626 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



Nesocharis Alexander, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIII, No. XCV, Feb. 

 28, 1903, p. 48. 



Tj r pe, JVesoeharis shelleyi Alexander [Ploceidae.] 



Nrjffog, island; x a P l s-> grace. 



Notiocichla Oberholser, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Museum, XXVIII, No. 

 1411, July 8, 1905, p. 900. 



Type, Sylvia bseticata Vieillot [Sylviidce.] 



Notion, southern; ^/^A//, thrush. (Oberholser.) 



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

 XLVIII, No. 1, May 13, 1905, p. 61. 



New name for Sharpia Bocage, 1878, not Sharpia Tourmer, 



1873 - . - [Ploeeidae. J 



Nonog, southern; GniCa, a finch. (Oberholser.) 



Numida Linn.eus, Museum Adolphi Friderici, II, 1764, p. 27. 



Type, Phasianus meleagris Linnaeus [Phasla/t ida&. ] 



Numida, a Numidian. 



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



Based on "Les Numidiques" Cuvier, Regne Animal [I, 1817, 

 p. 472 (type, "La Demoiselle de Numidie. (Ardea virgo. L.)"] a 



[Gruidse.] 

 Nwnidicus, Numidian. 

 Nyctagreus'' Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIV, Sept. 25, 1901, 

 p. 171. 



Type. Caprimidgus yucatanensis Hartert [Capritnulgidse.] 



NvB, (vvktos), night; aypevg, a hunter. (Nelson.) 



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

 p. 123. 



Types, " Nyctimene flammitla" or "Gillihowlet," and "Nycti- 

 mene stridida" or "Brown Owl" [of his list of British birds]. 



[Aluconi</;f\] 

 NvB, (vvKtog), night; jaevcD, I remain, abide. 



Nyctornis Nitzsch, Observ. Avium Arteria Carot. Communi, 1829, 

 p. 15. 



Type, CaprimiiJgiix grandis Gmelin [Caprimulgidae.] 



\vg (vvktos), night; opvis, bird. 



"Nystactes Kait." cited by Waterhoiise, is a mammal ! 



t Ocyplanus De Vis, Annals Queensl. Museum, No. 6, Sept. 30, 1905, 

 P-8. 



Type, Ocyplanus proeses De Vis. [Limie<>l;<\\ 



Dkvs, swift, fleet; -rtkocvog, a wandering about, roaming. 



i Named Grus numidicn by Bechstein, in 1792. 



& Emended to " Nycbiagrius" by Sclater, [bis, L902, p. :!4. r >. 



