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Page 102 : Genus CCCXX. Stizoptera Oberholser, Pror. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pkilad. 

 p. 215 (1899) 

 replaces Stictopfera Reichenbach, preoccupied by (iueiu'o, Hist. 2\at. 

 Insect. Lcpid. vii. p. 51 (1852). 

 „ 105: Genus CCCXXXI. Calornis is preoccupied, as Mr. Oberholser has 

 pointed out {Froc'Acad.Nat. Sri. Phihil. p.215, ls99), and he has 

 proposed to use as substitute Lamprocorax Bonai)arte. In this 

 lie lias been followed in the Ilnndlist Birds Brit. Miis. v. p. 529, 

 but I cannot see that there are characteri* to generically separate 

 this group from Aplonis Gould, and I propose to use that 

 generic name for species 856. 

 „ 107 : Species 874. Corvus marianae nom. nov. 



rephices C. australis Gould (not C. uiisfralis Gmelin, Sij-^t. Nat. 

 p. 377, 1788, nor Bechstein, Latham's Voyel, iv. p. 725, 1793). 



There are no characters of generic value to separate the species of Corona 

 Kaup from species of Cordis Linne, and consequently the three Australian species 

 are all referable to the latter genus. 



The following note regarding the nomenclature of the Whcatears and Chats 

 seems to be of sufficient importance to be recorded. 



Saxicola Bechstein, Ornith. Taschenb. i. p. 216 (1802)— type (by subs, desig. 

 Swainson, 1827), 



S. rubicola = Motacilla ruhicola Linn6 



must be used for the Chats ; and 



Oemnthe Vieillot, Analyse p. 43 (1816)— type (by tautonymy), 

 Oe. oenanthe = Motacilla oenantke Linn6 

 for the Wheatears. 



In the Ornitli. Taschenb. i. p. 216 (1802) Bechstein introduced Sa.r/cola, and 

 included therein Motacilla oenanthe L., .1/. rubicola Linne, and .1/. rubetra Linne. 

 No type was designated, but his figured species was Saxicola rubicola. 



Vieillot {Anali/se, p. 43, 1816) proposed Oenanthe, and mentioned as species 

 Motteux Bnff. (= ifotacilla oenanthe Linne) and Tardus leucurus Latham. 

 These two are congeneric, and the type by tautonymy is M. oenanthe Linne. In 

 the Stjst. baier. Zool. p. xxxr, 1810, Koch included in Saxicola several spe(,ues — 

 viz. Tardus saxatilis Gm., Mot. tithi/s Linne, Mot. phoenicurus Linne, Mot. suecica 

 Linnd, and Mot. oenanthe Linne, and then provided for Mot. rubetra Linn6 and 

 Mot. rubicola Linn5 the new genus Pratincola. 



Strictly speaking, Koch's action cannot be construed as simple subdivision of 

 Bechsteiu's genas, and Vieillot's action in naming generically the Wheatears alone 

 would leave the Chats to bear Bechsteiu's generic name of Saxicola. Thus actually 

 by elimination we arrive at the results I have given above. 



Forster {Sijn. Cat, Brit. Birds, \). 15, lsl7) also gave a generic name to the 

 Wheatears, taking up Vitijiora, and including the Chats in Curruca with the Robins 

 and others. At p. 54, however, he placed the Chats {rubicola and rubetra) alone in 

 Saxicola and preferred Oenanthe for the Wheatear, while the same year Stej)hens 

 (in Shaw's den. Zool. vol. .\. pi. ii. p. 504) also accepted Vitl/tora without including 

 the Chats, 



