1921.] On IT Auhcntons ^'- Mamicode a Bo\iquets.''' 465 



the ('hief F'alconer, on his rounds, tliscovered in the cage of: 

 these Falcons an egg remarkable for the beauty ot its 

 colourino-. This e^g he furtively concealed in the folds of 

 his dress and carried off to his quarters. Subsequently he 

 presented it, for hatching, to a neighbouring prince, who 

 vied with the Khan in his love of Falcons, and in exchange, 

 he received a damsel of surpassing loveliness Avhom he had 

 long desired to add to the number of his wives. Unfortu- 

 nately for. him, the Khan discovered the misdemeanour of his 

 Falconer, who fell into disfavour and had to flee for his life 

 across the sea to Circassia, where, perchance, some wandering 

 ornithologist may again hear this stoiy from the lips of one 

 of his numerous descendants. 



XXV.- — Oti the correct name of D^ Auheiiton s '"''Manucode 

 a Bouquets.'''' By Lord Rothschild. 



When looking up Birds-of-Paradise in connection with the 

 " Plumage Bill/' Mr. T. Iredale drew my attention to 

 the statement by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant on page 24 of the 

 Jubilee Supplement of this journal, with regard to the syno- 

 nym}' of a species of U'lphyllodes, that Dr. Hartert and I 

 had agreed that his synonymy of this bird was correct. 

 I w'ish here to put this synonymy right, and at the same 

 time say I had not agreed to Mr. Grant's view. 



Mr. Grant adopts Boddaert's name, changing his speccosa 

 into speciosa, as being the author's intention. This he does 

 because the name speccosa dates from 1781, whereas he 

 asserted Pennant's name of macjnipca in Forster's Indian 

 Zoology dated only from 1795. 



This is erroneous, as Pennant's name dates from the first 

 German edition, viz. '' Indische Zoologie, &c.'' herausgeoeben 

 von Joliann Reinhold Forster, Halle 1781, not from the 

 2nd and 3rd English editions of 1790 and 1795. Therefore 

 the correct name of D'Aubenton's bird (PL Enl. pi. 631) is 

 DipliyUodes mac/nifica (Penn.) and not IJ. speccosa (Bodd.). 

 Moreover, according to the International Rules speciosa is 

 inadmissible, as only author's corrections in the current 

 volume are valid. 



