6 A ROUGH TENTATIVE LIST @@@® THE BIRDS OF INDIA. 
Some one looking over my list wishes to know why melano- 
pogon, Chelidon, Treron, Afsalon, Corydon, Delichon, Sc., are 
exempted, forgetting that méiywy, yediddv, tpnpay, ciccdrwy, 
xopvdwyv, do not end in oy and that Delichon is one of those 
objectionable anagrammatic words like Dacelo, &., which belong 
to no language, and can be dealt with by no rule. 
Delichon is not, I believe, a Greek word, only a kaleidoscopic 
re-arrangement of the letters of Chelidon. 
Although I have not altered Linnzean specific names, com- 
mencing with a capital tosecure agreement in gender, I have 
not hesitated to do this to secure uniformity of transliteration. 
Thus Clangula glaucion, the latter word being clearly derived 
from yAavxsov, a certain grey-eyed water bird, I have rendered 
in accordance with rule C. glaucium—similarly I have altered 
chrysaétos to chrysaétus, Se. 
Another rule, the substitution of wu for the Greek ov, is 
equally disregarded. You as often find macroura as macrura ; 
Linné uses both forms of transliteration impartially, and gives 
us macrourus and Phenicurus, but as the former is bis own 
name, while the latter is one beginning with a capital and not 
agreeing in gender with the generic name, and hence not al- 
tered by him, but appropriated from elsewhere in its integrity, 
we may presume that he personally gave the preference to the 
former. 
Usually the generic name is spelt as Dicrurus, but a purist 
like Cabanis, who alters everybody’s names unhesitatingly, 
changes Vieillot’s Dicrurus into Dicrourus, and in this Sunde- 
vall follows him, while he accepts Lesson’s stipiturus, (which 
should be stipturus at any rate) and so on. 
Everywhere it is the same thing ; want of uniformity. 
Now these diversities ave a stumbling block to neophytes, and 
should be got rid of. There is only one word dupe a tail, and 
it should always be rendered the same way. We, English, at any 
rate, have a fixed rule on the subject, and by that we ought, I 
think, to be guided, and therefore throughout my list I have 
spelt this set of compounds in one uniform way, viz., with the 
“w’ and not with the “ ow.” 
Powpadoura I take to be derived from the name Pompadour, 
and not to be a compound. 
Where simple words are manifestly mis-spelt, I have cor- 
rected them, for instance I have spelt Cypsellus, with two ls, 
this being correct. Again Jthaginis can be nothing but iSayevijs 
“ noble,” “ genuine,” and I have accordingly spelt it léhagenes ; 
while Esacus can only be derived from aicaxos (inappropriate 
as the term is), and I have therefore spelt it Msacus ; but I 
have not as a rule dreamt of correcting quasi-irregular com- 
