598 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.53. 



Leggeornis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, p. 113. 



Type, Malurus lamberti Vigors and IIorsfield [Sylviidae.} 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For William Vincent Legge. (Mathews, MS.) 



Leptonyx Swainson,' Classii. Birds, vol. 2, [July,] 1837, p. 290; Animals in Menageries, 

 [Jan. 1,] 1S38, p. 314. 



Type, Leptonyx melanotis Sw\isaQii=Emberizoides melanotia Temmtnck. 



[Frinriillidae.] 

 (Monotypy.) 

 Leptophaethon Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. 56. 



Typo, Phacthon lepturus dorolhcx Mathews [Pha'elhontidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 AeTTTos, dcVicate+Pha'etkon (^ae^wf, son of Ilelios). (Mathews, MS.) 

 Leptopliaps Reichemow, Journal fiir Orn., vol. Gl, Ileft 2, April, 1913, p. 401. 



Typo, Columba aymara Puevost and Knip [ClaTaviidae.l 



(Monotypy.) 

 Leucanous Mathews, Birds of Australia, vol. 2, pt. 4, Nov. 1, 1912, p. 432. 



Typo, Gygis microrhyncha Saunders [Laridae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 AevKos, white+^nous {avovs, foolish). (Mathews, MS.) 

 Leucopicus "Malherbe" Des Murs, in Chenu, Encycl. Hist. Nat., Oiseaux, vol. 1 

 [1853?], p. 239. 



Tjpe, Picas dominicanus Vieillot [Picidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (See Colombpicus.) 

 Leucopsar Stresemann, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 31, No. 181, Oct. 28, 1912, p. 4; 

 Novit. Zool., vol. 19, 1912, p. 374, pi. 2. 



Type, Leucopsar rothschildi Stresemann [Sticrnidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Leucopterus "Bonap. Fitzinger," Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. [Wien], vol. AG, 

 Abth. 1, 18G3, p. 198. 



Lapsus for Leptopterus Bonaparte [Laniidae.] 



Lewinornis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. 57. 



Type, Sylvia nifirentris Latham [Muscicapidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 For John William Lewin, 17— ?-1818. (Mathews, MS.) 

 ■fLimicolavis Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 19, February, 1915, 

 pp. 55, 56. 



Type, Limicolavis pluvianella Shufeldt [Charadriidaet] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Limus, mud-fco/erg, inhabit, +<"'?s, bird. (Shufeldt.) 

 Limnosalus Wurttembero, Naumannia, 1857, p. 432. 



Type, "Buteo longipes, Jard.[=Jerdon] B. rufinus, Rupp." ^ [Duteonidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Limnothlypis^' Stone, Science, new ser., vol. 40, No. 1018, July 3, 1914, p. 20. 



Type, Sylvia sicaimonii Audubon [Mnioliltidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 AifivT), a marsliy lake, and eXviris, an ancient bird name. (Stone.) 



» Not Leptonyx Swainson, 1S32, a genus of Pteroptochidae. 

 *=AccipUer ffroi S. O. Gmelin. 



» For Helinaia of authors, not of Audubon. The type of Helinaia, as fixed by Gray, 1841, is JUofocflla 

 vermivora Gmelin. 



