80 General Notes. 



1. Ta7i[agra]. flammiceps Wied = Phoenicothraupis rubica (Vieillot). 



2. "T[anagra]. superciliosa" = pTohah\y Tanagra superciliaris Spix ( = 



Saltator caerulescens Vieillot). 



3. [Tanagra] psittacina Spix = Pitylus fuliginosus (Daudin). 



4. [Ta7iagra] atricollis Spix = Saliator atricollis Vieillot. 



Since the type of Habia Blyth (1840) has, so far as we are aware, not yet 

 been formally selected, we propose to designate as such the first species 

 mentioned, Tanagra flammiceps Wied, a species now referred to the genus 

 Phoenicothraupis as a synonym of Phoenicothraupis rubica Vieillot. 



This generic name Habia Blyth might appear to be preoccupied by Abia 

 Leach, used for a genus of Hymenoptera; but the two words are without 

 doubt etymologically distinct, since Abia is formed from two Greek words 

 — o primitive, and ^la; while Habia is a native name evidently taken 

 from Azara. Furthermore, Abia Agassiz (Index Universalis, 1846, p. 170), 

 is an emendation of the vernacular name Habia Lesson (Traits d'Ornith., 

 1831, p. 464), thus evidently of the same Greek origin as Agassiz cites 

 for Abia Leach, and being several years posterior, has no bearing on the 

 availability of Habia Blyth. The Habia of Blyth is, therefore, to be con- 

 sidered an independent generic name on the same principle that Pica is now 

 held to be different from Picus. This being the case, the generic name Habia 

 Blyth 1840 must take the place of Phoenicothraupis Cabanis (Museum 

 Heineanum, I, 1851, after October 23, p. 24; type by subsequent designa- 

 tion of Gray (Cat. Gen. and Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus., 1855, p. 72), Saltator 

 rubicus Vieillot). 



The species heretofore included in Phoenicothraupis will therefore stand 

 "as follows: 



Habia rubica rubica (Vieillot) 



Habia rubica amabilis (Berlepsch) 



Habia rubica vinacea (Lawrence) 



Habia rubica confinis (Bangs) 



Habia rubica rubicoides (Lafresnaye) 



Habia rubica nelsoni (Ridgway) 



Habia rubica affinis (Nelson) 



Habia rubica rosea (Nelson) 



Habia alfaroana (Ridgway) 



Habia rubra rubra (Vieillot) 



Habia rubra peruviana (Taczanowski) 



Habia rubra rhodinolaema (Salvin and Godman) 



Habia salvini salvini (Berlepsch) 



Habia salvini littoralis (Nelson) 



Habia salvini discolor (Ridgway) 



Habia salvini peninsularis (Ridgway) 



Habia salvini insularis (Salvin) 



Habia fuscicauda (Cabanis) 



Habia cristata (Lawrence) 



Habia gutturalis (Sclater). 



— Harry C. Oberholser. 



