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Brabournea C. Chubb, Birds Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, 394. 



Type, Thaumasius taczanoivskii Sclater. [Trochilidae.] 



(Original designation and monotA'py.) 

 New name for Thaumasius P. L. Sclater (preoccupied).^ 

 Brubru F. Lafresnaye, Essai d'une nouvelle maniere de grouper les genres et les 

 especes de 1' ordre des Passereau.x, " 1838," 7, 9. 

 Type, "Brubru" of Levaillant [=Lan.ius bruhru Latham]. [Laniidae.] 

 (Tautonymy.) 

 Buccanodon " Verr. 1855 " G. R. Gray, A list of Genera and Subgenera of Birds,* 

 1855, errata. 

 Type, "Buccanodon formosus, Verr." {= Barhatula formosa Verreaux). 

 (Monotyp}-.) [Capitonidae.] 



Buphagoides J. P. Chapin, Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 17, Sept. 16, 1921, 4. 



Type, Tanagra erythroryncha Stanley. [Sturnidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (Subgenus of Buphagus Brisson.) 

 Burhinops A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 203. 

 Type, Oedicnemus capensis Lichtenstein. \Oedicnemidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Butor T. Forster, Pocket Encycl. Nat. Phenomena, 1827, 417. (See Mathews, 

 Austral Avian Record, IV, 1921, 135). 

 Type, Butor stellaris or "common Bittern." [Ardeidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 Butor W. SwAiNSON, in Murray, Encycl. Geography, 1834, 1384, fig. 95.'-. 

 Type, Butor minor SwAiNSON=Ardea lentiginosa Montagu. 



(Monotypy.) [Ardeidae.] 



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

 1922, 256. 

 Type, Anthus caffer Sundevall. [Motacillidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

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

 1922, 217. 

 Type, Cypselus caffer Lichtenstein. [Micropodidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

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

 1922, 261. 

 Type, Loxia melanura P. L. S. MIjller. [Fringillidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (Subgenus of Passer Brisson.) 

 Caffrornis A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 232. 

 Type, "the typical species with dark legs and feet." ' [Tiirdidae.] 



(New name for Cossypha.) 

 CafriUas A. Roberts, Annals Transvaal Museum, VIII, Pt. 4, Oct. 30, 1922, 234. 

 Type, Bradypterus barratti Sharpe. [Sylviidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 



^ Refer also to Butler, Ibis, 1926 ,338. 



'This is apparently Gray's "Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds", of 18)5, "Printed by 

 order of the Trustees ", with a new title page as above, "Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion 

 Court, Fleet Street, 1855, " with a sheet of errata, containing about thirty additional generic names, with 

 their type designations, and including the above additional genus. It is possible the name Buccanodon 

 first occurs in the pubhcation " Ateneo Italiano", a scarce journal that was issued in Paris at that time. 



» W. L. Sclater, Zool. Record, Aves, vol. lix, tor 1922, p. 61, gives Motacilla caffra Linnaeus, as the type. 



