1899.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 201 



SOME UNTENABLE NAMES IN ORNITHOLOGY. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



The following notes, gathered duriug the course of recent sys- 

 tematic investigations, are here published in advance of other 

 papers whose appearance is necessarily for some time delayed 

 They relate chiefly to generic terms, although a few changes in 

 specific names are introduced. The lists of i-ecognized species are 

 as complete as available means have permitted. 



The writer is under obligation to Dr. C. W. Richmond for vari- 

 ous courtesies, as well as to Dr. Walter Faxon, Mr. Samuel Hen- 

 shaw and Mr. Witmer Stone for assistance in verification of refer- 

 ences. 



MICRUKIA Graut. 



This generic name, as used by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant/ is preoc- 

 cupied in Coleoptera by Micruria Reitter,* Since by reason of the 

 very long tarsi, tail of 12 feathers, and ihe absence of any spotted 

 condition of plumage, this appears to be a Avell-defined group, it 

 may bear the nanie Eiidomychura, from i^d6fj.ox<>?, occultus, and 

 oupd, Cauda; the type being Brachijvhamphus hypolextcus Xantus. 



The two species are 



Endomyclmm hypoleuca (Xantus). 

 Endomychura craverl (Salvadori). 



EUHYAS Sharpe. 



Euhyas Sharpe' is untenable because of Euhyas Fitzinger," pro- 

 posed for a genus of reptiles. In its stead may be employed Zajj- 

 terus, from fa, valde, and -rspov, ala. The type and only species 

 is Charadrim leucurm Lichtensteiu, which will now stand as 



Zapterus leucurus (Lichtensteiu). 



1 Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., xxvi, 1898, p. 594. 



2 Verh. Ver. Brnnn., xiii, 1875, p. 58, pi. 1, figs. 13-21. 



3 Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, p. 736. 

 * Syst. Kept., 1843, p. 31. 



