their texts might be placed together. Pages 23-3 and 24-4 relate to the first of these three plates; the other two plates were explained in p. 25-5 and p. 26-6 respectively. (7) Here "-3" and "-4" extend the section on the 'Structure of Birds', suggesting an intent to create a stream of further notes on this subject. Plate 9 is on page 28-4. (8) As pp. 19 to 49 these complete the general pagination of this volume. (9) Finally three more plates of the core section: 60-7 and 61-8 relate to the first, while 62-9 and 63-10 relate to the second and third of these. Again these text pages start on a recto page despite the even number (p. 60 and p. 62). 1849 Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Lizars 1849 title page (verso blank) [Lizars] contents page (continued on verso) Presumed issue 1. 1 to 32 Gordon on habits of West African birds 1-13 1 1. Blank verso of p. 13 plus 1 blank leaf 2. Illustrations of Ornithology 14-1, 15-2 and "17-4" 13, 14, 15 15 3. Illustrations of Foreign Oology 19-1 16 14 4. Hartlaub's Concordance for ... Temminck's Catalogue ... of the year 1807 [19]-[25] 2 5. Blank verso of p. [25] Unpublished correspondence of Linnaeus 27 to 29, 31 and 32 3 6. Blank verso of p. 32 plus 1 blank leaf 2. Presumed issue 2. 33-5 to [46] Illustrations of Ornithology 33-5 to 35-7 17, 18, 19 16 7. Blank verso of p. 35-7 Linnaean correspondence (cont.) 37 to 40 4 Ornithology of Quito 41 to 45 5 Blank verso to p. 45 Presumed issue 3. 46-8 to 59 Illustrations of Ornithology 46-8 to 47-9 20, 21 17 8. Notes on the Structure of Birds - Menura 48-1; 49-2 22, 23*, 24 8 9. Observations on the systematic position of the genus Artamus 50 to 59 25 10 Presumed issue 4. 60-10 to 87-12 Illustrations of Ornithology 60-10 to 65-15 26, 27, 28 18 10. Ornithology of Quito (cont'd.) 66-1 6 Oreotrachilus jamesonii Jardine 'October 1849' 67-2 7 11. Kaup's Monograph of tire Falconidae 68-1 to 75-8 11 12. Ornithology of the Bermudas 76-1 to 87-12 13 13. Presumed issue 5. 88-16 to [95] Illustrations of Ornithology 88-16 to 94-22 29, 30, 31, 32 19 14. Verso of 94-22 blank Presumed issue 617. 96-9 to 139 Kaup's Monograph of tire Falconidae (cont.) 96-9 to 121-34 12 15. Blank leaf Illustrations of Ornithology 122-23 to 129-30 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 20 16. Four new birds described by Eyton 38 21 17. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 47 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Notes on the Structure of Birds. The sternum 132-3, 133-4 39 9 18. of the Vulturidae by Eyton New or rare birds in Britain 134 to 138 40 22 19. Verso of p, 138 blank 139 Notes to the above table: (1) Note that pagination begins with 1 not 3 as in 1848. (2) Counting the blank leaf the 16 pages make up one or two complete signatures. (3) Three plates for the core section with three pages of text ('14-T, '15-2' and '17-4'); no page 16-3 seen. The birds depicted in these plates belonged to the collection of Capt. Boys and were bought by Strickland when that collection was sold. (4) The number 19-1 appears on the verso of 17-4 which may originally have been 16-3 as there is no page 18, perhaps changed when it was noted that the subject differed and did not belong in 'Illustrations of Ornithology'. We believe that the hyphenated page number signals that 'Foreign Oology' may have been identified as a section to be added to (perhaps in later issues, but in the event not until the next volume). (5) This 8-page signature, with the last page blank, is curiously numbered. There are tiny numbers which seem to have originated in a first use elsewhere (indeed the pages appear to be an offprint supplied by Hartlaub and bound in): there is a small 'Y on p. 1, a small '2, on page 2 which relates to a two page spread, and the next two double page spreads are similarly numbered '3' and '4'; this signature is also found hand-numbered as pp. 20 to 26. (6) This is a short signature of 6 pages. The curious situation with page number 31 on the back of 29 is open to various explanations, but perhaps the most persuasive is that the type setters were well aware that page 33-5 came next and they could only fudge the result. (7) Plates 17 to 19 follow on from plates 13 to 15 in the 'Illustrations' section. Three pages of text ('-5' to '-7') support these three plates in the core section. (8) Two pages of text ('-8' and '-9') for two plates for the core section. (9) The structural notes deal with Menura (2 pll) and Penelope (1 pi). Plate 23* is on p. 49-2. (10) Six text pages ('-10' to '-15') relating to three plates in the core section. (11) Described here; a plate follows in next volume. (12) Confusingly Jardine now used pages with suffixes to their numbers to signal an article that is split and is to continue later (thus 68-1 to 75-8 can be bound, and may be found bound, together with 96-9 to 121-34). (13) Here page numbers with a suffix may also have signalled an intent to split the paper, but in fact tire balance appeared next year. (14) Four more plates in the core section with 7 pages of text ('-16' to '-23'). (15) We cannot be certain that these 26 pages all came out in the final issue; the low page count for issue 5 suggests that some were in there and the rest in double-issue 6/7. (16) Five more plates with text pages ('-23' to '-30') for the core section. (17) This plate is dated December 1849. On this evidence Richmond, in his cards relating to taxa named in this issue, expressed the view that this part probably did not appear until 1850. It is also possible, however, that the plate followed later. We have found no evidence to support either view and consider that the date 1849 should be retained, as it was by Deignan (1964), Mayr (1967) and Watson (1986). (18) Two pages with a plate of the sternum of vultures and other birds of prey. (19) Seven topics treated in these pages; a plate accompanies the first of them. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 48 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) 1850 Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Lizars 1850 title page (verso blank) [Lizars] contents page (continued on verso) Notice and list of plate numbers [iii]-iv Presumed issue 1. 1-30 Ornithology of Quito 1 to 3 1 Blank verso to p. 3 4 Ornithology of the Bermudas 5 to 14 2 Observations on the position of Artamus sanguinolentus Temminck 15 to 16 41* 5 1 . Scolopax brehmi Kaup 17 to 18 6 Illustrations of Foreign Oology 19 to 26 42 7 Illustrations of Ornithology 27-1 to 29-3 43, 44, 45 23 2. [A note complementing p. 124-5 from 1849] 30-4 3. Presumed issue 2. 31-50 Recto blank (thicker paper used for vignette on p. 32; see note) [31] 4. Remarks on Sternn inca Less. 32 to 34 46* 12 Ornithology of the Bermudas (cont.) 35 to 38 3 Blank recto to p. 40 Illustrations of Foreign Oology 40 to 46 47* 9 5. Illustrations of Ornithology 47-5 to 50-8 48, 49, 50, 51 24 6. Presumed issue 3. 51-80 Monograph of the Falconidae (cont.) 51 to 80 13 7. Presumed issue 4. 