NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE

In identifying the zoological species described in this volume I am indebted for aid to my friend and colleague Mr. J. T. Saunders, who has gone through the whole and given me the modern equivalents of the Latin names; although he warns me that in a good many cases the identification is doubtful.

There are consequently some discrepancies between the nomenclature in the translation here and that used in Book I, the Table of Contents. Pliny presumably compiled it after completing the rest of the work; but as editorial exigencies precluded the postponement of Volume I of this translation till the others were finished, I had to be content, for Book I, with the renderings given in Lewis and Short or in Bostock and Riley's translation.