Mr. 0. Salvin on the Genus Cinclus. 113 



The following list gives a tolerably complete synonymy of 

 each species, to which I have added a short description and 

 list of such localities as I have been able to ascertain with 

 certainty*: — 



Family CINCLIDiE. 



Genus Cinclus. 



Cinclus, Bechsteiu, Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 808 (1802). 

 Hydrobata, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. i. p. 219 (1816). 



A. Species inhabiting the Northern Hemisphere. 

 a. Particoloured species of the Palsearctic Region. 



1. Cinclus aquaticus. 



Cinclus aquaticus, Bechst., Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 808. Stur- 

 nus cincltis, Gra., S. N. p. 803 (partim) ; Le Merle d'eau, Buff., 

 viii. p. 134; PI. Eul. 940; Briss., v. p. 252. Tur(his cinclus, 

 Lath., Ind. Orn. ii. p. 343. T. gularis, Lath., Ind. Orn. Suppl. 

 pi. xl. (av. juv.). Cinclus aquaticus, Naum., Vog. Deutschl. iii. 

 p. 935 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 83, and B. Gt. Brit. pi. ; Yarr., Br. B. 

 i. p. 173 ; Thomps., B. Ircl. i. p. 116 ; Temm., Man. d'Orn. i. 

 p. 178, and iii. p. 107. Hydrobata cinclus, Gray, Gen. B. H. al~ 

 bicollis, Vieill. (partim). Cinclus europcBus, Steph. in Shaw's 

 Zool X. p. 313. 



C. supra pileo toto, capitis lateribus cum coUo postico obscure 

 brunneis : interscapulio et uropygio cinereis nigro di- 

 stincte squamatis : alis et cauda fusco-nigris, alarum tectri- 

 cibus ciuereo indistiucte marginatis : subtus gula tota et 

 pectore cum macula supra et infra oculos pure albis : 

 ventre superiore saturate ferrugineo, ventre imo fere nigro : 

 hypochondriis et crisso obscure cinereis : rostro nigro, 

 pedibus obscure corylinis : long, tota 8'0, alse 3"5, caudse 

 2*0, tarsi 1*15, rostri a rictu 1*0 poll. Angl. ^ , Pen- 

 noyre. South Wales, November, 1859 (Mus. J. Gould). 

 Hab. British Islands and Central Europe. 



The only specimens of this race which I have as yet seen are 

 British ; but as all the figures of the various German authors 

 seem to agree with these, I believe the bird from Central Europe 



* For the propriety of using Beclistein's genus Cinchis, see Professor 

 Baird's remarks in his ' Eeview of American Birds,' p. .59, note. 

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