62Q PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.53. 



Ramsayornis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 2*4, 1912, p. 115. 



Type, Gliciphila suhfasdata Ramsay [Meliphagidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For Edward Piereon Ramsay, 1842?— 1916+orms. (Mathews, MS.) 



Raperia Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 3, No. 1, June 30, 1915, pp. 21, 23. 



Tyj»8, R'lperia godmanm JIathews [Treronidae.'] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For George Raper. (Mathews.) 



Raphipterus Gay, Hist. Chile, Atlas, [1844,] pi. "Zoologia No." » 



Type, Raphipterus chilensit Gay .*. . [Anatidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 



Razocorys Bianchi, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. P6tersb., e^r. 5, vol. 23, No. 3, 1906, 

 p. 230. 



Type, Spizocorys razx Alexander [Alaudidae.'] 



(Original? designation and monotypy.) 



Reginopus Mathews, Au.^tral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 4, Dec. 29, 1913, p. 73. 



Type, Ptilinopus ewingii Gould [ Treronidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Regina, a queen; opus, a work (the work of a queen). (Mathews, MS.) 



Regulus Bartram, Travels through Carolina, etc., 1791, p. — (London ed., 1792, 

 pp. 2S9, 290; Zimmermann, in Bartram, Reisen Nord-und Siid-Karolina, 1793, 

 p. 287; Mathews, Auk, 1914, pp. 89, 90.) 



Type, Motacilla calendula Linnaeus ^ , [Regulidae.] 



(Pi'esent designation.) ^ 



Reinarda Hartert, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, vol. 36, No. 210, Dec. 3, 1915, p. 7. 



New name for Claudia Hartert, preoccupied [Micropodidae.] 



Type, Cypselus squavmtus Cassin. 

 (Orginal designation and monotypy.) 

 Reinholdia Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 107. 



Type, Puffinus reinholdi Mathews [Puffinidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798. (Mathews, MS.) 

 Rhodoglaux "Pr. B. 1854" Gray, Cat. Gen. and Subgen. Bird.s, 1855, p. 135. 



Cited as a synonym of " Rabdoglaux" [=Rhabdoglaux] Bonaparte, with "Strix 

 huvieralis, Pr. B." as the type * [Strigidae.\ 



> The number of the plate is not indicated in the copy seen by me. As to the date, Des Murs (Icon. 

 Orn., livr. 1, text to pi. 5, dated "mai 1845") cites it as 1844, and Agassiz (1846) and Gray (1849) also give 

 this date. I am unable at present to give the number of the livraison in which the plate appeared. 



» Seven species of Regulus are enumerated by Bartram in 1791, but only one is technically available as 

 type at this date. This is "R.cristatus alter verticerubinicoloris; the ruby crown wren. (G. Edwards.)", 

 or Motacilla calendula Linnaeus. Edwards figured and described this species from a specimen sent to him 

 by Bartram. Another species mentioned by Bartram is "M[otaciIlal CaroUniana: (reg. magnus) the 

 great wren of Carolina, the body of a dark brown, the throat and breast of a pale clay colour, " but it would be 

 unfortunate to designate this as the type, even if considered adequately described. In 1793, Zimmermann 

 fl.xed the status of two or three other species, but with these we are not concerned at present. 



» There appear to be excellent generic differences between Motacilla calendula and M. regulus, as long ago 

 recognised by Cabanis, who, in 1853, proposed the name Corlhylio for M. calendula. This genus has been 

 recently revived by Mr. Miller (Auk, vol. 32, 1915, pp. 234-236), but from the above reference to Regulus it 

 will be seen that Motacilla regulus is the species to be provided with a generic name. Macgillivray (Hist. 

 Brit. Birds, vol. 2, 1S39, p. 407) writes: " But should any one desire another generic name, let him choose 

 from among the following, which have all been applied to the "Gold-crested Wren:"— Calendula, 

 Parus, Regulus, Regillus, Rex, Senator, Basiliscus, Regaliolus, Orchillus, Tyrannus, Motacilla, Sylvia, 

 Passerculus." There is also Orchilus Morris, 1837. 



« Rhodoglaux is adopted by Fitzinger (Sitzungsber. K. Akad. [Wienl, vol. 21, Heft 2, 1856, p. 291) as a 

 subgenus of Athene "Gray," with "Strix" ['^Atheiu] humeralis Bonaparte as the only species. 



