GENERIC NAMES APPLIED TO BIRDS DURING THE 

 YEARS 1916 TO 1922, INCLUSIVE, WITH ADDITIONS TO 

 WATERHOUSE'S "INDEX GENERUM AVIUM" 



By Charles W. Richmond 



Associate Curator, Division of Birds, United States National Museum 



This is the fourth list ' of generic names of birds compiled by me 

 to serve as supplements to Waterhouse's ''Index Generum Avium." 

 It is not as extensive as the previous Usts, owing to several circum- 

 stances, chief of which is that the literature has been fairly well 

 searched by this time and further omissions from Waterhouse are not 

 easy to find. 



There are about 435 names listed beyond, of which 378 were pro- 

 posed during the period of 1916 to 1922; the remainder consist for 

 the most part of names hitherto overlooked, a majority of them 

 brought to light through the researches of Messrs. Mathews and Ire- 

 dale. As in the previous supplement, the derivation of names is 

 added when supplied by the original author. 



I am indebted to several friends for calling attention to certain 

 names that had been missed: Thomas E. Penard furnished the ref- 

 erence to Bruhru, Dr. Herbert Friedmann that to Demelioteucus, Dr. 

 A. Wetmore that to Fontinalis, and E. C. Stuart Baker gave me a 

 clue to the origin of Cursonia, while K. L. Skinner furnished me with 

 a copy of the paper in which the last name was published. Dr. 

 Nagamichi Kuroda kindly sent references to the new names in 

 Momiyama's ''Birds of Micronesia," a work that was until recently 

 inaccessible to me. 



In the third supplement there were some omissions of page 

 references, and certain errors have been since discovered, all of which 

 may be conveniently mentioned or corrected here. 



•The earlier lists were as follows: " List of generic terms proposed for birds during the years 1890 to 1900 

 inclusive, to which are added names omitted by Waterhouse in his ' Index Oenerum .\vium ' " (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, No. 1267, May 2, 1902, pp .663-729); " Qeueric names applied to birds during the 

 years 1901 to 1905, inclusive, with further additions to Waterhouse's 'Index Generum Avium'" (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, No. 1656, Dec. 16, 1908, pp. 583-655); "Generic names applied to birds during the 

 years 1906 to 1915, inclusive, with additions and corrections to Waterhouse's 'Index Generum Avium "' 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, No. 2221, Aug. " 16"=25, 1917, pp. 565-636). 



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