640 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



Ripidicala" II. Boie, Neues Staatsbiirgerliches Magazin [Schleswig], I, 



Heft 2, 1832, p. 489. 



Types, ' b Mein Genus Ripidicala {pinia Facher) begreift die 



Mu.scicapa flabellifera, javanica, phoenicura Kuhl, euryura Kuhl, 



perlata m. Sumatra, leucogaster Cuvier Mus. Pari, pondiceriana 



(Mus. Longier) coehinchin. Latham und nocb.meb.rere andere." 



[Jfuscicapidae. ] 

 r Pi7ris (pi7Ti8os) a fan; Koikrj, beautiful. 



Rubicilla Bonaparte and Schlegel, Monogr. Loxiens, 1850, p. xiv. 



Types Loxia rubicilla Guldenstadt, Pyrrhula rhodochlamys 

 Brandt, Carpodacus sophia Bonaparte and Schlegel, and Frin- 



gilla rosea Pallas _ . [Fringillidse.] 



Rubor, redness; cillo, I move, i. e., the tail. 

 Rubricapilla S. D. W., Analyst, III, No. XIII, Oct., 1835, p. 32. 



Type, "Rubricapilla ohm*, W.," or "Catkin Redpoll." (Iden- 

 tified with Linaria pusilla Blyth, on p. 204.) [Fringillidae.] 



Hither, red; capillus, hair. 

 Rufipes "Blyth 11 S. D. W., Analyst, III, No. XIII, Oct., 1835, p. 33. 

 Type, "Rufipes vulgaris" or "Common Red-leg. 1 ' 6 



[ TePraonidse. ] 

 (See Erythropus Blyth.) 

 Rufus, red; pes, foot. 

 *Rupicula Macklot, Bijdr. Natuurk. Wetensch. [Amsterdam], V, St. 

 I, 1830, p. 175. 

 Types, Rupicula albogularis, Ii. rufiventris, and R. threnothorax, 



all nomina nuda here \Incerta& sedis.] 



Rupicula, diminutive of rupex, a rustic. 

 Ruwenzorornis Neumann, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV, No. C, Oct. 30, 

 1903, p. 14. 



Type, Gallirex johnstoni Sharpe .[Musophagidae.] 



For Mount Ruwenzori; + opvig, bird. 

 " Saccharivora M. J. Brisson," cited by Sherborn, is not used in a 



generic sense. 

 "Salangana," cited by Waterhouse and adopted by me (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.. XXV, 1902, p. 301) in place of Collocalia, proves to 

 have been used in a vernacular sense only by Geotfroy St.-Hilaire. c 



"Quoted us " Rhipidicala'* by Gray, Appendix List Genera Birds, 1842, p. 9, and 

 as "Rhipidcidura, Boie, Oken's [sis" by Giebel, Thesaurus, III, 1877, p. 427. 



'-Sec also S. Palmer, Analyst, III, Jan., 1836, p. 272, where used for Tetrao petrosus 

 Gmelin, and Perdix saxatilis Meyer; Palmer, Analyst, IX, Jan., 1839, p. 307, for 

 Rvfipes picta Palmer {=Perdix rubra of Gould, Birds of Europe, Part 17, pi. ix). 



c] was misled by Lesson's statements (Revue Zool., Ill, 1840, p. 145, and. Echo du 

 Monde Savant, .Inly 20, L843, p. L34) that Salcmgana was established by Geoffroy 

 St.-IIilaire in 1837 (Echo du Monde Savant. IV, 1837, p. 84). Lesson adopts this 

 name on both occasions, claiming priority for it over Collocalia, and accrediting the 



