no. 1656. LIST OF GENERIC TERMS OF BIRDS— RICHMOND. 62] 



Melanopteryx Reichenow, Zool. Jahrb., I, Heft I, April 1, 1886, p. 

 1 25. 



Type. Ploceus nigerrim/us Vieillot .\JPloceidae. j 



(Proposed a^ a subgenus of Ploceus.) 



MsXag (jiieXav-), black; Ttripvi;, wing. 



Merion Schinz, in Cuvier, Thierreich, IV, 1825, p. 540. 



Type, Maluru8 galaciotes Temminck [Syfoiidw.] 



Merula Km h. ' Syst. Baierischen Zool., 1S16, p. 242. 



Type, Turdus rosi us Linnaeus [Siurnida . | 



Merula, the blackbird. 



fMetancylornis Ameghino, Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, 3d ser., VI, 



Nov. 3<>, 1905, p. 129. 



Type, Paraptt nodytes curt/as Ameghino [Sphenisc'i/;' . | 



Miti\\ in the midst of, between; ay/cuXos, crooked, curved; opvig, 

 bird. (Ameghino, MS.) 



Micraetus'' Bertoni, Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, L901, p. 156. 



Typo, Micraetus Kolmbergianus Bertoni ( = /*}(/<_•<> emji-niumxi* 



( rMEUN) . .[Buteonidas. | 



WiKpos, small; der6g y eagle. (Bertoni.) 



Microchelidon Sclater, Catal. Coll. Amer. Birds, 1862, p. 3!*. 



Type, Petroch lidon tibialis Cassin [Hirundinida . | 



Mi/cpos, small; / r£Azd k &?i', swallow. 



Microgoura Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV, No. CV1I, May 

 30, L904, p. 77. 



Type, Microgoura meeki Rothschild [ Microgourida Y\ 



MiKpos, small; -\-Ooura {goura, a native? name for the crowned 



pig-eon of New Guinea). 



Microlyssa Riley, Auk, XXI, No. 4, Oct., L904, p. 485. 



New name for Bellona Mulsant and Verreaux, 1866, not III- 



lona Reichenuach, 1S5^_ _ [Irochitidas. | 



MiKpog, small; Xvffffa, rage, fury, frenzy. 



o Koch's WOrk"was published before July (eonipare Licmtenstein, Abb. k. Akad. 

 Wiss. Berlin, L816-1817 (1819), p. 144), thus antedating the use of Merula by Leach 

 (the prefatory note of whose work is dated "August 30, 1816") Eora thrush. The 

 choice of a name for the group long called Merula seems to lie between Hodoiporua 

 Reichenbach, 1850 > based on figures of generic outlines- no specific name mentioned) 

 and Planesticua Bonaparte, L854. (Copsicua Mobbis, 1837, is preoccupied by Oopsy- 

 chua Wagler, 1827, and Copsichus Kaup, L829 



6 Odontriorchia Kaup (Class. Saug. und Vogel, 1844, p. 124) appears to be the ear- 

 liest available name for this genus, since Leptodon Sitndev all, L836, is preoccupied 

 by Leptodon Rafinesqi b, 1820. Those who regard Falco uncinatu8 Tkmmim e as a 

 member of the same genus will have to use ( 'hondrohierax Lesson, 1843 (type. Daeda- 

 lian erythrofrona Lesson = Falco uncinatua Temminck). 



