642 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEl M. vol. xxxv. 



Semiparus Hellmayr, Journ. fi'ir Orn., XLIX, April, 1901, p. 171. 



New name for Sittiparus 0, Oates, preoccupied [Timaliidae. \ 



Semi-, half; parus, a titmouse. 

 "Serinus M. J. Brisson " (Sherborn). Not used in a generic sense by 



Brisson. 

 Sieberocitta Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 5th ed., I, Dec, 1903, p. 499. 



Type, Cyanocitta ultrarnarina arispnse Ridgway [Corvidse.] 



(Proposed as a subgenus of Aphelocoma.) 

 For [Franz Wilhelm?] Sieber; + Kirra, the jay. 

 Silvestrius Bertoni, Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 1901, p. 136. 



Type, Tha?nnophilus (Silvestrlus) jlavescens Bertoni (—J/t/i- 



oihera mentalis Temminck) . [Formicarudw.] 



(Proposed as a subgenus.) 

 For Dr. Felipe Silvestri. (Bertoni.) 

 *Siolia Brookes, Catal. Mus. Joshua Brookes, Pt, 11, July, 1828, 

 p. 84. 



Type, " Slolla spinicmida" a norm n nudum here. (Referred to 



the group " Sylviana " of Vigors) [Incertse sedis.] 



Sitocorax F. A. Bielz, Verhandl. und Mittheil. siebenbiirgis<'hen 

 Verein [Hermannstadt], IV, No. 4, April, 1853, p. 55. 



Type, Corvns frugilegus Linnaeus [ Corvldie. j 



2?>ocr, wheat, corn, grain; KopaS, a raven. 

 Sittella Swaixson, Classif. Birds, II, July, 1837, p. 317. 



Type, Sltta chrysoptera Latham. [Sittidae. j 



Diminutive of Sitta, a nuthatch. 

 fSmiliornis Ameghino, Sinopsis geol.-paleon., Suplemento, 1899, p. '.». 



Type, Smiliomis penetrans Ameghino [Phororhacidae.] 



2pi\v, a sharp cutting instrument, a chisel ; opvis, bird. (Ameg- 

 hino, MS.) 

 Spermologa* Billbeik;, Synopsis Fauna? Scand., I. Pars 2, 1828, tab. 

 A and p. 28. 



Types, Fringilla hdensis Linnjeus { = F. montifringilla 

 Linnaeus,) F. spin us Linx.ei rs, j<\ carduelis Linnaeus, and F. 



linarla Linnjeus . [FringilUdse.] 



^TteppoXoyog. picking up seeds. (Billberg.) 



Spizites Illiger, Abhaudl. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, for 1812-13, 1816, 

 p. 230. 



Type, Pipra punctata Latham . . \I)icxidx\ 



(=; Pardalotus Vieillot, April, 1816.) 

 27tiCiTt]g, a titmouse. 



"Sec Pseudominla Oates, L894, and Proparoides Bianchi, 1902. 

 6 " Spermolega " on table A, bul Spermologa on p. 28, where the derivation is given 

 as above. 



