ART. 15 LIST OF GENERIC TERMS OF BIRDS RICHMOND 19 



Massornis H. C. Oberholser, Auk, XXXVII, No. 3, July, 1920, 455. 



Type, Schiffornis major Des Murs. \Pipridae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 New name for Schiffornis of authors, not of Bonaparte. 

 " naffauv, msijoT; opvis, avis." (Oberholser.) 

 Mastersornis G. M. Mathews, Austral Avian Record, III, No. 4, July 21, 

 1917, 78. 

 Type, Todus rubeculus Latham. [Muscicapidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 New name for Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield (1827), not Myagrus Boie, 1826. 

 Mathewsiella T. Iredale, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XLIII, No. CCLXXII, Nov. 

 29, 1922,39. 

 Type, Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews.-^ [Paradisaeidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 New name for Craspedophora Gray, 1840, preoccupied by Craspedophorus 

 Hope, 1838. 

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

 1922, 257. 

 Type, Anthus vaalensis Shelley. [Motacillidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

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

 1922, 220. 

 Type, Centropus cupreicaudus Reichenow. [Cuculidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

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

 1922,211. 

 Type, Falco rupicoloides A. Smith. [Falconidae.] 



(Monotyp}^) 

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

 1922, 261. 

 Type, Passer motitensis A. Smith. [Fringillidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (Subgenus of Passer Brisson.) 

 Megathiza G. M. Mathews, Birds Australia, X, Pt. 1, Sept. 28, 1922, 1,6. 



Type, Sericornis magnirostris keri Mathews. [Sylviidae.] 



(Original designation.) 

 (Subgenus of Acanthiza, but used as a genus.) 

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

 209. 

 Type, Circaetus cinereus Vieillot. [Buteonidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (Subgenus of Circaetus Vieillot.) 

 Melanalcyon G. M. Mathews, Birds Australia, VII, Pt. II, May 15, 1918, 156, 

 161. 

 Type, Todiramphus funebris Bonaparte. [Alcedinidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

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

 204. 

 Type, Anas sparsa Eyton. [Anatidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 



"The type of Craspedophora is not C. m. claudia Mathews, and if Mathewsiella is a pure substitute 

 name the type should be the same. 