67-84 Ornithology of the Bermudas (cont.) 67 4 Blank verso of p. 67 Illustrations of Foreign Oology 69 to 72 52 10 Notes on the osteology of the scansores 73 to 80 53, 54 14 8. Illustrations of Ornithology 81-9, 82-10 and 82-11 55, 56, 58 26 9. Blank verso of p. 82-11 [No page 84] 10. Presumed issue 5. 85-104 Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh: Ornithology of Section D 85 to 87 15 Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh: On a peculiar structure in the rectrices of Vidua paradisea 88 to 91 59 16 Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh: Gould on John McGillivray's researches 92 to 105 60* 17 11. Presumed issue 6. 105-122 Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh: Gould on John McGillivray's researches 105 [in second state 105, '160', 105*] 18 12. Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh: Some observations on the birds of the Faroe Islands 106 to 117 [in second state 106* to 117] 19 Blank verso of p. 117 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 49 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Illustrations of Ornithology 119-13 to 121-15 61, 62, 63 27 13. Blank verso of p. 121-15 Presumed issue 7. 123-154 The dodo 123 to 127 21 Blank verso of p. 127 Ornithology of the coasts and islands of western Africa 129 to 140 22 Illustrations of Ornithology 141-17 to 143-19 64, 65 28 14. Blank verso ofp. 143-19 Illustrations of Foreign Oology 145 57 11 15. Blank verso to p. 145 Illustrations of Ornithology 147-21 and 148-22 66 29 16. Note on the rectrices of Vidua paradisea 149 20 Blank verso to p. 149 Trochilus allardi 151 25 Blank verso to p. 151 Grus antigcme (additional text re pi. 42) 153 8 Blank verso to p. 153 Notes to the above table: (1) The title in the list of contents gives the species name given above although the original text page read Ocypterus sanguinolentus, and a vignette (plate 41) on p. 16 is titled Psaropholus which is the name in the list of plate numbers for 1848, 1849 and 1850. (2) Three pages of text ('-T to '-3') for plates for the core section. (3) This text page, not in the list of contents, assigned the type locality of Java to Pycnosphrys gratmniceps which was depicted in plate 34 published 1849, and emended the spelling of the generic name to Pycnosphys. (4) This thicker page has been inserted to carry the colour vignette on its verso (p. 32) where the text begins and then continues on p. 33; the thick paper of pp. [39], 40 is the same sheet. Six standard weight pages intervene. (5) Plate 47 is a vignette appearing on p. 40. (6) Four plates with four pages of text ('-5' to '-8') for the core section. In Catherine Strickland's set we found two versions of pages 49-7 and 50-8. We further discuss these below after our conclusions in respect of the dates of the issues. (7) This continues from p. 121-34 of tine 1849 volume, but hyphenated page numbers are now dropped. We believe the collation correctly has pp. 51-80 here as found in Catherine Strickland's complete set (which results in the double use of pp. 67-80); and we conclude that Verreaux's set, examined by Richmond (see Part I of our paper), might have lacked one or other of the groups of pages numbered 67 to 80. Tire second group of pages 67 to 80 applies to other content which we associate with issue 4. It is hard to envisage Richmond missing a duplication of page numbers and more likely that he could miss the completion of Kaup's monograph. We caution however that we have no means of being sure of the correct collation; perhaps pp. 67 to 80, which we associate above with issue 4, appeared with issue 3 and the extra pages of Kaup's monograph, al though lacking suffixes to the page numbers, appeared in issue 4. (8) These structure plates relate to species of Ramphastos and Psilopogon. (9) Three plates with three pages ('-9' to '-IT) for the core section. (10) Counting pages 81-9 to 82-11 and the verso of that we have 4 pages; almost certainly a half signature was used here and the lack of a page 84 is due to a decision to use the recto of a fresh page for the next issue numbering that 85. The 'missing' page was physically impossible. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 50 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) (11) Plate 60 is a vignette on p. 102 which is footnoted 'see note page 105'. (12) The curious pagination here is due to the last minute replacement of pp. 105-106 by four new pages that included what had been printed before, but with the insertion of the text for Gould's novelties. One of the two volume sets in Cambridge did not include Gould's note and has p. 105 in its first state: this has p. 105 ending after tire few lines that close with 'a sore affliction to his bereaved family' and Wolley's article begins on the verso. Thus we have proof that only in its second state was page 105 reprinted with Gould's text beginning there and with p. '160' on its verso, and p. 105* continues his note (and it is on this page that the footnote, promised on p. 102 appears; it is not on p. 105 in its original state) and has the original text from p. 160 (Wolley's first page) reprinted on p. 106*. In Catherine Strickland's set these pages are visibly cleaner and less discoloured than those on either side. It should be noted that in both states Wolley's opening page is on the verso of a page with some text. Richmond had evidence (see Table I, in part one) that led him to believe it probable that issue 5 ended on p. 104. While this is not quite at the end of an article it is at the end of a half signature; it would imply issue 5 consisted of two and a half signatures. Perhaps the explanation for breaking here was that although further pages had been printed (and the existence of pp. 105-106 in their original state strongly suggests this) there was a sudden need to insert Gould's note. (13) Three more plates with four printed and one blank pages ('-13' to '-16') for the core section (-12 having been allowed for as the verso of -11). (14) Two more plates with three printed and one blank pages ('-17' to '-20') for the core section. (15) It is unclear why this plate was numbered 57 when clearly associated with page 145, and when other plates in this volume were not numbered, but it is possible that it appeared even later than its text which had already been delayed. (16) One final plate with two text pages ('-21' and '-22') for the core section. 1851 Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Lizars 1851 title naee (verso blank) Contents rn-ii Issue 1. 1-48 Ornithology in 1850 1 to 14 67,68 1 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland [Nos. I and II.] 15 to 16 2 Nouvelle classification des Picinees ou Pics by Malherbe 17 to 20 4 On some new species of Calliste by P.L. Sclater 21 to 25 69 5 Blank verso to p. 25 Monographie des Loxiens by Bonaparte & Schlegel 27 to 47 6 Blank verso to p. 47 Issue 2. 49-80 Synopsis of the Tanagrine genus Calliste, with descriptions of new species by P.L. Sclater 49 to 69 70 7 1. Blank verso to p. 69 On two new species of Euphonia ... by H.E. Strickland 71 to 73 8 Blank verso to p. 73 Descriptions of some new species and a new genus of Dendrocolaptinae by T.C. Eyton 75 to 77 9 2. Blank verso to p. 77 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 51 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Illustrations of Ornitholoev 79 to 80 71. 