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TuRDUS NUDiGENis Lafrcsnayc. 



Turdus nudujenis Lafresnaye, Rev. zool., 1848 (January), p. 4 

 (Caracas, Venezuela). 



Type.— M.C. Z. 76,501, Lafr. coll. 3,551. 



Turdus gymnophthahms Cabanis, Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, 

 1848 (= 1849?) 3, p. 665 (British Guiana). 



Turdus niuligcnis Lafresnaye certainly has priority over Turdus 

 gymnophthalmus Cabanis, even though the numbers of the Revue 

 zoologique may not have been issued in the months of which they 

 bear the dates. Hartlaub (Archiv. naturgesch., 1850, 2, p. 51) includes 

 Schomburgk's Reisen in his "Bericht iiber die vogel wahrend des 

 Jahres 1849." We find also that the volmue in ciuestion contains a 

 third list of subscribers which we have every reason to believe was 

 made out after the second list appearing in the second volume, which 

 is dated "bis ende Februar 1848." 



Dr. Chas. W. Riclmiond writes (in lift.) that the third vohmie of 

 Schomburgk was probably published early in 1849. 



Turdus rufopalliatus Lafresnaye. 



Turdus rofopalliatus Lafresnaye, Rev. zool., 1840, p. 259 ("Monte- 

 rey en Californie," — error, we substitute Acapulco, Southwestern 

 Mexico). 



Type — M. C. Z. 76,520, Lafr. coll. 3,568. 



Merula flavirostris (not Turdus flavirosfris Horsfield, 1821) Swain- 

 son, Philos. mag., 1827, new ser., 1, p. 369 (Temascaltepec, Mexico). 



This bird was collected by Leclancher on the voyage of the Venus. 

 The expedition stopped at Monterey, California, but the specimen 

 was probably not taken there. The name Turdus rufopalliatus, to 

 replace Merida flaiyirostris Swainson, must be used by all ornithologists 

 who, like ourselves, unite Planesticus and Turdus. 



CossYPHA NivEiCAPiLLA niveicapilla (Lafresnaye). 



Turdus niveicapillus Lafresnaye, Mem. Soc. acad. Falaise. Essai 

 nouv. man., 1838, p. 16 (Senegal). 



Type — M. C. Z. 76,465, Lafr. coll. 3,938. 



Cossypha verticalis Hartlaub, Verz. Hamb., 1850, p. 23. 



