1885] PROCEEDINGH OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 409 



NOTES ON SOME APPARENTLY PREOCCUPIED ORNITHOLOGICAL 



GENERIC NAMES. 



By ff^KOIVaARI) STEJIVEOOR. 



1. 



Usually we find Fleming quoted as tbe author who established the 

 genus Glangula. The genus is adopted by Boie^ however, also in 1822, 

 who quotes Cuvier as the authority for the name.* Where the latter 

 has published it I am unable to find, and the earliest date to which I 

 can trace it is 1819, when it is applied by Leach for Anas glacialis Linn, 

 alone, which species, therefore, must staud as the type, unless Cuvier's 

 application of the name has the priority and a different type. As it 

 seems that Rarelda was not published until 1824, Glangula would have 

 to supersede tbe latter. True, Gray (Handlist III, p. 87) quotes "i7a- 

 relda Leach, 181C," but it is certainly not in this author's " Systematic 

 List," nor can I discover any reference prior to 1824. 



Should Harelda, after all, turn out to have the i^riority over " Glangula 

 Leach, 1819," Glangula being a strict synonym of the former cannot 

 be used for the golden-eyes in any case. As all the subsequent generic 

 names bestowed upon the latter group are preoccupied, a new name has 

 to be chosen, for which I propose 



f. GLAUCIONETTA.t 

 SYNONYMY. 



<C1822.—Clangula Fleming, Philos. Zoo]., II, p. 260 {ty])e A. clangula ; nee Leach, 



1819). 

 ^1829. — Glaucion Kaup, Eutw. Europ. Tbierw., p. 53 (same type ; noc Oken, 1816). 

 <^1858. — Bucephala Baikd, B. North Am., p. 79.5 (type A. albeola ; iiec Bucephalus Baek, 



1827). 



The species are : 



-^Glaucionetta clangula (Linn.). 

 ■i-Glaucionetta clangula amcricana (Bp.)'. 

 ^Glaucionetta islandica (Gm.). 



2. 



The name which has been used as the generic term for the Spruce 

 partridge and allied species is preoccupied in zoolog5% for as early as 

 1838 Ganace was applied to a grou^) of dipterous insects by Curtis, while 



* In the first edition of the Efegne Animal (1817), he only defined the group under 

 the French appellation, " Les Carrots"; the word Clangula is not need generically 

 or suhgenerically. 



\yXavHiov, glaucium ; vifrra, anas. Type Anas clangula Linn. 



