JToniATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 36l 



THE RIGHT NAME OF THE FANTAIL RAVEN. 



This species must be called Corvus hrachyrhynchos Brehm. C . affinis Riipp., 

 the name under which it has hitherto been known, is preoccupied by Corvus 

 afjinis Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. 2, p. 381 (1809 = Monasa nigra, Cayenne. 

 Cf. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xLx. p. 203). 



Mathews, List B. Aiistr. p. 311 (1913), quotes " Bechstein 1811 " in error. 

 Mr. Iredale called my attention to the correct first reference to C. affinis, as duly 

 stated by Sclater in the Cat. B. xix. 



Unfortunately Corvus brachyurus A. E. Brehm is preoccupied by Corvus 

 hrachyurus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. i. p. 158, 1766 (Moluccas). 



This Ls another name of a type in the Brehm Collection, which must stand. 

 Cf. antea, p. 7. 



THE CORRECT NAME OF THE INDIAN BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE. 



This species has hitherto been called Oriolus melanocephalus, but must in 

 future be named Oriolus luteolus. 



In 1758, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. i. p. 167, called it Sturnus Luteolus, 

 taking his name from Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iv. p. 186, pi. 186, where we find a 

 good figure and description of the female of the Indian Black-headed Oriole 

 from " Bengal," which he saw " in the collection of the late Mr. Dandridge." 

 Edwards and Lmnaeus both also quote as a synonym the " Pica Maderaspatana 

 sturni ad instar maculata " of Rajus, 8yn. Meth. Av. p. 195, pi. i. fig. 7 (not 

 plate ii. as Edwards quotes). Edwards also cites and duly criticizes Albin's 

 "yellow starling from Bengal," vol. ii. p. 38, pi. 41. 



In 1766, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. i. p. 160, Linnaeus, having found out that the 

 bird in question is not a Starling but an Oriole, placed it correctly in the genus 

 Oriolus, and, according to the custom of his time, altering the generic name 

 changed also the specific name, and called it Oriolus melanocephalus. To the 

 quotations he added Edwards, pi. 77, p. 77, which is the adult male, and Albm, 

 which he had formerly overlooked, also BrLsson, which had appeared between 

 1758 and 1766. 



As no modern Rules of Nomenclature, from Strickland to our days, allow 

 to change a specific name because it is placed into another genus, Linnaeus' 

 name luteolus must be used instead of melanocephalus. 



THE NAME OF THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



This has had many vicissitudes. It was, for a long time, known as Musci- 

 capa grisola (L.) 1766. After the rediscovery and admittance of Pallas' Adum- 

 bratiuncula, in the Catalogue of the Vroeg Collection, it became Muscicapa 

 striata (Pall.) 1764. In Journ. f. Orn. 1906, p. 529, Lonnberg stated that it 

 must be called Muscicapa ficedula (L.) 1758. Lonnberg's statement, that the fact 

 that Linnaeus, in 1766, gave another name to the Spotted Flycatcher, and that 

 he added further quotations and descriptions which really belonged to different 

 species, does not affect the name given in 1758, is undoubtedly correct, but the 

 question is : can the name of 1758, Motacilla Ficedula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 

 X. i. p. 185, be accepted. Ten years ago, when studying the Flycatchers for 