72 10 Issue 3. 81-104 Synopsis of the genus Euphonia, with descriptions of new species by P.L. Sclater 81 to 92 75 12 Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [Nos. I, II and in] 93 to 101 73 13 3. Blank verso to p. 101 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland [No. Ill] On the type of the genus Did us. 103 to 104 74 3 4. Issue 4. 105-130 Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. IV] 105-11 to 110-16 14 5. Illustrations of Ornithology 111-3 to 112-4 [80] 11 6. Gnathodon Strigirostris, Jard. 113-5 to 114-6 16 Scytalopus Gould, 1836 115-7 to 118-10 76, 77, 78 17 7. Monograph of the Owls by T. Kaup 119 to 130 18 Issue 5/6. 131-163 Notes on some birds from the River Gaboon in West Africa by H.E. Strickland 131 to 135 79 19 8. Blank verso to p. 135 Delayed plate from p. 111 text 80 9. On a new species of Musophaga by J. Gould 137 to 138 81 20 10. Descriptions of three new species of humming birds by J. Gould 139 to 140 21 Birds of Western Africa; Hirundo gordoni, Jard. 141 22 Blank verso of p. 141 142 Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. V] 143 15 11. Blank verso of p. 143 Observations on the genus Scytalopus by de la Lresnaye 145 to 150 23 12. Birds of Western Africa; collections of Louis Eraser 151 to 156 24 13. Cypselus a If inis, Gray 157 to 158 25 14. Descriptions of two new species of Synallaxis by T.C. Eyton 159 26 15. Blank verso of p. 159 Further notes on birds from the River Gaboon in West Africa by H.E. Strickland 161 to 163 27 Blank verso of p. 163 164 Notes to the above table: (1) Sclater (1857) on p. viii of his ' Monograph of the birds forming the Tanagrine genus Calliste', wrote that issue 2 of this volume, held his synopsis of that genus (pp. 49 et seq.), and was "published in the month of April" (Richmond, note on unpublished card). The plate date of May 1851 contradicts this, but May could have been a targeted month of publication which was beaten. (2) Page 468 of the October issue of Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851 mentioned Eyton's paper on Dendrexetastes (pp. 75-77) (Richmond, note on unpublished card). (3) Observation I comments on a paper that appeared in the April and May issues of the Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 52 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) (4) Page 583 of the December issue of Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851 mentioned this paper (Richmond, note on unpublished card) but Lafresnaye must have erred in suggesting that page 103 appeared in issue 5. Compare this with note 7 below. (5) Tire appendix is dated 1 August 1851 on p. 110. (6) Tire text for plate LXXX is dated 7 August 1851 on p, 112-4, but the plate is dated 1852 so this must have appeared, as its numbering suggests, in the final delayed double part. (7) The letter from Lafresnaye dated 14 Oct. 1851, on p. 145 of this volume of the Contributions, confirmed receipt of issue 4 in which the article on Scytalopus appeared (Richmond, note on unpublished card). (8) Plate 8, printed in colour by Reeve & Nichols, is dated 1851. hi p. 161 in the final article Strickland wrote "Soon after my former notice of some birds from the River Gaboon of p. 131 supra, was printed 1 received the 'Revue et Magasin de Zoologie' for June and July 1851, which contains the commencement of a paper by MM. J. and E. Verreaux, relating to the same collection of birds." If Richmond, as we believe, is correct and issues 5 and 6 appeared together then p. 131 and others must have been printed and held for quite some time. (9) This is the delayed colour plate printed by F. Reeve and dated 1852. (10) Plate 81 is dated December 1851. (11) This article is dated Oxford Oct. 29, 1851 on p. 143. (12) See note 7 above. (13) Several new names are proposed and all are dated 'Nov. 1851'. (14) The content is mainly the text of a letter from Hartlaub to Strickland dated 8 November 1851. (15) This brief note is associated with a plate, usually assigned number 81 st , which is dated 1852. 1852 Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Lizars 1852 title r>ase (verso blank) dated 1853 at foot Contents m-liil Issue 1. 1-28 Ornithology in 1851 1 to 19 1 Blank verso to p. 19 Remarks on Dendrocolaptina? by T.C. Eyton 21 to 26 2 Notes on genus Dramas Paykull 27 3 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland. [No. IV] Coccyzus pumilus 28 82 4 Issue 2. 29-46 Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. VI]. Synopsis of the genus Galbula. 29 to 33 9 Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. VII] On a new species of the genus Nigrita 34 83 10 Illustrations of Foreign Oology 35 to 39 84 12 Habits of Larus canus 40 13 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland. [No. V] On two species of Todirostrum. 41 to 42 85 5 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland. [No. VI] On a new species of Nectnrinia. 42 to 43 86 6 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland. [No. VII] On the distinctness of Monasafusca ... 43 to 44 7 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 53 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland. [No. VIII] On Pams ivnotus Gmel. 44 to 45 8 Blank verso to p. 45 Issue 3. 47-68 Illustrations of Indian ornithology by E. Blyth. [No. I - nil 47 to 55 87, 88, 89 14 1 . Blank verso to p. 55 Birds of Western Africa; collections of Louis Fraser 57 to 60 15 2. Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. VII*] 61 11 3. Blank verso to p. 61 Ornithology of the island of Tobago 63-68 16 Issue 4. 69-92 4. Detailed characters of some species of plantain eaters by E, Riippell 69 to 75 18 Blank verso to p. 75 On the geographical distribution of the genus Turacus Cuv. by G. Hartlaub 77 to 80 19 On Tobago 81 to 88 17 Ornithology of the United States Exploring Expedition 89 to 90 20 Baldeniceps rex Gould by J.W. von Muller 91 to 92 21 Issue 5. 93-116 Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. VIII] Further remarks on Galbulidae 93 to 95 90 22 5. Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. IX] On the birds from Yucatan. 96 23 6. Illustrations of Indian ornithology by E. Blyth. [No. ivi 97 to 98 91 24 7. Illustrations of Indian ornithology by E. Blyth. [No. V] 99 to 100 92 25 7. Ornithological observations by P.L. Sclater [No. X] On certain species of Dacnis. 101 to 102 93 26 Monograph of the owls by T.T. Kaup 103 to 116 27 8, Issue 6. 117-140 9. Monograph of the owls by T.T. Kaup 117 to 122 28 List of a collection of birds made by James Daubenv on the Red Sea in 1851 by P.L. Sclater 123 to 126 29 Ornithological notes by H.E. Strickland. [No. IX] Description of Iridosornis dubusia (Bon.) 127 to 128 94 30 Descriptions of some new species of birds from the Parisian coUections 129 to 132 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 31 On a new species of the family Ampelidae by E. Cornalia 133 101 32 10. Note upon Dr. Llartlaub's Cinnyris bianconii 134 95 33 11. Descriptions of three new species of humming birds by J. Gould 135 to 137 34 12. Blank verso to p. 137 Description of Sigmodus caniceps 139 to 140 35 13. Issue 7. 