Excerpt from A List of the Genera of Birds: With an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus, Compiled From Various Sources So far has this desire of introducing new names been carried, that many Ornithologists are in the constant habit of changing ge neric names, even when accompanied by characters, if the slightest modification is made in the circumscription of the group to which they are applied, or even if the characters do not tally with their own idea of sufficiency. Thus, an author will not hesitate to state, ...
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Excerpt from A List of the Genera of Birds: With an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus, Compiled From Various Sources So far has this desire of introducing new names been carried, that many Ornithologists are in the constant habit of changing ge neric names, even when accompanied by characters, if the slightest modification is made in the circumscription of the group to which they are applied, or even if the characters do not tally with their own idea of sufficiency. Thus, an author will not hesitate to state, that he cannot adopt the genera of certain Ornithologists, because they are not what he is disposed to consider natural divisions; he therefore proposes his own divisions, and designates them by his own names. But it is curious in such cases to compare the natu ral with the unnatural divisions; and to observe, in the great majority of instances, how nearly they coincide with each other. The inutility, or worse, of coining new generic names in such cases is obvious to all except the coiner himself, who may perhaps fancy that he is increasing the stock of knowledge, while he is only overloading the memory with synonymous terms. Such uncalled for changes must necessarily prove detrimental to the progress of science, the advancement of which is supposed to be aimed at by every systematist, although too many of them are apt to forget this true end, and to think only of the means of elevating them selves at the expense of their predecessors and of the unhappy student, who becomes bewildered in the choice among so many different systems, each carefully shrouded in the veil of its own no menclature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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