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Page 16 : Species 84. Pujfinus irecicaitdus Gould 

 replnces /'. tt'nuii-os(ris Temrainck. 

 „ 21 : Species 120. Sterna striata Gmelin, S//s(. Sat. XIIIlL EJ. p. 6U9 (1789) 

 replaces Sterna frontalis Graj'. 



This is a change that should have been made long .ago, and I now find that 

 Sharpe {Hist. Coll. B. M. vol. ii. p. ~'U4, I'JUG), from a stuily of Ellis's drawings, 

 has already pointed out its necessity. 



Page 21 : Genns LXXII. Me<jaloj>l,'ruti Boio, l.-<is p. 1)60 (182G) 

 replaces Micranoiis Saunders. 



In the his p. 980 (1826) Bois introduced his new gvuus thus : — 



Mt-galojjterus tenutrosfris Tern. col. 202, u.s.w. 



Saunders iu the Cat. i>/;-rfsxsv.p. 130, iJS'JO, placed this genus in the synonymy 

 of Ano'is, stating Megulopterus Boie, Ms p. 980, 1826, cf. id. op. cit. 1844, 

 jip. lST-8 — type -I. stoliihis ; and in the synonymy of A. stolidns (p. 137) gave 

 Megalopterus temtirostris Boie, I sis p. 980, ls20 (nee Temm., cf. Boie, Isis pp. 187-8, 

 1844). 



But in the his (1844), at the quotation made, Boie only referred his Megalo- 

 pterus to the synonymy of Anoiis (Leach) Steph. (1825), on the score of priority, 

 usinsr both genera with their wide signiticaliuus. Boie also identified teitnirostris 

 Tern., PI. col. 202, with St. senex Leach. That action had no elfect either upon the 

 generic status of Megalopterus nor the specific of teiiuirostris Tem., PI. col. 202. If 

 Temminck's species were valid, and if ever generically separable, no oilier lonrso 

 Avas open save the adoption of Boie's name. This was made absolute by Gray, 

 who, in his List Genera Birds p. 79, 1840, included Megalopterus Boie (type) 

 M. tenuirostris Temminck, PI. col. 202. Yet in the Bull. B. 0. C. No. x.^iii. 

 p. six, 1895, Saunders proposed a new genus Micranous for Sterna tenuirostris 

 Temminck. In the Cat. Birds Saunders retained his own genus, dealing with 

 Megalopterus Boie as stated above, and as the introduction of tenuirostris gave 

 PI. col. 202. 



Page 23 : Genus LXXXI. I.ohihjx Heine, Xomeiicl. Mus. Bei/i. p. 334, 1890 

 replaces Lobicanellus ncc Strickland. 



Strickland, in Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 32, 1841, proposed Sarciop/iorus 

 for three birds, the first- named being pileutus Gmelin. On p. 33 he introduced 

 Lobicanellus, to which he referred nine species, the first of which was yoensis 

 (Jmelin. The same year Gray in his 2nd Edition of his List Genera Birds included 

 these two genera Q). 64), and designated as tyjies the first-named species in each 

 case. 



In his Sat. Sgst. Viigel p. xviii, I6.j2, Rcichenbach made a new disposition 

 thus :^ 



Lobicanellus. Tyi)e /.. lobatus Latham. 



Sarciop/iorus. „ S. pectoralis; and jiroposed 



Sarcogrammus. „ 'S'. goensis Gmelin. 



Of course these designations are invalid owing to the piior action of Gray, 

 but in the ( 'at. Birds xxiv. Heichenbach has been I'ollowed with regard to Lobicanellus 

 and Sarcogrammus, though the error was noted when dealing with Sarciop/iorus. 

 (Jonseijuently Lobibgx of Heine must be used for Lobivanellus of the Cat. Birds, 

 and Lobicanellus will be the name of the genus there called Sarcogrammus. 



