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to use " Buteo" instead of Paheornis, aud '' Nisus" in place 

 of Centropus, as Herr Poche so judiciously suggests ! 



The second case which Dr. Hartert discusses is the claim 

 put forward by Prof. Reichenow and others for the admission 

 of Hasselquist's 'Iter Paltestinuni ' into binomial nomen- 

 clature. The original edition of Hassclquist's work (1757) 

 is clearly " out of court/' even for those who begin nomen- 

 clature with the tenth instead of the twelfth edition of the 

 1 Systema.' But it is maintained that Hassclquist's names 

 are brought into the regular category by the German trans- 

 lation of 1762. This view Dr. Hartert shews to be untenable, 

 because the original work was edited by Linnseus after the 

 death of Hasselquist, so that the names used in 1762 should 

 not be properly attributed to Hasselquist but to Linnaeus, 

 who in 1 7 ."> 7 had not adopted binomial nomenclature. 



12. Hartert's ' Miscellanea Ornithological 



[Miscellanea Ornitholo^iea. and other Notes mostly on Palcearctic 

 Birds. By Ernst Hartert, Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 457 (1904).] 



These notes have been made by Dr. Hartert during the 

 preparation of his work on Paleearctic Birds, and though 

 some of us may not altogether agree with his conclusions, 

 they deserve careful consideration. He points out that 

 three subspecies of Carpodacus thura should be recognised. 

 The proper specific name of the Sepoy Finch {Hcematospiza 

 sipalii), he considers, should be " indie 'a (Gm.)." This we 

 are of opinion is not "fully proven/' But we quite allow 

 tha' 1 : Carpodacus sinaiticus should be more correctly called 

 C. syncecus Temm. Notes on the genus Passer follow, and 

 contain various remarks on the synonyms and rectifications 

 of its puzzling members. 



Dr. Hartert then takes up Stoliczka's much-neglected 

 Linota pygnuea, described in 1868 (J. A. S. B. xxxvii. pt. 2, 

 p. 62) , which he is inclined to refer to a young Serinus 

 pusillus. Discussing the species of Crossbill, our author 

 comes to the conclusion that the true Loxia pityupsittacus 

 of Borkhausen (1796), but not of Bechstein (1802), is 



