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THOSE who study or refer to the more recent volumes of the Ibis will welcome the successful completion and issue of the third index of genera and species referred to, and an index to the plates. This covers the seventh, eighth, and ninth series, or eighteen volumes, and saves a tedious reference to a corresponding number of separate indexes. The two previous indexes, each covering fifteen years, published in 1879 and 1897 respectively, contained 431 and 471 pages. The present volume contains 513. This increase is chiefly caused by the adoption of the trinomial system of nomenclature, which necessitates three references to each bird mentioned under its generic, specific, and subspecific names respectively. The compilation of this great index was entrusted by the committee of the British Ornithologists' Union to Mr. Henry Peavot and Mr. Thomas Wells, and they are to be congratulated upon the able manner in which they have carried out their laborious task. The general supervision of the work, as well as the reading of the proof-sheets, a toilsome and tedious business, was undertaken by Mr. W. L. Sclater, the editor of the Ibis. The list of plates occupies eleven pages, showing that the later series of the Ibis have been well illustrated, though the coloured portraits of species may be relatively fewer than in the earlier volumes.
Index of Genera and Species referred to, and an Index to the Plates in The Ibis (seventh, eighth, and ninth series), 1895-1912.
Edited by William Lutley Sclater. Pp. 513. (British Ornithologists' Union: sold by W. Wesley and Son, 1916.) Price 1l. 12s. 6d.
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Index of Genera and Species referred to, and an Index to the Plates in The Ibis (seventh, eighth, and ninth series), 1895-1912. Nature 99, 4 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099004b0
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