628 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.53. 



Vagans "Leach" [Blyth?], in Partington 'd Brit. Cyclop. Nat. Hi^t.. vol. 1, 1835, 

 p. 611, fig. 



Type, "Parus caudatus, and Longicaudutus, auctorum " ' [Paridae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 VerreauxiaHARTLAUB, ArcMv fiir Naturgesch., vol. 22, Bd. 2, 1856, p. 28. 



Ttpc, Snsia africana Verreaux [Piddae.'] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 



Vetola Mathews, Bird^ of Australia, vol. 3, pt. 2, May 2, 1913, p. 191. 



Type, Scolopax lapponica Linnaeus [Scolopacidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 Vetola, a Venetian name (see Brisson, Orn., vol. 5, pp. 76, 263). (Mathews, MS.) 



Vireocantor Maynard, Directory Birds Eastern N. A., pt. 9, 1907, p. 242. 



Type, Motadlla rirens Gmelin [ Mniotiltidae.] 



(Original designation.) 



Vociferator W. H. Y., Mag. of Nat. Hist. [LoudonV], vol. 7, No. 44, December, 1834, 

 p. 636. 



Substitute name for Caprimulgus Linnaeus [Cnprimulgidae.] 



(See also Nyctivociferator.) 

 Whiteornis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 110. 



Type, Miiscicapa goodenovii Vigors and Horsfield [Mvsdcapidae.'] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For Samuel Albert mite, 1873- (Mathews, MS.) 

 Whitlocka Mathews, Austral Avian Record, v(^!. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 115. 



Type, Climacteris melanura Gould [Certhiidae.'] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For F. Lawson \Vhitlock. (Mathews, MS.) 

 Wilsonavis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 110. 



Typo, Psilopus Jvsca Gould [ Muscicapidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For F. Erasmus Wilson. (Mathews, MS.) 

 Woodfordia North, Victorian Naturalist, vol. 23, No. 5, Sept. 6, 1906, p. 104, pi. 8; 

 Woodford, Ibis, 1916, p. 118, pi. 3. 



Type, Wood/ordia superdliosa North [Melipfiagidae?^ 



(Monotypy.) 

 For Charles Morris Woodford, 1853- (North.) 

 Xanthocincla Jerdo.n, Madras Journal Lit. and Sci., vol. 10, 1839, p. 255. 



Emendation of Janihodnda Gould [Turdoididae.l 



[Xanthogenius "Bp." of Waterhouse (Index, p. 234) is a specific name with Bona- 

 parte!] 

 Xanthoniyias Berlepsch, Proc. Fourth Intern. Orn. Congress (Ornis, vol. 14), Feb- 

 ruary, 1907, p. 490. 



Type, Musdcapa virescens Temminck [Tyrannidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 Xenocopsyclius Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 19, No, 134, May 28, 1907, p. 81; 

 Novit. ZooL, vol. 16, 1909, p. 333, pi. 14, fig. 1. 



Type, Xenocopsychus ansorgd Hartert [ Turdidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 



'At the end of the article (p. G17) the writer says: "Dr. Leach was perfectly right, in removing this 

 very singular species from the genus Parus, and forming of it a separate division." 



* North places this genus near Mdidecles and Melipotes, but Sharpe thought it belonged In the Zosteropldae 

 ( Handlist, vol. 6, p. 632). 



