Vol. 31, pp. 47-50 May 16, 1918 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 





MUTANDA ORNITHOLOGICA. 

 III. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



The present paper is the third* in the writer's series of arti- 

 cles concerning nomenclatorial changes in the names of birds. 

 This treats of some alterations in specific terms in the families 

 Haematopodidae, Scolopacidae, Loriidae, Treronidae, and Co- 

 lumbidae. 



Family HAEMATOPODIDAE. 

 Haematopus quoyi Brabourne and Chubb. 



Messrs. Brabourne and Chubb have recently given the name Haematopus 

 quoyij to the bird from the Falkland Islands previously described by 

 Sharpei as Haematopus ater. There is, however, an earlier and certainly 

 pertinent name in Hoematopus toumsendi Audubon, § based on a specimen 

 supposedly from the mouth of the Columbia River, but which doubtless 

 came, as did others of Audubon's specimens, from South America. In 

 view of this, w T e designate the Falkland Islands as its type locality. The 

 name for this species should, therefore, now become Haematopus townsendi 

 Audubon. 



Family SCOLOPACIDAE. 

 Totanus fuscus (Linnaeus). 



The spotted redshank of Europe is now called Totanus fuscus, from 

 Scolopax fusca Linnaeus. II This name, however, is preoccupied by Scolopax 



•For the two previous papers, cf. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXX, March 31, 1917, pp. 

 75-76; and Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXX, July 27, 1917, pp 125-126. 



T Birds South Amer., I, December, 1912, p. 37. 



tCat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, p. 121. 



$Birds Amer., folio ed., IV, 1838, pi. 427, fig. 2 ("mouth of the Columbia River, 

 Oregon."). 



llSyst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, p. 243 (Europe). 



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