NOVTTATES ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 157 



The supposed differences in the shape of the bill are imagination, or so slight 

 that, if admitted, it would follow that numerous new genera would have to be 

 made among birds in general, and especially in what Sharpe called Spinus even 

 in the Handlist. One might perhaps object to my also uniting the Linnets 

 \vdth Carduelis, as they really have a much thicker bill, but I prefer at present 

 to unite them still, because the gap is slight and partly bridged over.) 



193. Spinus olivaceus Berl. & Stolzm. = Carduelis olivacevs. 



Spinus olivaceus Berlepsch & Stolzmann, Ibis. 1894 (not 1904, as the Handlist says), p. 387 (three 

 males and one female from Vitoc, Central Peru, 24. vii. and 13. ii. 1893). 



Type or cotj'pe : <J ad., Vitoc, 13. ii. 1893. Jean KaUnowski leg. No. 

 1872. Marked " Typus " by Stolzmann. 



t 194. Acanthis flavirostris stoliczkae Hart. = Carduelis flavirostris montanellus. 

 Acanthis flavirostris stoliczkae Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 77 (1903 — Kashmir, Type Gilgit). 



Type: (S) Gilgit, 7. iii. 1880. J. ScuUy CoU. (No, 738). 



Henderson and Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 261, 1873, proposed condi- 

 tionally, inconspicuously in the text, the name Linota montanella for the birds 

 from Yarkand. This hitherto overlooked name must be adopted, though the 

 differences originally described do not exist. 



(The fine bill of this form differs from that of Carduelis canrutbina. If our 

 genus-sphtters separate Linnets, Siskins, and Goldfinches into three genera, 

 they must also again separate the Citril and Twites, and several more genera in 

 America. What do we gain by having at least half a dozen genera in the place 

 of one ? Should we resort to such " furor genericus " (Sclater) as has been 

 exhibited by Bianchi or Mathews and in some cases by Sharpe and American 

 nomenclators ? If we did hardly anyone would know what was meant by so 

 many birds under unknown names. This is beautifully illustrated by Mathews' 

 latest list of Australian birds, and his great work on the same.) 



195. Acanthis cannabina meadewaldoi Hart. = Carduelis cannabina 



meadewaldoi. 

 Acanthis cannabina meadewaldoi Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 323 (Tenerife). 



Type: (J ad., Esperanza, Tenerife, 22. iii. 1901. Curt Floericke leg. 



196. Montifringilla ruficoUis Blanf. = Monti fringilla riificollis. 



Montifringilla ruficoUis Blanford, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1871. p. 227 (" Lachen Valley near the 

 Tibetan frontier," but all specimens collected are labelled " Kangra Lama Pass "), 



Type : Kangra Lama Pass, Sikkim, 15,500 ft., 5. x. 1870. Collected by 

 H. J. Elwes and Blanford. 



There can be no doubt that this specimen is the actual type, and not the 

 one in the British specimen, which Sharpe registered as the type. The latter 

 is no doubt a paratype, but on the original label is no remark to the fact ; the 

 word " type " has only been written on the British Museum's label, apparently 

 by Sharpe, while our specimen bears the remark " Montifringilla sp. nov. type of 

 ruficoUis," evidently in the author's handwriting. 



