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Alector* B. Merrem, Avium Rariorum ct minus cognitarum Icones et Descrip- 

 tiones, fasc. 2, 1786, 40. 

 Type, Crax alector Linnaeus- [Cracidae.] 



(Tautonymy.) 

 Alterapus G. M. Mathews, Birds Australia, VII, Pt. Ill, August 26, 1918, 264. 

 Type, Chaetura sabini Gray. [Micropodidae.] 



(Original desigination and monotypy.) 

 Amoromyza C. W. Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 53, No. 2221, Aug. "16" 

 (=25), 1917, 593. 

 Type, Merops samoensis Hombron and Jacquinot. [Meliphagidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 New name for Leptornis Hombron and Jacquinot, 1845, preoccupied. 

 Amoropelia G. M. Mathews, Austral Avian Record, IV, No. 6, Aug. 1, 1921, 164. 

 Type, Columba turtur Linnaeus. [Claraviidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 (Substitute name for Turtur Selby, 1835, not Turtur Boddaert, 1783.) 

 Anacarbo A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 205. 

 Type, Graculus neglectus Wahlberg. [Phalacrocoracidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Anacorys A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 260. 

 Type, Mirafra africanoides A. Smith. [Alaudidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 (Subgenus of Mirafra Horsfield.) 

 Anomalaetus A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 

 208. 

 Type, Spizaetus ayresii Gurney. [Buteonidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Anomalanthus A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 

 256. 

 Type, Anthus nicholsoni Sharpe. [Motacillidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Anopetia E. Simon, Notice sur les Travaux Scientifiques, 1918, 38; Revue Fran- 

 gaise d'Orn., VI, No. 120 April 7, 1919, 52. 

 Type, Phsethornis gounellei Bovcahd . [Trochilidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Anthophagus " Lath." J. Jennings, Ornithologia, ed. 2, 1829, 33, 319, 329. (See 

 Mathews and Iredale, Austral Avian Record, IV, 1922, 172, 174.) 

 Type, "A. olivacexis hath." i=Cinnyris affinis Horsfield). 

 ! • [N ectariniidae .] 



(Subsequent designation, Mathews and Iredale, 1922.) 

 Antisyma G. M. Mathews, Birds Australia, VII, Pt. II, May 15, 1918, 154, 161. 

 Type, Alcedo australasia Vieillot. [Alcedinidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Apatelosia E. Simon, Hist. Nat. Trochilidae, 1921, 170, 361. 



Type, Homophania lawrencei Boucard. [Trochilidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 fArcliaeornis B. Petronievics, in Petronievics and Woodward, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1917, Pt. I, April 20, 1917, 5 (note). 

 Type, Archaeopteryx siemensi Dames. [Archaeopterygidae] 



(Monotypy.) 



'The name Alector becomes a synonym of Crax. It was proposed by Merrem not as a substitute name 

 for Crax, but as a comprehensive genus to include Crax, Penelope, and Ortalis. 



