GENERIC NAMES APPLIED TO BIRDS DURING THE 5TEARS 

 1901 TO L905, [NCLUSIVE, WITH FURTHER ADDITIONS TO 

 WATERHOUSE'S "INDEX GENERUM AVIUM." 



By Charles W. Richmond, 



Assistant Curator, Division of Birds, U. S. National Museum. 



The list presented herewith may be regarded as a continuation of 

 the one published several years ago. a It consists of some 200 names 

 introduced as new during the years L90I to L905, inclusive, with about 

 850 others <>f earlier date, the majority of which are not recorded by 

 Waterhouse. Among the latter are a number of nomina nuda, and 

 Dames of more or less uncertain status. Included in this category are 

 the names given by F. (). Morris, in "a new system of nomenclature, 

 illustrated by a list of British birds," published in Neville Wood's Nat- 

 uralist (II, L837, pp. 123-127). Every one of the thirty or more gen- 

 eric names proposed by him are identifiable with certainty, usually 

 by means of the distinctive specific names of earlier authors, or by the 

 the citation of current and well-known vernacular appellations. There 

 is no doubt, for example, what bird is intended by " Probatt us rost ws," 

 or "Rose-colored Pastor," when given in a list of British birds, yet 

 Morris did not explain in s» many words that his genus Probatt us was 

 based on Tardus roseus Linnaeus. In these and similar cases I have 

 indicated the absence of definite authority for the type species by gn - 

 ing the name in quotation marks and by the addition of the vernacu- 

 lar name. Thus, under Ampelis Morris, the type is given as "Anvpt 

 lis '/'//■/■"/'/." or " Roller," not as "( 'oracias garrvlus Linnaeus," which 

 it undoubtedly is. This treatment of oameswill enable ornithologists 

 todecide each case <>n its individual merits. 



The ensuing list was compiled fully two years ago, but various causes 

 have contributed to delay its publication until the presenl time. In' 

 its preparation I have been aided by several friends and correspond- 

 ents, to whom my best acknowledgments are due: Mr. ('. Davies 



" List of generic terms proposed for birds during the years 1890 t<> L900, inclusive, 

 to \\ bich are added names omitted by Waterhouse in his " Index < Senerum Avium." 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, No. 1267, 1902, pp. 663-729. 



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