312 Report on Amendments and Alterations [Ibis, 



p. 78. For Genus Ilj/polais Brehiii substitute 



Hippolais Baldenstein, Neue Alpina, ii. p. 27, 1827. 

 Type l)y nionotypy //. italica Bald. = H. poh/glotta 

 (Vieill.j. 



The generic names of the Icterine, Melodious, and 

 Olivaceous Warblers must also be changed to Hip- 

 polais (^i-ide Mathews and Irodalc, Austr. Av. Rec. iii. 

 p. 122). 



p. 127. For Flammea substitute 



Tyto Billberg, Synops. Faun. Scand. i. pt. 2, 1828, 

 tab, A. Type Strix alba Scop. (t;/". Mathews, Nov. 

 Zool. xvii. 11)10, p. 500, and Auk, i920, p. 444). 



p. 216. The type of the genus '/'rinr/a is not T. camitus 

 but T. ocliropus. as was first pointed out by Mathews 

 (Nov. Zool. xviii. 1911, p. 5). This and Richmond's 

 discovery of the Anonymous reviewer in the Allg. 

 Lit. Zeit. {cf. P. U.S. Nat. Mus. liii. p. 581) will 

 involve considerable changes in the genera of the 

 Stints and Sandpipers as follows : — 



Genus Calidris Anon. Allg. Lit. Zeitung, 1804, 

 vol. ii. col. 542. Type by tautonymy 7rinf/a calidris 

 Linn.= Trimja cainihis Linn. 



Genus Erolia Vieillot, Analyse, 1810, p. 55. Type 

 by monotypy E. rariegataW.i^\\\.=^Tringaferuyinea 

 Brihi. ; and the following species will stand as : 



Kroliaminuta, E.minutilla, E.temmincl-i, E.macu- 

 lata, E. acnmijiata, E. bairdi, E. fuscicollis, E. mari- 

 tima, E. alplna, and E. ferriigiiiea. 



For l^otanus substitute 

 Tringa, type by tautonymy 7\ ochropus Linn., and 

 the following species will stand as : 



Triruja totanus, T. eryihropus, T. melajioletica, 

 T. //ar/yi>^5, T. stagnatilis, T. nebularia, T. liypo- 

 leiica, T. macidaria, T. ocJiropns, T. glareola, and 

 T. solitaria. 



