WCP4212

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Nov[embe]^r 27^th1890

My dear Mr. Cockerell,

Thanks for your notes rec[eive]^d yesterday. I will return all those I do not use.

When I wrote "Island Life" there was no book or catalogue on Lizards newer than Dr. Grays old B.M Cat.[alogue] and now no doubt all names & classifications are different. I have begun reading the earlier chapters, & send on [the] other side a few queries which you will perhaps be to answer from the books you are consulting. Just note the answers as you may happen to come across [2] them. I will send more as they occur to me.

Yours very truly │Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[3] Queries for "Island Life"¹

p.16. Loddigesia mirabilis. Have many been obtained since?

21. Jays — any new facts of distribution

25. Eupetes — Are there 2 or 3 species New Guinea.

26. Centetidae, Octodontidae, Echimyidae — do any alterations of classification etc. affect their statements.

27. Snakes, Lizards etc. — any alterations here.

35-37. Any corrections in these lists of ranges of British Birds. Seebohm³ could give this easily.

41. Peculiar genera of Palaearctic Birds[.] Any alterations of classification affecting this.

41. Do. Of Snakes, Lizards, Amphibia.

Please give answers which will involve minimum alteration of text.