618 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



*Limnophylax H. Boie, Neues Staatsbiirgerliches Magazin [Schleswig] 

 I, Heft 2, 1832, p. 189. A nomen nudum here. 



Type, Limnoj>/i i/I(i, r uiarnwrata H. Boie, a nomen nudum here, 

 but doubtless equivalent to Nycticorax limnophylax Temminck 



(= Ardt a iik lanolopha Raffles) [Ardeidse. ] 



sllpv?/, a pool, marsh; <f>v\al;, a watcher, guard, sentinel. 



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

 125. 



Types, " Linqphaga linaria," or "Linnet," "Linophaga rubra" 

 or "Redpoll," " Linophaga montium" or "Twite," and "Lino- 

 phaga canescens" or "Hoary poll" [of his list of British birds]. 



\FrvngiUids&.~\ 

 Aivov, flax; (frayeiv, to eat. 



fLithosteornis Gervais, Remarques Oiseaux Fossiles, 1814, p. 7 

 (note). 



Alternative name for Osteomis Gervais [Incertse sedis.] 



Aidos, stone; + Osteomis (offreov, bone; opvig, bird). 



Loborhamphus Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XII, No. LXXXIV, 

 Dec. 30, 1901, p. 34. 



Type, Loborhamphus ndbilis Rothschild [Paradis;eid;e.~] 



Aofiog, a lobe; pajufiog, beak. 



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



Type, Loncorn is erect us Ameghlno [Lnct rtse st dis. ] 



Latinized from lonco, Araucanian name of a hill, + opvig, bird. 

 (Ameghino, MS.) 



Longirostris S. D. W., Analyst, IV, No. XV, April 1, 1836, p. 119. 



Substitute name for Macrorhamphus Leach [Scolopacidae.] 



Longus, long; rostrum, beak. 



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

 p. 124. 



Types, ii Loxorynchus curvirostra," or "Crossbill," "Loxoryn- 

 chus cruvirostra," or "Parrot Crossbill," and "Loxorynchus 

 albipennis" or "White- winged Crossbill" [of his list of British 



l>i rds] - . . - \Fringillid8&^\ 



Aogog, crosswise; pvyx°s, beak. 



Lucar "Bartram" Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., for 1875, Oct. 

 19, 1875, p. 349 (note). 



Type, Muscicapa carolinensis Linnaeus [3fimidde. | 



(See also Dunu tella. ) 

 Etymology unknown. The identity with lucar, a forest tax, prob- 

 ably coincidential. (Gill.) 



