588 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



Alopochelidon Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, Sept. 30, 1903, 

 p. 106. 



Type, Hirundo fucata Temminck [Hirundinida . j 



AXajftog, fox-colored; jfAzdoj?', swallow. (Ridgway.) 



Amandava" Blyth, in White, Nat. Hist. Selborne, 1836, p. 44 (note). 

 Type, Amanda/va punctata Blyth ( = Fringilla amandava 



Linnaeus) . - - - [Ploct *<!;>. | 



Name of the type-species, from the town of Ahmadabad, India. 

 Amblyrhynchus Nuttall, Manual of Orn., Water Birds, 1834, p. 247. 

 Type, Tringa glacial! s Gmelin (= Tringa fulicaria Linnaeus). 



| Phalaropodidae. | 

 'A/xfiXvs, blunt; pvyx°$, bill, beak. 



f Aminornis Ameghino, Sinopsis geol.-paleon., Suplemento, 1899, p. 9. 



Type, Aminornis excovatus Ameghino [Oruidse.] 



AfxeivGov^ better, superior; opvis, bird. (Ameghino MS.) 

 Ammomanoides Bianchi, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersb., 5th ser., 

 XXI, No. 4, Nov., 1904, pp. 232, 241; Otto, Jonrn. fur Orn., 

 1905, p. 612. 



Type, Mirafra phamieuroides Blyth [Alaudidse. \ 



(Proposed as a subgenus of Ammomanes.) 

 Ammomanes (<v'//yuos-, sand; piaivo)uai, lam mad, rage [with love]) + 

 sidog, resemblance. 

 Ammomanopsis Bianchi, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersb., 5th ser., 

 XXI, No. 4, Nov., 1904, pp. 232, 241; Otto, Journ. fur Orn., 

 1905, p. 611. 



Type, Alauda grayi Wahlberg . [Alaudidae. \ 



(Proposed as a subgenus of Ammomanes.) 

 Ammomanes (cyjujuos, sand; fxaivojxai^ I am mad, rage [with love]) + 

 oipis, appearance. 

 Ammopasser 6 Zarudny, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, new ser., IV, 

 No. L, L890, pp. 9, 20. 



Type, Passer ammodendri Severtzov | Fr!a</!Il!<l;v. \ 



\n)n>>. sand; + passer, a sparrow. 

 Ammospiza Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Quarterly Issue, 

 XLVIII, No. L, May 13, 1905, p. 68. 



Type, Oriolus caudacutusi Imelin \FringilUda . ] 



(Sec Passt rht rbulus.) 

 "AfXfJLOs, sand: ffniCa^ (inch. (Oberholser.) 

 *Ampelis Morris, in N. Wood's Naturalist, II, No. 9, June, 1837, p. 124. 

 Type, u Ampelis garrula" or "Roller" [of his list of British 



Itirds] [Coraciida . | 



AjxrtsXk, a kind of singing bird. 



" Amandava should replace Sporsegintb/us Cabanis, 1850. 



'' Xiii designated as new here, and probably used by some earlier writer. 



