of a Type to Linneean Genera. 



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56 Linnsean ^euera may be, without fear of error, determined. 

 They are as follows : — 



The result does not seem to me so very subversive of cur- 

 rently accepted nomenclature. Out of the 56 genera in the 

 foregoing list, (excepting Strix, which I must treat in detail,) 

 only about three or four would appear to have, from my way 

 of regarding them, a type other than that commonly assigned 

 to them. Indeed I can fancy some of my readers exclaim- 

 ing, Why should all this fuss be made about a matter on which 

 ornithologists are generally agreed ? My answer to this is, 

 that ornithologists have almost always acted upon the prin- 

 ciple I enjoin, and this is a strong point in its favour. The 

 few cases in which the principle has been departed from 



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