Ko. 2221. LIST OF GENERIC TERMS OF BIRDS— RICHMOND. 603 



Meropicus Malueude, Monogr. Picid^es, vol, 1, 18G1, p. liii. 



Typo, Picus hirundinnceus [Linnaeus] [Picwfae,] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Merops, guepier-f Ptciw. (Malherbe.) 



Merula Boddaert, Tabic PI, Enl., 1783, p. 11 (No. 182), p. IG (No. 258). 



Type, "Merula montana, Linn. syst. VI." [=Turdus torqiuitus Lin- 

 naeus] [Turdidae.] 



(Present designation.') 



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

 p. 288); Zimmermann, in Bartram, Rcisen Nord-und Siid-Karolina, 1793, p. 284; 

 Mathews, Auk, 1914, pp. 88, 90. 

 Type, Merula marilandica Zimmermann [=Fringilla rubra Lin- 

 naeus] [Tangnridae.] 



(Virtual monotypy.') 



Merulissima Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 5, 1881, p. 232. 



Substitute name for Semimerula Sclater \Turdidae.] 



Mesitornis Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus, vol. 41, No. 17, October, 1855, p. G51. 



Substitute name for Mesites I. Geoffroy * [Mesitidae.] 



Mesocarbo Mathews and Iredale, Ibia, ser. 10, vol. 1, No. 3, July, 1913, p. 415. 



Type, Carbo sulcirostris Brandt [Phalacrocoracidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 Meo-os, middle+ Carfto (carbo, a coal). (Mathews, MS.) 



Mesospllus' SuNDEVAi.L, Conspectum Avium Picinarum, 1866, p. 116. 



Type, Piais rajjlesi Vigors [Picidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (Subgenus of Picus.) 



Metagraucalus Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. 59. 



Type, Graucalus tenuirostris Jaudine [Campephugidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Mtra, in the midst of, betweea+C»raucaZus {ypayKa\oi, a kind of bird), (Mathews, 

 MS.) 



Metallopsar Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. GO. 



Type, Calornis purpurascens Gray [Graculidac] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 MkraWof, metal; \j/ap, starling. (Mathews, MS.) 



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



Type, Alcyone pusilla halli Mathews [Alcedinidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 MtKpos, sm&\l+ Alcyone {'AXKvofv, wife of Ceyx), (Mathews, MS.) 



> Merula (Corvus) Brachyurus, Linn. Gen. 50. 15" is mentioned on p. 16. Matliews and Iredale (Austral 

 Avian Record, vol. 3, 1915, pp. 38-10) have discussed this case, but failed to fix the type. 



» A nomen nudum with Uartram, but recognizable from Zimmermann, who adds "(Seligm. Cat. III. 

 T. 12)," and this is clearly applicable to P'ringilla rubra Linnaeus. From portions of Bartram's diary 

 published by Doctor Stone (Auk, 1913, p. 34S), it appears that the Summer Redbird of Bartram was the 

 Piranga eryttiromelas Vieillot, and the Sandhill Redbird was P. rubra (Linnaeus), quite the reverse of 

 Zimmermann's usaco. However, the latter's action is final, and his Merula mariljindica is equivalent 

 to Fringilla rubra Linnaeus. 



« McTula flammea, or the "Sandhill redbird of Carolina," Is also cited, but it is a nomen nudum with 

 both Bartram and Zimmermann. 



* J/Mi<'«» of Schonherr, 1S38 (Coleoptera), appears to be subsequent to Geoffroy (see Brazil, Revue Franf. 

 d'Orn., vol. 3, 19U, pp. 66-67). 



» Equivalent to Oauropicoides Malherbe, 1861. 



