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dasculus, and numerous otlier barbarities) sent to the wincls^ yet I doubt 

 very strongly ^yhetller Dr. Heine, in his classical rage, has not burdened 

 us with a quantity of names which will never be used, any more than 

 were those which he has superseded. We have in the ' Nomenclator ' 

 an example of purism carried to its fu.llest extent. In the Code of 

 Nomenclature and Check-list of North- American Birds adopted by the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, we have (p. 47) Canon XXXI. : — 

 " Neither generic or specific names are to be rejected because of 

 barbarous origin, for faulty construction, for inapplicability of meaning, 

 or for erroneous signification.'' We may well begin to despair of 

 arriving at a uniform system of nomenclature. 



An outline of Reichenow's Classification having been given {antea, 

 pp. 16-21), which can be compared with that of the '^ Nomenclator,' I 

 will only add a few words concerning the modifications which affect the 

 arrangement of the old ' Museum Heineanum.' 



These consist principally in the removal of the subfamily Campe- 

 phagiiKS from the neighbourhood of the Muscicapidcs, and their location 

 in the Brachypodldce. The Chalyheince (containing Lycocorax and 

 Chalyl>eus = Mam(codia) and the EurycerotincE are two new subfamilies 

 of the Paradlseidce ; and the Phony gamina of the 'Museum Heineanum' 

 become the GymnorhiniiKB of the ' Nomenclator.' The Todi are 

 removed from the Todince of yore, for which the name of Triccince is 

 now substituted, and the Psarince are now called the Tityrince. Hetero- 

 pehna is shifted from the Ampelina; to the Piprinae. The Todidce are 

 placed between the Phytotomida and the Priotiitidce. 



The arrangement of the " Scansores " is very differently treated in the 

 ' Nomenclator,' varying from that of the ' Museum Heineanum ' and 

 from that of Reichenow. The Musophagidae and Coliidce are placed among 

 the Strisoi^es. The lyngime are a subfamily of the Indicator idee. Opis- 

 thocomiis, placed in the ' jNIuseum Heineanum ' between the IndicatoridcB 

 and Cuculidce, is now more properly removed to the vicinity of the 

 Cracidoe, and it is probable that this will be the proper resting-place of 

 the family. 



The later Orders and Families of birds do not occur in the ' Museum 

 Heineanum,' and are set forth for the first time in the ' Nomenclator,' 

 so that we have to notice some of the modifications which affect the 

 classification of Reichenow of 188.2. 



The Order (XI.) Natatores (Nomencl. p. 340) supplants the Orders 

 Stega?iopodes (IV.) and Lamellirostres (V.) of Reichenow in 1882, and 

 some of the fa.milies recognized at the latter date are now accorded 

 the rank o£ subfamilies only. 



The 10th Order, Grallatores, of the ' Nomenclator,' is equivalent to 

 Series III. of Reichenow's System of 1882 ; but the order is slightly 

 altered, and some new families are introduced, notably the DicholophidcB 



