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NOTE ON THE GENERIC NAME UROPSILA, SCL. & SALV. 

 By ROBERT RtUQlVAY. 



The name Uropsilay proposed in 1873 by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin 

 aa the name of a genus having for its type the Troglodytes leucogastra 

 of Gould, being i^reoccupied, it becomes necessary to rename the genus. 

 Accordingly, I propose, as a substitute, the name Hemiura, with the 

 same species as type. The synonymy of the genus would therefore be 

 as follows : 



Uropsila Scl. & Salv., Nom. Neotr. 1873, 155 (nee Uropsilus Edw., 1872, 

 mauimals). Type, Troglodyles leucogastra Gould. (Cf. Salv. & Godm. 

 Biol. Centr. Am., Aves, i, 1879, 77 ; Sharpe, Cat. B, Brit. Mas. vi, 1881, 

 284.) 



Hemiura Ridgw., MS, Same type. 



To this genus (which I am inclined to rank as merely a subgenus of 

 Troglodytes) I would also refer the Troglodytes brachyurus Lawr. (Ann. 

 N. Y. Ac. Sci. iv, No. 2, June, 1887, 07), as a near ally of the type; 

 Troglodytes sohtitialis Scl; (P. Z, S. 1858, 550), from Ecuador, Peru, and 

 Bolivia, and Troglodytes (?) ochraceus Ridgw. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv, 

 1882, 334), from Costa Eica. The latter has been referred by Messrs. 

 Salvin and Godman and Mr. Sharpe to T. solstitialis; but the type is 

 certainly a very different bird from the specimens of T. solstitialis from 

 Guayaquil, Ecuador, in the National Museum collection. 



