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cannot be upheld, because Cuvier called it " Rouge-gorge," 

 which is the name used by Daubenton, Buffon, etc., for the 

 Robin ! 



221. ^golius funereus funereus (L.) 



Strix funerea Linnseiis, Syst. Nat. Ed. X, I, p. 93 (1758 — 

 " Eixropa "). 



instead of jEgolius tengmalmi tengmalmi (Gm.). In the 

 Hand-List (p. 105, footnote) Hartert wrote : " We cannot 

 accept funerea L. (which was principally based on a figure 

 of Billberg* representing Tengmalm's Owl), for its author 

 says that it has the size of a Crow, while Tengmalm's Owl 

 is about half that size. Moreover, Linnaeus quoted as a 

 doubtful synonym a figure of the Short-eared Owl." Recently, 

 however. Prof. E. Lonnberg has shown [Ibis, 1913, pp. 398-400) 

 that Strix funerea, Syst. Nat., 1758, is described as No. 51 

 of the Fauna Svecica 1746, which is based upon coloured 

 plates which Prof. Olaf Rudbeck of Upsala had prepared. 

 Prof. Lonnberg has examined these plates and finds that 

 there are two which clearly represent Tengmalm's Owl, 

 but in one, upon which is written " magnitudo corvi," the 

 bird is much larger than in the other, upon which is written 

 " magnitudo cuculi." In the Fauna Svecica Linnaeus quotes 

 these two plates under two different numbers, but in the 

 Systema Natura 1758 he gives only one of them a name, 

 viz., Strix funerea. The words " magnitudo corvi " are 

 still to be read on the plate which Prof. Lonnberg states, 

 *' very distinctly displays a coloured figure of Tengmalm's 

 Owl." This being so, we must accept the nsune funerea. 



236. Falco columbaxius aesalon Tunstall 



Falco ^salon Tunstall, Om. Brit., p. 1 (1771— Typical 

 locality : France). 



instead of Falco regulus regulus Pall. Falco cesalon of 

 Tunstall was rejected by us as a nomen nudum [Hand-List, 

 p. 112, footnote), but ojDinion 38 of the International Com- 

 mission decides that Tunstall' s names are available under 

 certain conditions, one of which being when they are 

 identifiable through the French names quoted from Brisson, 

 1760. This being so, cesalon, referring to " I'Emerillon " 

 of Brisson, must be accepted. 



The American form of the Merlin differs from the European 

 one in being altogether darker on the upper-parts, having 

 more distinctly white-barred quills and in having the rectrices 

 always distinctly and wddely barred with black. These 



* " Billberg " was of course a lapsus caJami for Rudbeck ! 



