18 Mr. P. L. Sc'later on the 



Amblyrhynchus (err.), G. R. Gray, List of Genera, 1840, p. 41 : 

 type A. holosericeus. 



1, Amblyrhamphus holosericeus. 



Le Troiipiale rouge, Sonn. Voy. N. G. i. p. 113. 



Xanthornus holosericeus, Scop. Del, Ins. ii. p. 88. 



Oriolus ruber, Gm. S. N. i. p. 388 ; Lath. Iiid. Orn. i. p. 179. 



Tor do negro cabeza roxa, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 316. 



Sturnella rubra, Vieill. N. D. xxxiv. p. 253, et Euc. Meth. 

 p. 635. 



Amblijramphus bicolor, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 82, pi. 36 ; 

 d'Orb. et Lafr. Syn. i. p. 8, 



Sturnus pyrrhocephalus , Licht. Doubl. p. 18. 



Amblyrhamphus ruber, Bp. Consp. i. p. 429 ; Burm. Syst. 

 Ueb. iii. p. 263, et La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 491 ; Darw. Voy. 

 . ' Beagle,' Zool. iii. p. 109. 



Amblyrhamphus holosericeus, Hartl. Syst. Ind. Az. p. 5 ; 

 Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 190 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 137 ; Scl. et Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 161, 632 (Buenos Ayres) ; Hudson, P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 306; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 174 (Buenos Ayres) ; 

 Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 18 (Buenos Ayres) ; White, P. Z. S. 

 1882, p. 602 (Buenos Ayres). 



Sturnella holosericea, Cass. Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 25. 



Japus rubricainllus , Merrem, Ersch. u. Grub. Enc. xv. 

 p. 281. 



Niger ; capite undique, collo et pectore cum tibiis ruberrimis ; 

 rostro et pedibus uigris : long, tota 9'5, ala3 4" 5, caudse 

 4"0. Fem. Mari similis. 



Hab. Argentine Republic, Uruguay, and Paraguay ; Mal- 

 donado [Barivin); vicinity of Buenos Ayres {Hudson, Gibson). 

 Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G. 



ii. p. 88) for his Xanthoi'nus holosericeus, and would therefore be (strictly) 

 synonymous with Amhlyrhumpliusr 



This is not correct. I now find that Xanthonins was first employed 

 generically by Scopoli in 1777 (Intr. ad Hist. Nat. p. 481). No type is 

 indicated, but reference is made to Browne, who used the term in his ' Nat. 

 Hist, of Jamaica,' p. 477, for two species, which are apparently Icterus 

 vulgaris and I. ceiicopteryx. I think, therefore, that we may consider 

 Xanthornus of Scopoli (1777) a synonym oi Icterus of Brissou (1760), 



