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‘races, the ‘ Facarzuis, to which he attached no Latin name, and the ‘ Vrai Sene. 
galis Estrilda Sw. The name Lovigil/a consequently belongs to the first group or 
‘race’ in which he included the following ten species : — 
1. fringilla noctis. Gm. 
2. Tanagra gacarina. Gm. 
3. Fringilla nettens. Gm. 
4. fringilla elegans. Gm. 
5. Loxia frontals. L. 
6. fringilla cyanea. Wils. 
7. Loxta bella. Lath. 
8. Fringilla lathamz. Vig. 
9. Fringilla temporalis. Vig. 
10. Lringilla bichenowi. Vig. 
“Six years later (Complement de Buffon VIII. pp. 240-254, Nos. 1, 2, and 6) 
Lesson himself breaks up this arrangement; /yizg7lla noct’s he refers to the 
‘ Facarinis or Passerines’ to which he applies the generic name Passerina Vieill. 
Nos. 3, 4, and 5 he now refers to the true astrilds (Estrtlda), which leaves the 
name Laexigzlla for the group containing Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10, the ‘ Weebongs, 
all from Australia. It will thus be seen that Zorzgz//a is entirely inadmissible for 
fF. noctis and its congeners for which Bonaparte’s Pyrrhulagra (1850) is the only 
generic name available. By continuing the elimination of Zoxzgz//a still further, it 
will be found that the type is No. 7 Loxa bella Cabanis, Zoneginthus consequently 
being a synonym of Lox?gz//a as restricted, according to the code of the A. O. U. 
The general use of Loazg7//a for the genus typified by /* zocézs originated with Gray, 
who applied the vicious rule that the species first mentioned by the author is to be 
regarded as the type.” 
113.1 Pyrrhulagra violacea (Linn.). Lovrigilla violacea of authors. Habitat, 
3ahama Islands, San Domingo, and Jamaica. Specimens from Jamaica and San 
Domingo vary slightly; but I find no constant differences by which they may be 
distinguished. Old females are black, similar to the males. Auk, p. 297, 1891. 
My collection contains the following specimens of vzolacea : — 
Abaco. 16 males, black; 4 females, gray tinged with black. 
Berry Island. 5 males, black. 
Great Bahama. 2 males, black; 1 female, gray with black breast. 
Eleuthera. 12 males: 7 black, 5 mixed black and gray; 12 females: 5 black, 
5 gray, and 2 mixed. 