141-162 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 54 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Content (paraphrased titles) Page(s) Plates Seq. Notes List of a collection of birds procured by Mr. C.T. Andersson in the Damara country of South-western Africa bv II.E. Strickland and P.L. Sclater 141 to 160 36 14. On Buceros cultratus, a new species from Sierra Leone by C. Sundevall 161 to 162 37 15. Notes to the above table: (1) The footnote on p. 54 signed 'Z' is by Blyth; 'Zoophilus' (here abbreviated) was his nom de plume. (2) A tiny vignette on p. 58 is not counted in any list of plates. (3) This note is dated 'London. 16 May 1852'. (4) A letter from 'Kitty' (Catherine Strickland) to her father dated May 31 reported the safe arrival of this part (Archives, NITM). (5) Plate 90 is dated June 1852. (6) This paper is omitted from the list of contents. (7) This plate is dated November 1852 as is the next one. (8) A footnote to p. 109 regrets the fact that plate 1 from Gray's ' Erebus & Terror’ for which the text had been out for some years had not appeared; in fact it is considered that it appeared only in 1875 (see Zimmer, 1926). (9) No evidence was noted to support Richmond's information regarding the pagination per part and thus the split of this paper between issues 5 and 6. (10) The letter herein is dated from Milan 'Oct. 28, 1852'. (11) Article dated 'Bologna Oct. 1852'. (12) Gould's letter from London is dated Oct. 22, 1852. (13) There is mention here of a letter from Bremen dated 26 March 1852. (14) No plates listed although on p. 153 there is a suggestion that one was intended. One, of Sphenaeacus pycnopygius, is to be found uncoloured amongst 30 other uncoloured plates bound at tire back of Catherine Strickland's 'personal copy' in Cambridge, although where described, on p. 148, there is no hint that one was planned. (15) Reference is made to a letter from Sundevall dated 20 July 1852. An uncoloured plate of Buceros cultratus is to be found in Newton's set in Cambridge. EVIDENCE FROM THE PLATES In the table below the plates numbers, which do not appear on the plates, are taken from the 'Notice' (Jardine, 1850). The subject names are also extracted from there but are different if the plate or its text when published actually gave another name. We take plate dates as 'not before dates' which were perhaps engraving dates or perhaps dates of intended publication. Thus they are informative but not themselves publication dates. Table IV: the plates cross-referenced to Hugh Strickland's set Legend: Refers to the Radcliffe Library copy in Google Books; v. (in col. 1) = vignette; d (in col. 2) = duplicates present; t (in col. 2) = present in triplicate; M (in col. 2) = missing; u (in col. 2) = uncoloured. Plate 81* is not mentioned in the Contents list for 1851. Artists: WJ = William Jardine, CDMS = Catherine Strickland, HJ = Helen Jardine; S = not identified. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 55 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) No. PDF Paget Year Subject Date Artist With signature In caption [some added] 1 745 1848 Turdus xanthoscelus Nov. 1847 [WT1 2 747 1848 Chrysoptilus kirkii Nov. 1847 fWJ] 3 759 1848 Ortalida nificauda [structure] 1848 4 v. 1848 Ortalida nificauda [sternum] [undated] 5 765 1848 Pericrocotus erythropygius March 1848 CDMS 6 749 1848 Muscitapa hemileucura June 1848 CDMS 7 751 1848 Heterura sylvana June 1848 CDMS 8 761 1848 Penelope cristata [structure] 1848 9 v. 1848 Penelope cristata [sternum] [undated] 10 753 1848 Scops cristata Oct. 1848 1848 CDMS 11 755 1848 Tityra siirinama Sept. 1848 1848 CDMS 12 757 1848 Timalia leucotis 1848 CDMS 13 777 1849 Drymoica mentalis Jan. 1849 14 779 1849 Drymoica ery throptera Feb. 1849 15 781 1849 Hirundo a lingular is 1848 CDMS 16 783 d 1849 Tanagra cava [oology] 1849 17 785 d 1849 Momotus gularis Oct. 1848 WJ 18 791 1849 Holocnemis neevius Jan. 1849 CDMS 19 793 1849 Ploceus personatus Oct. 1848 1848 WJ 20 795 1849 Phrygil us u tricolor May 1849 21 797 1849 Taenioptera alprina Jun. 1849 22 769 1849 Menura [structure] 1849 index 23 v. 1849 Men ura [sternum J 24 1849 Penelope/ 'Menura [structure] 25 1849 Artamus [structure] Oct. 1849 26 1849 Saxirola opistholeuca 1849 CDMS 27 1849 Nectarinia natalensis Aug. 1849 28 mm Piomis gulielmi Aug. 1849 29 ■H5 E ry tl taca fl aval ivacea 1849 CDMS 29 lanthia hyperythra 1849 Pachycephaln macrorhyncha 1849 CDMS 31 813 1849 B rack i/p teryx pol iogenis 32 815 1849 Pericrorotus mi n u tus 13 Nov. 1849 CDMS 33 1849 Cyanocorax nanus Feb. 1849 CDMS 34 E9 Phylloscopus trivirgatus Nov. 1849 CDMS 34 819 d 1849 Pycnospthys grammiceps 35 T richastoma umbratile 1849 Nov. 1849 CDMS 35 821 d 1849 T richastoma celebense 36 823 d 1849 Goldana capnstr aides Nov. 1849 CDMS 37 Ena Pachycephala Orpheus 1849 Nov. 1849 CDMS 38 wmm Nasica bridgesii 1849 Dec. 1849 CDMS 39 1849 Vulturidae [structure] 1849 Scolopax brehmi [structure] Oct. 1849 41 v. Psafopholus [structure] Oct, 1849 42 Grtis antigone [oology] Mar. 1850 43 1850 Oreotrochilus jamesonii 1850 Sir W.J. 44 847 1850 lanthia rufilata Jan. 1850 CDMS 45 849 1850 Megalaima capistratus Jan. 1850 WJ 46 v. Inca mi/sticalis Apr. 1850 Edward C. Dickinson et al. 56 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) No. PDF page* Year Subject Date Artist With signature In caption [some added] 47 v. 1850 Sypheotides bengalensis [oology] Apr. 1850 48 1850 Monasa flavirostris 1850 CDMS 49 1850 Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum 1850 CDMS 49 Euphonia bicolor Each i ipho mis r u fiven ter Apr. 1850 CDMS 51 1850 Cnlliste chrysmwta Apr. 1850 CDMS 52 1850 Corvus/Eudynamys [oology] May 1850 53 1850 Ramphastos erythrorhynchus [structure] 54 1850 Psilopogon pyrolophus [structure] 55 Trochilus allardi Jul. 1850 CDMS 56 1850 Synalaxis fhunmulatus Jul. 1850 57 1850 Lophaphorus Pucrasia [oology] May 1850 58 1850 Alcyone cyanopectus Jan. 1850 CDMS 59 Vidua paradisea [structure] Jun. 1850 1850 Ptilonopuss trophi u m 61 Tarsi per chrysaeus 11th. M ... 1850 CDMS 62 1850 Xanthornus prosthomelas Jul. 1850 CDMS 63 mm Llaenia linteata Jun. 1850 CDMS 64 Cnsarca leucoptera 1850 CDMS 65 Menura alberti 1850 66 881 1850 Ccvreba nitida Jul. 1850 CDMS 66 Paroides flammiceps 67 Notornis mantelli 1851 CDMS 68 Balaeniceps rex 1851 69 Calliste virescens/chrysophrys Oct. 1850 1850 CDMS 1851 Call is te ic terocephala / / uni per a 1851 CDMS 71 1851 Trochilus ( Thalurania ) verticeps May 1851 72 903 u 1851 T urdus aurnntiirostris 1851 HJ 73 909 1851 Chlorochrysa call iparaea/pheen ico tis 1851 CDMS 74 907 1851 Tanagrella calophrys 1851 CDMS 75 905 1851 Euphonia n igticollis/ pyrrhoph rys 1851 CDMS 76 915 d 1851 Scytalopus undula tus /alb iven tris 1851 CDMS 77 911 d 1851 Scytalopus fuscus 1838 78 913 d 1851 Scy talopus albogu la ris 1838 79 917 du 1851 Alcedo quadribrachys 1851 CDMS 80 963 1851 Trochilus ( Spathura ) melananthera 1852 81 919 d '1851' Musophaga russae Dec. 1851 CDMS 81 st 965 '1851' Synallaxis olivacens /modes tus 1852 82 931 1852 Coccyzus pumilus Jan. 1852 1852 HJ/ CDMS 83 933 1852 Nigrita bicolor Jan. 1852 1852 CDMS Edward C. Dickinson et al. 57 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) No. PDF Year Subject Date Artist page* With In caption signature [some added] 84 935 1852 Phsethon fooloevl 85 937 1852 Todirostrum granadense/ multicolor Nov. 1851 HJ /CDMS 86 939 u 1852 Ncc tar in ia alb Wen tris Dec. 1851 HJ 87 941 1852 Purus xan thogenis/spilonotus 1852 88 M. 1852 Pams rubidiven tris /melanolaphus 1852 89 943 1852 Rynchea/Metopidi us [eggs, young] 1852 CDMS 90 945 1852 Gallmla nuianogenia Jun. 1852 CDMS 91 947 1852 Pln/llornis jerdoni [nest, eggs] Nov. 1852 CDMS 92 949 1852 Leucocerca fuscoventris [nest] Nov. 1852 CDMS 93 951 u 1852 Dacnis spec iosa/cacreb icol o r 1852 1852 S & HJ 94 M. 1852 Iridosornis dulmsia 1852 CDMS 95 M. 1852 Sigmodus caniceps Mar. 1852 ? 