608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 53, 



Nesomiro Mathews and Iredale, Ibia, ser. 10, vol. 1, No. 3, July, 1913, p. 440. 



Type, Miro traversi Buller [Muscicapidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 N^ffos, island+ Miro. (Mathews, MS.) 



Nesopardalotus Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 115. 



Type, Pardalotus quadragintus Gould [Dicaeidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 N^ffos, is\aTid+ Pardalotus {irapdaXoiTOi, spotted like the leopard). (Mathews, MS.) 



Nesophlos RiDGWAY, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 23, Apr. 19, 1910, p. 55. 



Type, Trochilus evelynx Bourcier [ Trochilidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 N^croj, island; <t>\6^, a flame. (Ridgway.) 



Nesoptilotis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. CO. 



Type , Ptilotis flavigula Gould [ Meliphagidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 ifrjaos, island + Ptilotis (xriXof, feather; ofs, ut6s ear). (Mathews, MS.) 



Nesozosterops Mathews, Novit. Zool., vol. 18, No. 3, Jan. 31, 1912, p. 451. 



Type, Zosterops strenua Gould [Zosteropidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 N^a-os, island -\- Zosterops {^uarfip, a girdle; w^, eye). (Mathews, MS.) 



Niphophilos Petenyi, in Brehm, Handb. Stuben . . . Vogel, 1832, p. 296, 



Substitute for Chionophilos Petenyi [Alandidae.] 



(See Chionophilos.) 



Noctua S. G. Gmelin, Novi Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., vol. 15, 1771, p. 447, 

 pi. 12. 

 Type, Noctua minor "Brisson"' S. G. Gmelin [=Strixfla7rvmea Pontoppidan], 



[Strigidae.] 

 (Monotypy.) 



Nomadites "Peteniz" - Gray, List Genera Birds, ed. 2, 1841, p. 54 [Stumidae.] 



Cited as a synonym of Pastor Temminck. 



Nomusia "Heugl. M. S. (1859)" Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afrika's, vol. 2, 1873, p. 

 994.3 

 Not adopted; cited as a synonym of Eemiparra Salvadori [Charadriidae.] 



Northiella Mathews, Novit. Zool., vol. 18, No. 3, Jan. 31, 1912, p. 276. 



Type, Platycercus hsematogaster Gould [Psittaddae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 For Alfred John North. (Mathews, MS.) 

 Northipsitta Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 127. 

 New name for Spathopterus North, 1895 (not Spathoptera Serville, 1835). 



[Psittaddae.] 

 For Alfred John North. (Mathews, MS.) 

 Notioenas Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, May 27, 1915, p. 106. 



Type, Columba maculosa Temminck [Columbidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Nortos, southern; oivd^, a wild pigeon. (Ridgway.) 



• Although Gmelin credits the name N. minor to "Brisson," the species described and figured hero Is 

 not the one described by Brisson. 



* Gray quotes this name as of "Peteniz (183-?)." 1 have not been able to ascertain whether Pet&iyi 

 ever published the name. See also nermann, .\quila, vol. 3, lS9fi, p. 15S. 



» Flnsch and Rartlaub (Dccken's Reis. O.-Afr., vol. ■», 1870, p. Wl) had previously quoted this nama 

 from Heuglin's MS., as " Nonnusia," under the gonus Limnetes, 



