306 REMARKS ON ORNITHOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



(Bomhycilla Bohemica,) European dipper, (Cinclus Europeus ;) and, 

 4th, naming after individuals, such as Richarcts pipit, {Anthus 

 Richardi,) Bullock's petrel, {Procellaria Bullockii,) &c. &c. The 

 objections to all these modes of naming are too obvious to need 

 pointing out here. In a future paper I may enlarge more on this 

 subject, but I shall now give a few more comments on Selby's 

 nomenclature. We left otF at the fern nightjar, {Vociferator Euro- 

 peus, N. Wood }) (F. melolontha, mihi.) To the Lanius excuhitor, 

 of Linnaeus, {L. cinereus, Willughby,) he gives two specific names, 

 "great," and " cinereous," which should never be done. And to 

 the L. Tufus he gives the generic name, chat — a name which 

 belongs to a very different genus, {Rubetra, Blyth.) One of the 

 thrushes he calls 50«g thrush, {Turdus musicus,) but as the whole 

 genus is so musical, it seems invidious to call one of them by that 

 name j I therefore propose garden thrush, {Tardus hortensis, mihi.) 

 The Merula vulgaris, Ray, and M, torquata, Will., I would put into 

 another genus, calling one the yellow-billed ouzel, and the other 

 the ring ouzel. The robin redbreast he calls Erythaca rubecula j 

 but I should prefer taking Willughby's generic term Rubecula, and 

 Blyth's specific one j thus it would be called Rubecula famiUaris,* 

 Blyth. The sedge reedling {Salicaria phragmitis, Selby,) he calls 

 sedge warbler, and the marsh reedling, (S. arundinacea, Selby,) he 

 calls reed wren, thus giving different generic names (and both, by 

 the way, wrong,) to the same genus. To the fauvets {Ficedula, 

 Blyth,) he gives three generic names. The Melizophilus provincia- 

 lis he calls Dartford warbler, although the bird has very small 

 resemblance to the genus sylvia. I should call it the whinbrake 

 red-eye. Two of the warblers he calls wrens, but he might as well 

 have called them larks at once, for they have as little resemblance 

 to Anorthura as to Alauda. The Regulus auricapillus he calls 

 gold-crested regulus, but I think it would be better to translate the 

 term, and to call the bird gold-crested kinglet. The American 

 species, the (Regulus carbunculus of Buonaparte,) (Regulus Cuvierii, 

 of Audubon,) might be named the carbuncle kinglet. Another 

 American species, (Regulus tricolor, of Nutall,) might be named 

 the tricolored kinglet. 1 first proposed the name kinglet, in 

 "Loudon's Magazine of Natural History," for February, 1835, 

 (vol. viii., p. 110.) Selby most unaccountably leaves the Calarno- 

 philus biarmicus. Leach, in the genus tit, (Parus.) I would call it 

 the bearded pinnoc. Neither should the Accentor alpinus, of Bech- 

 stein, be left in the genus dunnoc, (Accentor •) I would call it the 

 Alpine stare, (Curruca alpina.) By some ornithologists it is called 

 a starling, (Sturnus,) but this is incorrect. For the pied wagtail, 1 

 have formerly proposed Motacilla maculosa. The Anthus Richardi 



* This name was proposed by Mr. Blyth in vol. 1 of the Field Nat. Ma^. Long 

 before I had ever seen that work, I had given the name myself, and meant to have 

 proposed it soon to the scientific world, when I found that I had happily been fore- 

 stalled by that intelligent writer, I, however, entirely disagree with him in thinking 

 that the redstarts (Rutidlla, Will.,) ought to be in the sa^rae genus as the redbreasts 

 (Rubecula, Will.) 



