4 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. ix. 



meadows, and has a different note ; his quotations refer 

 with more or less certainty to M. fiava flava or some of its 

 races. 



Under the circumstances, Linnseus's later name of 1771 

 (Scopoli is 1769) cannot l)e accepted, and we must revert 

 to the name cinprea of Timstall. 



113. Bombycilla garrulus (L.) 



instead of Ampelis garrulus (L.). In the "latest Rules'" 

 i.e. the revised edition in the Proc. IX. Intern. Congress of 

 Zoology (Monaco), 1914, p. 895, etc. in Article 30 (p. 902) the 

 methods of the designation of type-species of genera are 

 enumerated, and '' elimination " is there entirely eliminated ! 

 As Ampelis could only be used by the process of elimination 

 we must now adopt Bombycilla as the generic name of the 

 Waxwing. 



Add— 



1 28 A. Phylloscopus fuscatus (Blyth).— THE DUSKY 

 WARBLER. 

 See Brit. B., VII., p. 223. 



Add— 



148A. Sylvia riippelli Temm.—RUPPELL'S WARBLER. 



See Brit. B., VIII., p. 96. 

 Add— 



1 58 A. Turdus philomelus hebridensis Clarke. — THE 

 HEBRIDEAN SONG-THRUSH. 



See Scot. Nat., 1913, pp. 53-5, also Brit. B., VI., p. 341. 

 Add— 



182A. Luscinia svecica svecica (L.). — THE LAPLAND 

 BLUETHROAT. 



See Scot. Nat., 1912, p. 236, also Brit. B., VI., p. 186. 



184. Erithacus rubecula rubecula (L.). 



185. Erithacus rubecula melophilus Hart. 



instead of Dandalus r. rubecula and JJandalus r. melophilus. 

 According to Opinion 39 of the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature, " the Latin names in the systematic 

 tables in Cuvier's Legons (V Anatomie , 1800, are available in 

 so far as they are identifiable through the bibliographic 

 references given on page xix. of the Introduction." This 

 is the case in this instance. The opinion that " Motarilhi 

 erithacus,^' i.e. the Redstart, is the genotype of Erithacus 



