8 TrEMD^. 



aud Turkestan. It passes on migration throngh the south of 

 France, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Persia. Its winter quarters 

 are unknown, but, as it is said to pass through Nubia in spring 

 and autumn, and has not been recorded from the Transvaal, they 

 are doubtless somewhere in Central Africa. 



a, b. S ad. sk. South Sweden, May 21 Hr. W. Meves [C.]. 



&2o. 



c, (I Juv. sk. South Sweden, July 28. Hr. W. Meves [C.]. 



e. Juv.sk. South Sweden, July 25 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



{Meves). 



f. Ad. St. Sweden. 



!). Ad. sk. Eiver Elbe. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. 



/(, i, k. Juv. sk. Coustautiuople, Sept. 15 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. 

 {Pearce). 



I. S ad.sk. Asia Minor (y. -ffoJswi). F.GodmanandO. Salvin, 



Esqrs, [P.]. 

 in. c? ad. sk. Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



II. Juv. sk. Trebizond. Piu-chased. 



o. Ad. sk. Kashgar {Ih-. BcUeic). India Museum. 



2. Sylvia cinerea. 



Sylvia cinerea, Bechst.* 



La Fauvette grise on la Grisette, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 'jZO (1760) ; 



Laubent. PL Enl. 579. tig. 3 (1778). 

 Motacilla sylvia, Lmn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 380 (1766) ; Ginel. Syst. Nat. 



i. p. 956 (17&8) ; Bvchd. Naturg. Deidschl. ii. p. 558 (1795). 

 La Grisette ou Fauvette grise, Biiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 132 (1778). 

 ? La Fauvette rousse, Danhent. PL EnL 581. tig. 1 (1778). 

 ? Motacilla rufa, Budd. TahL PL Etd. p. 35 (1783, e.v Daubenton). 

 Whitethroat, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 428 (1783). 

 Sylvia communis, Lath. Gen. Syn. SteppL i. p. 287 (1787). 

 Sylvia cinerea, var. /3, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 515 (1790). 

 Sylvia cinerea, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 170 (1802) ; Wolf, 



Taschcnb. i. p. 225 (1810); Temm. 3Ian. d'Orn. p. 112 (1815;; 



VieilL N. Diet. d'HisL Nat. xi. p. 172 (1817); Teinin. Man. 



d'Orn. i. p. 207 (1820); VieiU. Faune Frant;. i. p. 220 (1820); 



Naiim. Vog. DeutschL ii. p. 464 (1822) ; Bovx, Orn. L^rov. 



p. 338 (1»25) ; Menetr. Cat. Pais. Cauc. p. 34 (1832); Jenyns, 



Man. Brit. Vertcbr. p. 109(1835); Bp. Comp. List B. Fur. Sf 



N. Amer. p. 14 (1838); MacgiU. Br. B. ii. p. 350 (1839); 



Crespon, Orn. Gard. p. 130 (lb40) ; Keys. m. Bias. Jl'irb. Fur. 



* According to the Stricklandian code of nomenclature adopted by the British 

 Association, the proper name of the Whitethroat is Sylvia commicnis, Lath. 

 Latham, however, cancelled his own name, and modestly considered our bird 

 a variety only of the phantom continental species, the Parus cincreus of Brisson. 

 It being impossible to identify Brisson's bird with any known species of Sylvia, 

 Latham's name adopted from Brisson must be entirely ignored, leaving the 

 coast clear for Sylvia civcrea of Bechstein. The British-Association rules 

 Laving 80 generally failed in their object, we may safely violate them in 

 favour of the name in common use. It is possible that Daubenton's plate may 

 have been drawn fmm a museum skin of a Whitethroat ; but it is obvious that 

 lie did not intend it for this bird, nor did such an idea ever cross Boddaert's 

 mind. I look upon Motacilla rufa of Boddaert as another phantom species, and 

 propose to ignore the name altogether. {Conf. Seebohm, ' Ibis," 1879, p. 311.) 