96 953 1852 Cotinga porphifrolxma n.d. Chenu 97 961 1852 Pipra flavicapilla/py race phala n.d. Chenu 98 957 1852 P i pilops is fl avigu l a ris n.d. Chenu 99 955 1852 Arremon nn/sticaUs n.d. Oudart 100 959 1852 Pipraeidea albiventris /Pipra isidori n.d. Oudart 101 M. 1852 Euchlornis sclateri * * PI. 101 in Contents list, but CII on the plate. 1852 CDMS? SUBSTANTIATION OF OUR ISSUE PAGINATION DATA IN PART I AND CONCLUSIONS ON DATING THE ISSUES 1848 Based on Jardine's page numbering for plates we believe that the three issues in 1848 must have contained respectively pll. 1-2 (with pp. 14-1, 15-2), pll. 5-9 (with pp. 23-3, 24-4, 25-5 and 26-6), and pll. 10-12 (with pp. 60-7, 61-8, 62-9 and 63-10). From this we can be sure that pages 3-13, as well as 14-1 and 15-2, were in issue 1, but we must 'assign' the remaining pages. After p. 15-2 come two articles: the first includes pll. 3 and 4 (pp. 16-1 and an unnumbered verso that we call '[17-2]'). However, the verso of page 13 was blank. In sum. we have 16 pages or two 8-page signatures not including pp. 1 and 2 (the volume title page, which may have been planned for and supplied at year end). This appears complicated; it counts the unnumbered page, here called '[17-2]', as the verso to page 16, but logical recto-verso numbering would lead one to expect these to be odd and even, not even and odd. This perception derives from miscounting. The verso of page 13 would normally have been counted as page 14 so that the page actually numbered 14-1 should have been 15-1. The first issue would then have ended on page 18 and the next begun on 19 (which it does not). Edward C. Dickinson et al. 58 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) This leads to the question: does the article on Tapyrography' (pp. 18-14 to 22-18) belong in issue 1? This seems improbable. The final issue cannot have comprised just the four final plates and so must have included the 'Calendar' (pp. 29-59). It therefore seems best to accept that issues 1 and 2 contained only 28 pages between them and in this context Tapyrography' must be in issue 2 so that that issue comprised just 12 pages. Based on the plate dates in the 1848 volume the first issue might have appeared as early as November 1847 but it has never been suggested that it did, the second issue has a 'not before date' of June 1848, and the third has one of October 1848. 1849 Thanks to Richmond's evidence that issues 6 and 7 appeared as a double issue the six groups of plates may have been evenly spread between five normal issues and one double issue. The effect of this, in combination with tire evidence for a massive final double issue, is that issue 5 seems remarkably small, but we have not found a better approach to assigning the pages. We take as our start point our belief that the plates later numbered pll. 33-36 were accompanied by pp. '122-23' et seq. and appeared in issues 6 and 7, which must also have held pp. 130-138. Kaup's 'Monograph of tire Falconidae' is critical to an understanding of the size of the issues hr this volume. The table of contents notes a first section which began on p. '68-1', with another article beginning on p. '76-1' so that the first part of Kaup's paper ends on p. '75-8'. The table of contents also shows the second part beginning on p. '96-9' and mentions p. 122 as text for a plate, and indeed we know, from the table of contents for the 1850 volume that the last page of Kaup's article hr the 1849 volume was p. 121. So we conclude that issue 2 made up pp. 96-121. Were it not for Richmond's assertion that p. '96-9' was in this double issue we would perhaps have come to different conclusions as issue 5 must then be limited to seven plates and their text pages. However, the pagination for the double issue (pp. 96- 138) is not unreasonably large for a double issue and so perhaps our reconstruction is correct. From an examination of the work and the discovery that page 17-4 and 19-1 are recto- verso, giving a leaf which we conclude must have fallen in issue 1, we suspect that this first issue most probably extended to page 32. The 1849 list of contents tells us that not only was Kaup's paper split, but so was the 'Unpublished correspondence of Linnaeus' (pp. 27-32 and 37-40), and the 'Ornithology of Quito' (pp. 41-45 and 66-67). We conclude, after considering where the plates in the 'Illustrations of Ornithology' would fit, that pp. 37-45 must have been in issue 2 and 66-67 in a later issue. Thus, if we are correct, pages 33 to 95 must be divided between four issues, and 33 to 45, 46 to 59, 60 to 87 and 88 to 94 seem likely. These do not fit well with 8 page signatures and would have been unduly costly, so the pagination per issue is not well resolved and it must be hoped that further evidence will become available. The 'not before dates' on plates in the 1849 volume give us earliest dates of February 1849 for the first issue, June 1849 for issue 3, August 1849 for issue 4 and November 1849 for issue 5 and for the double issue 6 and 7. The November date for issue 5 hangs on whether plate 32 appeared with its relevant text (p. 94-22) or appeared later; we have assumed they appeared together but as the plate unusually bears a day date of 13 November perhaps the plate was later, in the double issue. