Vol. 31, pp. 125-126 November 29, 1918 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 





MUTANDA ORNITHOLOGICA. 

 IV. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 





This paper continues* the writer's comments on nomencla- 

 torial alterations in the name of birds. Following are notes on 

 the names of several species of euphonias. 



Family TANAGRIDAE. 



Euphonia vittata Sclater. 



By the change of the generic term Euphonia to Tanagra, and the 

 consequent alteration in the nomenclature of all the species in this 

 group, the current names of several species and subspecies become 

 untenable. By this transference to the genus Tanagra, the Euphonia 

 vittata of Sclatert becomes preoccupied by Tanagra vittata Temminckt, 

 a synonym of Plpraeidea melanonota (Vieillot). As Euphonia vittata 

 Sclater has apparently received no other name, it may be called Tanagra 

 catasticta, nom. nov. 



Euphonia aurea pileata Berlepsch. 



When Euphonia aurea pileata Berlepsch § becomes Tanagra aurea 

 pileata (Berlepsch), it is ineligible for use on account of Tanagra pileata 

 Gmelin|| and Tanagra pileata BoddaertH, both of which refer to the 

 species now called Nemosia pileata. Since Euphonia aurea pileata Ber- 

 lepsch has received no other name, it is necessary now to rechristen it, 



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

 75-76; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXX, July 27, 1917, pp. 12.5-126; and Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash., XXXI, May 16. 1918. pp. 47-49. 



t Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, p. 129 (Brazil). 



tNouv. Rec. Planch. Col. d'Ois., Ill, livr. 8, March, 1821, pi. XLVIII and text 

 (Brazil). 



$Verh. V Internat. Ornith. Kongr. Berlin, 1910 (1911), p. 1014 (Quiribana de 

 Caicara, Orinoco region, Venezuela). 



II Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, p. 898 (Guiana and Brazil). 



ITTabl. Planch. Enlum. d'Hist. Nat., 1783, p. 45 (Cayenne). 



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