ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 12. N:o 3. 



Loxia liordeacea Linné 1758 is identical with 

 Euplectes tlammlceps Swainson 1837. 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



Communicated September llth 1918. 



In Systema Naturae ed. X, 1758, p. 173, Linn^us describes 

 as the fourteenth species of his genus Loxia a bird, which 

 he names L. liordeacea. The diagnose reads as follows: 



»L. fulva, temporibus albis, cauda pectoreque atris. 



Mus. Ad. Fr. 2 p. 



Hahitat in Indiis. 



Corpus magnitndine Motacillce albce. Grisea sunt Humeri, 

 Femora, Ani regio, margines Rectricum. Nigra sunt Tempora 

 ad rostrum usque, Alae & Remiges, Cauda & Rectrices, Pectus. 

 Fidva sunt Caput, Collum, Uropygium.» 



The quotation »Mus. Ad. Fr. 2.» does not refer to the 

 wellknown great volume in foiio: »Museum Regis Adolphi 

 Friderici», printed 1754, but to the much smaller work »Mu- 

 seum S:8e R:9e Mitis Adolphi Friderici Tomi Secundi Prodro- 

 mus, Holmiae 1764.» This was thus not printed 1758, although 

 it was already quoted at that time — probably from Linn^us' 

 manuscript. This fact explains wby the quotation of 1758 

 does not refer to any page in »Mus. Ad. Fr. 2.»; the last 

 figure indicates, of course, »Tomi secundi». 



When finally this work was published in the year 1764, 

 the diagnose and description of »Loxia hordeacea» appear 

 there with exactly the same words as in Systema Naturse 

 ed. X. The only difference is that the characteristics are 



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