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established and characterized before Daulias, Boie, is the 



proper generic name to be used for the Nightingales. 



I have heard that one reason adduced for rejecting " Lus- 



cinia " is that Brehm^ in using that name, has attributed it 



to Brisson, as if he was reviving a Brissonian genus, whereas 



Brissoa made no such genus. But I do not see any good 



reason in this. Brehm could not have thought that he was 



reviving a Brissonian genus Luscinia, as he must have read 



that Brisson puts Luscinia in the genus Ficedula ; Brehm 



only meant that the term Luscinia (like Cymiecula, Ruticilla, 



and other names, which have been generalhj accepted and 



attributed to Brehm, even in the B.O.U. List) is to be found 



in Brisson. It is, however, a fact beyond any doubt that 



those names were used in a generic sense for the first 



time by Brehm, and consequently they must be attributed 



to him. ^j o 



Yours &c., 



T. Salvauori. 



Sirs, — In the notice of my article on Birds from Emperor- 

 William^s-Land, in the last number of ^ The Ibis,' the locality 

 in one passage (p. 518, line 8) is given as *' Lifu." It 

 should be " Kafu." 



Begging of you to notice this erratum. 



Yours &c., 



Dresden, November 1886. A. B. Meyer. 



The House Bunting of the Sahara and Marocco (Fringil- 

 laria saharse). — " One very pleasing feature in Marocco is the 

 tameness of all wild creatures. At Kaid Maclean's dinner- 

 table there were always a number of little birds hopping 

 about on the cloth, which at first we thought were pets of 

 the family, till we were told they were the Sparrows of the 



Boie, be prior to the latter name;" but Strickland at that time was 

 not aware that Luscinia had been used by Brehm in 1828, long before 

 Bonaparte. 