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 59 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) Dates from 1849 text pages are October 1849 on p. 50 (which may be in issue 3), which also appears on p. 67, which, judging from the locations of the relevant plates, must be in issue 4. This suggests that these two issues appeared in October or later. Issues 6 and 7 include p. 132-3, which mentions 'Dec. 1849', this may imply that the final issue was delayed into 1850, but we have found no substantiating evidence for this. 1850 Pages 85-117 (with 118 blank) relate to the Meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh on July 30, 1850, and almost certainly cannot have appeared until August at the earliest. The pagination issue here is the use, and then the re-use with asterisks, of pages 105 and 106, This was discussed in part I and is due to the cancellation of one page and the insertion of two. Richmond's notes in the Baird copy of this work suggest that he was quite satisfied about the beginning or end of all the issues in this volume except the point at which the fifth issue stopped and the sixth began. His notes suggest two possible first pages for the sixth issue: p, 105 or p. 105*. These are in the middle of the section dealing with the Meeting of the British Association and these two pages relate, essentially, to the end of Gould's paper given earlier but mentioned there, regarding John McGillivray and HMS Rattlesnake. Since a paper on the birds of the Faeroe Islands begins on the reverse of the last page of Gould's report any split between issues around here must have forced a paper to be split between them. Prior to the cancellation the paper on the Faeroe Islands began on p. 106; after it began on p. 107. Although a split on p. 105 does not look likely it is made more so by the cancellation and we accept it in preference to the options of page 91 or page 117, which has its verso [118] blank. Both page 91 and page 105 fall within the report on the Edinburgh meeting; a choice of page 91 would imply just a single 8 page signature of text in issue 5, page 105 would imply two and a half signatures and allowing for the two inserted pages gives the same number of pages to issue 6. On p. 131 there is a description of Nasica bridgesii Eyton. The plate for this is dated December 1849 and may have been issued in 1850, however we have no evidence that the text was late and we believe the name must date from the text where there is a description (see p. 223 in the PDF on Google Books). 1851 The pagination in this volume suggests that the revised plate numbering, affecting page numbering too, allowed better cost control; the first two issues respectively use precisely 6 and 4 signatures of 8 pages. Ending issue 3 with page 104 would be consistent with using the full 8 pages of the last signature in that issue. Richmond seems to choose that cut-off although noting in the Baird copy that Eafresnaye (see below) had thought pp. 103-104 to be in issue 5 (which seems most unlikely). We are unable to put a definite date on issue 1 which contains the new name Calliste chrysophrys (text p. 24, pi. 69) although apparently Sclater (1857: 21-22) dated this from January, 1851. Because there is a history relating to the potential precedence of this name we deal with this towards the end of this paper under its own subheading. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 60 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) 1852 In the 1852 volume Richmond's data (Table I in Part I) had no question associated with his findings, but he may later have found contradictory evidence. The table of contents seems rather chaotic with anything from no plates in an issue (twice) to 5 or 6. Since Jardine's original series "Illustrations of Ornithology" does not appear in this volume the groups of plates do not offer much guidance. However, we note that pp. 29-44 (16 pages or two signatures) for issue two would cause Strickland's 'Ornithological Note VIII' to be split in half. Our own examination, showing that the verso of page 45 is blank suggests an error here by Richmond. Also, if issue 6 begins on p. 117 it does so part way through Kaup's monograph on the owls; this, however, is a 20 page paper and cutting this in two is much less unlikely and indeed we believe it was split here. THE DELAYED ISSUES If Richmond was correct as regards the 1851 volume, and issues 5 and 6 appeared together, the evidence for 1852 as the appropriate date of publication is found on p. 159 where Eyton's article is dated 1852. That this is not just a mistake is supported by mention of 'Nov. 1851' in conjunction with the authorship of the names newly proposed in pp. 151-156, and plate 81 is dated December 1851. A title page dated 1852 is also known (Richmond, note on unpublished card). Unless it can be shown that these two issues did not appear within one cover we believe 1852 must be accepted as the correct date of publication for the following taxon names: Phaethornis syrmatophora Gould, No. 5/6, p. 139 Schistes Gould, No. 5/6, p. 140 Schistes albigularis Gould, No. 5/6, p. 140 Eriopus lugens Gould, No. 5/6, p. 140 Hinindo gordoni Jar dine, No. 5/6, p. 141. Pipra flavicollis Sclater, No. 5/6, p. 143 Merulaxis fusCoides de la Fresnaye, No. 5/6, p. 149 Nectar inia hypodilus Jardine & Fraser, No. 5/6, p. p. 153 Nectarinia cyanolaemus Jardine & Fraser, No. 5/6, p. 154 Nectarinia tephrolaemus Jardine & Fraser, No. 5/6, p. 154 Bucco stellatus Jardine & Fraser, No. 5/6, p. 155 Estrelda occidentals Jardine & Fraser, No. 5/6, p. 156 Synallaxis olivacens Eyton, No. 5/6, p. 159 (text; spelled olivaceus on plate) Synallaxis modestus Eyton, No. 5/6, p. 159. The name Musophaga rossae Gould is usually cited from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London '185T, p. 93 which appeared on or soon after 7 December 1852 (Sclater, 1893). The description in the Contributions for 1851, on p. 137 (and plate 81), must surely have appeared before this, but we accept 1852 for this page, as part of the combined issues 5 and 6 for 1851, and without evidence of a date within that year 31 December 1852 should be accepted leaving the citation to the Proceedings unchanged. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 61 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) The situation as regards the 1852 volume is a little less certain. Richmond did not have a date for issue 7. Jardine (1858: pt. 2; xvi) dated an article from this issue 1852 and one might suppose that he would have known. However, there is direct evidence in the form of the date of 1853 on the title page which Lizars produced for this volume. Some corroboration can be drawn from Hartlaub (1854) who apparently received issue 7 after his cut-off date for inclusion in his 1852 round-up of publications. On the basis of these two pieces of evidence we accept 1853 for issue 7 and this should be accepted as the correct date of publication of the following names: Caprimulgus damarensis Strickland, No. 7, p. 143 Platystira albicauda Strickland, No. 7, p. 144 Enneoc tonus anderssoni Strickland, No. 7, p. 145 Erythropygia galtoni Strickland, No. 7, p. 147 Drymoecaflavida Strickland, No. 7, p. 148 Sphenoeacus pycnopygius Sclater, No. 7, p. 148 Spreo bispecularis Strickland, No. 7, p. 149 Pytelia citerior Strickland, No. 7, p. 151 Alauda erythrochlamys Strickland, No. 7, p. 151 Alauda spleniata Strickland, No. 7, p. 152 Alauda naevia Strickland, No. 7, p. 152 Nectarinia anderssoni Strickland, No. 7, p. 153 Halcyon damarensis Strickland, No. 7, p. 153 Campethera capricorni Strickland, No. 7, p. 155 Charadrius damarensis Strickland, No. 7, p. 158 Charadrius pallidus Strickland, No. 7, p. 158 Sternula balaenarum Strickland, No. 7, p. 160. The internal evidence suggests that there is a possibility that issue 6 was also published in 1853, two papers are dated October 1852, and no doubt these appeared after October but the evidence is insufficient to set aside the 1852 date. GOULD S NAMES IN THE INSERTED PAGES IN 1850 In Part I of this paper we referred to the late insertion of two pages, in fact the replacement of one leaf by two, signalled by the asterisk on two of these pages, being numbers used twice. Here Gould included descriptions of seven new taxa taken from forthcoming Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. They did not appear there until 1851 as noted by Schodde & Mason (1997: 61) and priority lies with the article in the Contributions as noted by Schodde & Mason (1999: 494) in the case of Monarcha leucotis, which was cited incorrectly by Salomonsen (1967). THE OTHER 1850 CANCELLATION AND A FORGOTTEN SYNONYM In our discussion of the content of the 1850 volume we drew attention to pages that had the same numbers but different content. The leaf concerned is 49-7 with 50-8 on the verso. Both versions were found in the set that had been the 'personal copy' of Catherine Strickland. