592 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



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

 L23. 

 T} T pe, u Asterias palurnharius^ or "Goshawk" [of his list of 



British birds] [Buteonidse.] 



AGrepiag, a kind of mottled falcon. 



Asturaetos C. L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, Heft I, p. 26. 



Types, " Aquila Bonelli, limnaetos etc." [Buteonidse.'] 



Astur, a hawk; + asros, an eagle. 

 f Asturaetus" De Vis, Annals Queensl. Museum, No. 6, Sept. 30, 1905, 

 p. 6. 



Type, Asturaetus furcillatus De Vis [Button idte'S] 



Atalotriccus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, Sept. 2, 1905, 

 p. 208. 



Type, ( 'olopterus pilaris Cabanis [Tyrannidd?,.\ 



Arockog, delicate; rp//c/co?r, a small bird. (Ridgway.) 



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

 XLVIII, No. 2, July 1, 1905, p. 155. 



Type, Haematornis flavicollis Swainson [Fucnonotidse.] 



Ari/uaarog, neglected; ifckag, thrush. (Oberholser.) 



Attagen Oken. Isis, I, 1817, p. 1184. 



Based on " Ganga ou d'Attagen. (Pterocles. Tern.)" Cutter, 

 Regne Animal [I, 1817, 450 (type, Tetrao alchata Linnaeus)]. 



[Pteroclidae.] 

 Attogen, a bird living in marshes. 



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

 Types, Aucornis < uryrhynchus and ^1. solidus Ameghino. 



[ Stereom ithes. ] 

 Av$y, great, large; oprig, bird. (Ameghino, MS.) 



Auga Billberg, Synopsis Fauna' Scand., I, Pars 2, 1828, tab. A. 



New name for Galbula Brisson [ Galbulidse.] 



tnyeao, I shine, glitter. 



* Amelia C. T. Wood, Orn. Guide, Jan., 1837, p. 215. 



Type, "Aurella ciris," or "Painted NonpareP'-.^Z^Ww^i^wfee.] 

 Ann /hi. diminutive of aura, a bright light, a glitter. 

 Autruchon Temminck, Manuel d'Ornith., 2d ed., IV, 1840, p. 347. 



Type, " Gralle bi-dactyle " of Levaillant [Struthiones.] 



Latinized from the French, autruche, an ostrich. 



x Bacha Jameson, Calcutta Jour n. Nat. Hist., I, 1840, p. 320. 



Type, not designated; a nomen nudum here [Buteonidss.] 



Name of a hawk {Spl/onii* l>acha), b from Levaillant. 



aAxtiiriiilns ]ii: Vis is preoccupied by Antnrai'ios I'-kkhm. In a recent letter Mr. De 

 Vis suggests as a substitute Plioaetus, which I now formally adopt. 



''.I. I;. Forster named this species Falcobassus (Naturgesch. African. Vogel, 1798» 

 p. 55 . The bird should therefore be called SpUornis bassus. 



