ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 39 



1829 Kaup* created the genus Cydorrliynchus \ for psittaculusj 

 which leaves pygmceus the type of Temminck's genus Phaleris. It may 

 here be added that Bonaparte at last gained the same conviction. He 

 says 4 " Le nom de Phaleris doit appartenir, malgre M. Gray etcomme 

 je I'avais toiijours crn, au genre dont camtscliatica, Lej^echin (cnstatella, 

 Temm. nee Pall.), est le type et I'uniqiie espe^e." Also Brandt came af- 

 terward to the same conclusion (see Mel. Biol., VII, 1869, p. 227, where 

 the subgenus Phaleris only embraces pygmceus pusillus). It seems that 

 Eschscholtz§ about simultaneously with Kaup, but certainly not ear- 

 lier, named the same genus Omhria, but as the certain date seems to 

 be involved in some doubt (I have seen quoted 1829 and 1831 1|), and as I 

 have no means for investigating the question, I prefer the name of Mr. 

 Kaup as the one the date of which is beyond dispute. 



The types of the other genera and the date of their names are too 

 well known to require discussion h^e. They may all be tabulated 

 thus: 



1819. Simorhynchus Mebrem. Type cristatellus. 



1820. Phaleris Temminck. Type pygmceus. 

 1829. Gyclorrhynchus Kaup. Type psittaculus. 

 1828. Cerorhinca Bonaparte. Type monocerata. 

 1852. Ciceronia Reichenbach. Type pusilla. 



It will thus be seen that each of the species has received a separate 

 generic appellation. The value of these sections can hardly be re- 

 garded as equal, some, perhaps, being only of subgeneric importance, 

 but this does not interfere with the question of which name properly 

 belongs to each section, inasmuch as all of them are entitled to recogni- 

 tion. We will therefore have three genera: Cerorhinca^ Gyclorrhynchus^ 

 and Simorhynchus, the latter composed of three subgenera : Simorhyn- 

 chus {= Tyloramphus Brandt), Phaleris and Ciceronia. 



* Kaup, Eutwickgesch. Europ. Thierw., p. 155. " Aiken mit kiirzem oben wie unten 

 bogeulormig gewiilbteui Schnabel." 



t Nee Cyclorhynchus Sundevall, 1836, qui Khijnchocijclus Cab. 



X Comptes Rend., XLIII, 1856, p. 645. 



$ " Zool. Atlas, IV, p. 3." 



II It seems that "part iii" was published in 1829 and " part iv" in 1831, Omhria con- 

 sequently dating from the latter year. 



