620 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



•Maridus C. T. Wood, On. Guide, Jan., 1837, p. 201. 



Types. '"Maridus luteus, Wood" •or "Common Nocturn," and 

 ""Maridus bahamensis, Wood," or " Yellow- headed Nocturn." 



[ Ardeidae. ] 

 Marila Oken, Isis, I, 1817, p. 1183. 



Based on "Les Millouins" Cuvier, Regne Animal [I, 1817, p. 



531 (type, Anas ma/rila Linn^us)] [Anatidad. \ 



MapiX)/, embers of charcoal. 

 Martula C. T. Wood, Orn. Guide, Jan., 1837, p. 183. 



■ Types a . . \_Hirundinidce.~\ 



Megacephalus Bektoni, Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 1901, p. 39. 



Type, Megacephalus Mtorquatus Bertoni (-= Bucco swainsoni 



Gray) . _ . \Bucconida&. \ 



M&yag, large; KS<f)at\i], head. 

 *Megalorhamphus Brookes. Catal. Mus. Joshua Brookes, Pt. II, July, 

 1828, p. 97. 



Type, "Megalorhampfms asiaticus" or "Asiatic Argala." 



[( 'iconiidse.] 

 Miyag (/AeyaX-), large; pa/x<f>og, bill. 



Megaxenops Reiser, Anzeiger Akad. Wissensch. [Wien], XLII, No. 

 XVIII, July, 1905, p. 322. 



Type, Megaxenops parnaguae Reiser [JFumariidae.] 



Meyag, large; -+- Xenops {Hevog, strange; goi]\ face, appearance.) 

 Melanhyphantes Sharpe, in Jameson, Story of the Rear Column, 1890, 

 p. 404. 



Type, Malimbus n igricollis Vieillot \Ploci idse. \ 



MiXag (jAeXav-), black; -\- Hypha/ntes (vfiavrrfs, a weaver). 



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

 p. 121. 



Type, " Melanoleuca pica" or "Magpie" [of his list of British 



birds] [( brvidas. ] 



MeXag (/xzXav-), black; XsvKog, white. 



Melanonyx Buturlin, Dukie iycu rossilski Imperil (" Wild Geese of 

 the Russian Empire"), 1901, p. 22. 

 Type, Anas segetum. Gmelin (= A. fabalis Latham). 



[Anatidse. ] 

 (Proposed as a subgenus of Anser.) ' 

 MeXag (/neXav-), black; ovvg, nail, claw. 



" " It was my intention to have separated the Eave Swallow, and the Bank Swal- 

 low of the following list from the genua Swallow (Hirundo,) under the names Eave 

 Martlet (Martula fenestra,) and Bank Martlet, (Martula riparia,) baton farther con- 

 sideration it appeared to me, that the characters of the new genus were not yet suffi- 

 ciently denned to warrant the innovation." In the " following list" he cites these 

 species under the names "Eave Swallow," or "Hirundo fenestra, Wood," and 

 "Bank Swallow," or " Hirundo riparia, Aldr." 