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 62 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) In one version descriptions appear for Tachyphonus serrirostris and Calliste luteola and here the latter was said to be new and would be 'figured in a future number'. Sherborn (1927: 3725) listed Calliste luteola Sclater, and later (1930: 5915) listed Tachyphonus serrirostris Strickland; both he gave from 1850 without comment. In the other version one finds texts about Tachyphonus rufiventer Spix and Calliste chrysonota Sclater, and pll. 40 and 51 have these names as the captions. In respect of this version Sherborn (1930: 5657) recorded Tachyphonus rufiventer (Spix) for 1850 with Jardine as the author and with the notation 'cancel page', but he did not similarly list Calliste chrysonota. The presence of both copies of this page has been reported before: 'The copy of Jardine' s "Contributions to Ornithology" in the Bavarian State Library at Munich contains two sets of pages 50-58. Both have the description of a Calliste which reads the same except that in the second set of pages 50-58 the last three paragraphs are omitted. The Latin name is chrysonota on the first, luteola on the second set of pages 50-58. Whether the " luteola " page was originally issued and subsequently replaced by the more complete account of the species bearing C. chrysonota as the headline, or whether they came out simultaneously, I have no means of ascertaining. The plate, being inscribed "C. chrysonota " , seems to indicate that this was the specific name finally chosen by Sclater.' [Source: Hellmayr, 1936: 158J. Meyer de Schauensee (1957: 242) thought Hellmayr examined the set in the Bavarain State Library and missed this name, but Hellmayr was a careful bibliographer and it is unlikely he would have used '50-58' in place of 50-8, and that he would have missed another bird described on the other side of the page. Happily, Hellmayr's conclusion as to Sclater's intention is supported by Sclater (1886). Sclater (1886: 112, 213) listed the names Calliste chrysonota as validly introduced and Tachyphonus rufiventer as a new combination of Spix's Tanagra rufiventer but mentioned neither Tachyphonus serrirostris nor Calliste luteola so it would appear that the version containing the names serrirostris and luteola was the cancellandum (the original now cancelled) and that when Sherborn referred to Tachyphonus rufiventer as appearing on the cancel page be was referring to what is today called the cancel Ians (the replacement page); and, that Calliste chrysonota which should have appeared in Sherborn (1925: 1264) was omitted there. Neither the name Calliste luteola nor Calliste chrysonota appears in Storer (1970) although mention is made, on p. 291, of "Tachyphonus serrirostris Strickl." with a reference to Stone (1899) and indeed the specimen that Strickland named is listed as a type in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, but there is no mention in Stone of the Calliste. It fell to Meyer de Schauensee (1957) to explain both. He considered the Calliste name a junior synonym of Tangara cyana [error for cay an a \ (Linnaeus, 1766) and, as he expected, the type is in Tring (Warren & Harrison, 1971: 110, 313), but Storer (1970) did not list the synonym. Meyer de Schauensee (op. cit.) noted that the name serrirostris was not a manuscript name and commented on its introduction; as he wrote, in the cancellans Jardine said he had not realised until tire plate was done that Spix (1825) had named and depicted the species, so presumably Strickland had been consulted by Jardine and had provided a name and a description. Curiously the Bavarian State Library has the Highley re-issue (Tobias Fendt pers. comm., 14.01.2010) and one can only suppose that the inclusion of a cancellans in the stock acquired for the Highley re-issue was simply overlooked at the time; this may be the only copy to have accidentally included tire cancellans. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 63 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) ACCEPTED PRECEDENCE REVISITED Calliste chrysophrys Sclater versus Callispiza guttata Cabanis The name C[allispiza]. guttata is introduced by Cabanis, '1850-51', in volume 1 of Museum Heineanum on page 26. Storer (1970: 370 fn) considered that advance sheets of Museum Heineanum (Cabanis, 1851) 'had appeared' by October, 1850 and that the name guttata had clear 'priority' over Calliste chrysophrys Sclater, 1851. As reported by Storer (1970: 371 fn), and more completely by Zimmer (1926: 122), these advance sheets (pp. 1-32) were 'in circulation in Germany in the latter part of the year 1850' as published by Sclater (1857: 39-40). Sclatehs taxon is subspecifically distinct from nominate Tangara guttata and we assume that Sclater did not place his own name chrysophrys in synonymy but he clearly accepted the precedence of the name guttata. Thus he (in our view), and if not him Storer (1970) or some writer between 1857 and 1970, acted as First Reviser under Art. 24.2.2 of The International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999), hereafter called 'the Code'. Recently Quaisser & Nicolai (2006) decided that this entire volume of Museum Heineanum, was best dated from 1851, and considered that advance sheets might well have been proof sheets and that those do not advance the date of publication. They felt that 1851 should be used in accordance with the Code (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999) until evidence showed that the 'advance sheets' were genuine distributions rather than the sharing of proofs between scientists sharing their understanding of the same taxa. It should be noted (i) that the Code (Art. 21) requires the 1850-51 'range date', lacking any more precision, to be dated 31 December 1851; (ii) that there is an Introduction dated October 1851 and (iii) that the dates in the signature space are most probably dates of printing: no signature dates appear on signatures 1 to 4 (pp. 1-32) and, in fact, the first dated signature begins on p. 113 and is dated 'Februar 1851'. However, the conclusion of Quaisser & Nicolai makes it very desirable to find records of formal publication of the volume, in parts if it did indeed