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THE evil practice of issuing antedated periodicals has long been a matter of complaint amongst naturalists. The editor of the Journal für Ornithologie is a well-known sinner in this respect—the quarterly number of that journal, although invariably dated on the first day of each quarter, being always several months in arrear. But a still more flagrant instance of this practice is now before me in the third number of the new edition of Layard's “Birds of South Africa,” which, although only issued to the subscribers within these last few days, is dated on the cover “May, 1875 !” As two new genera (Aëthocichla and Neocichla) are instituted herein, the result is to give these names an unjust priority of fifteen months over what they are legally entitled to. This seems to be a still easier method of gaining precedence than the American, practice of publishing telegraphic bulletins of new discoveries, and will not, I trust, be persevered in, if attention is called to it.
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S., F. Antedated Books. Nature 14, 309 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014309a0
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