A List of the Genera of Birds: With Their Synonyma, and an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The basis of the impartial nomenclature which I wish to adopt and establish among Naturalists, is the same that was employed by the late Mr. Vigors in drawing up his list of genera, and one which Mr. Swainson terms the inflexible law of priority. It has the merit, says Mr. Strickland, of being the only one which is just, as it preserves and honours the terms employed by original discoverers in preference to those introduced by later critics; and it also has the advantage of reminding us of the date at which any species was discovered or group defined. This law may, however, cause the use - as Mr. Strickland also remarks - of words which are certainly barbarous in their formation and devoid of euphony; but the adop tion of the first word given must occasion the employment of a much more correct nomenclature than one with the words selected for their superior euphony of sound or applicability of meaning. If systems were established on this latter rule, they must inevitably vary with the tastes and caprices of men.
But my object is not to criticise the words which by this law of priority ought to be employed, but strictly to exemplify the mode in which the species of birds have been from time to time divided into genera by different writers since the first edition of the Systema Naturae in 1735 and at the same time to indicate as far as possible those genera which are synonymous with others that had been pre viously proposed, and thus to give to Ornithologists a correct systematic list of the numerous names employed. This has been a work of patient and laborious research, undertaken in the hope that it might be the means of the establishment of a uniform and permanent language, to quote again the words of Mr. Strickland, among Naturalists of all nations.
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