appear in parts, and that task awaits attention. Meanwhile, in this case use of 31 December 1851 for Cabanis's name, would reverse precedence where that precedence has been accepted for at least 40 years and at least conceded for over 150 years. And this may, incidentally, not be the only case where precedence is assigned to a name in this volume of the Museum Heineanum on similar grounds. The Code, in Art. 24.2.5 provides for the nullification of an act by a First Reviser that was 'unnecessary'. Here however a selection was seen as necessary and as we still cannot objectively determine precedence with any certainty we still believe it was necessary. So, while we accept the views of Quaisser & Nicolai (2006), we choose to maintain stability by considering that both names should be dated from 1851, and that precedence in this case continue to be assigned to the name guttata because we do not believe the selection made by the First Reviser should be overturned on the limited evidence available. Thus we choose to accept that there will have been a formal distribution part by part and based on the signature date (and probable date of printing) on page 113 we select 1 January 1851 as the date to be used for pp. 1-32. And since Sclater (1857: 21-22) dated part 1 of the Contributions for 1851 from January we follow him and date that from January 31. We thus recommend continued acceptance of Tangara guttata (Cabanis) as the specific name for a species which includes T. g. chrysophrys (Sclater) as a subspecies, the arrangement accepted and explained by Storer. Edward C. Dickinson et al. 64 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) MAIN CONCLUSIONS We concur with Richmond (1992) in dating the double issue 5/6 of the 1851 volume from late 1852, and we accept 1853 for issue 7 of the 1852 volume based on the Lizars title page. There is still insufficient information to allow any issue to be dated to the month, so we hope others will follow up on this. A more extensive search of contemporary literary reviews might contain further clues and we suggest that any future researcher consider, for example, Bent's Monthly Literary Advertiser and The Athenaeum which we have not been able to consult. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We have had, and have greatly appreciated, a huge amount of help from the community of librarians and most of those listed here are librarians. We thank Jane Acred, Rupert Baker, Rachel Beasley, Lynda Brooks, Clair Castle, David Clugston, Paul Cooper, Normand David, Lisa Di Tommaso, Diana Duncan, Tobias Fendt, Dana Fisher, Michelle Gait, James Godwin, Steven Gregory, Ana Guimaraes, Alison Harding, James Flatton, Barbara Hawes, Ann Henderson, Janet Hinshaw, Gregory Houston, Andrew Isles, Kristian Jensen, Ruth Jones, Alan Knox, Leone Lemner, Michele Lenoir, Eleanor Maclean, Judith Magee, Ellinor Mathias, Prue McDonald, Bob McGowan, Anne Mouron, Zilla Oddy, Storrs Olson, Sally Pagan, Michael Palmer, Didier Partouche, Hellen Pethers, Alison Pirie, Lorraine Portch, Mai Qaraman, Fran^oise Romagne, Andrew Sargeant, Brian Schmidt, Mathew Searle, Nicholas Smith, Jacalyn Spoon, Ann Sylph and Sophie Wilcox for their help with access to sets discussed or with our illustrations or for information about Jardine. 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Lyal 67 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) The dating of the Biologia Centrali-Americana Christopher H. C. Lyal COPYRIGHT: © 2011 Lyal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT: The Zoological volumes of the Biologia Centrali-Americana (BCA) were published in 217 numbered parts between 1879 and 1915. The Wrappers of these Parts provide evidence to date all pages, including Plates, which have no other means of dating. Titles used for the content in the Parts do not always agree with the titles given to the final volumes. Some pages were published twice on different dates; in Coleoptera Vol. VI Part 1 this republication included several different ranks applied to family-group names, and one change of species name spelling. KEYWORDS: Biologia Centrali-Americana, dating publication. INTRODUCTION The Biologia Centrali-Americana (BCA) is a vast compilation of the Zoology, Botany and Archaeology of Meso- America, privately issued in Parts between 1879 and 1915 by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin. The final work comprises 63 volumes, and includes descriptions of 50,263 species, of which 19,263 were new to science (Anon, 1918). For most of the zoological groups at least there has been nothing equivalent published since. The Parts were sold on a subscription basis, and each contained pages of one or more final volumes; subscribers would build up the full set over time. This resulted in all of the volumes appearing over a considerable period, one page perhaps appearing months or years after the preceding page, even when both carried components of the same description. Moreover, the plates carrying illustrations of the species were issued in the same manner, but unlike the text pages do not carry dates. In a few cases the plates and the text carry different names for the same new species, and dating of the plates is consequently important to clarify priority and also, for species where the name is the same, the precise first date of publication. Most copies of the BCA found in libraries now were bound without the Wrappers from the Parts. However, a set of Wrappers has been preserved in the libraries of the Natural History Museum, London. These list the contents of each Part (Figure 1), allowing for the first time a comprehensive review of the dates of all Zoological pages and Plates. Each Wrapper has a printed month and year. Some of the dates of publication have been published in the past for particular groups (Evenhuis, 1997 for the Parts containing Diptera signatures; Adler, 1987 for the Parts containing Reptilia and Batrachia signatures), but most have not been published after the original appearance. While each wrapper bears a printed date many also have the date when they were received (or perhaps in at least some cases accessed into the collection) by the Natural History Museum (then 'British Museum (Natural History)') Library written or stamped on them. Evenhuis (1997) gave these dates for wrappers of parts containing Diptera held in the NHM; all are provided here in Table 1. in almost all cases where the date has been added to the wrapper it is of the month of issue or the following month, although in a few cases it is several months later. Christopher H. C. Lyal 68 Zoological Bibliography 2011 1(2) t I L 0 ( CENTRALI-AMERICANA: W*# PAST LXXX. IKOVEMBES XS89. BIOLOGIA f®3 a CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OP THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF - . MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. EDITED BY F, HUGAAE GODMAN AND OSBERT SALVTN. ZOOLOGY. CONTENTS. ARACHNID A ARANEIDEA, By O. PjOoaao Cambkiu^e. (Pp. 41-43, pi. iv.) COLEOFTERA. Vr>l. III. part 1. By U. O. Waterhouse. (Pp. 145-168, pis. tIL. dHO „ VoR V],. part 1. Supplement, By M. Ja