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 GENERUM AVIUM." 
By Charles W. Richmond, 
Assistant Curator, Dirision of Birds. 
^iv. F. H. AYaterhouse's Index Generuiii Avium, comprisino- a list 
of the generic and subgeneric terms proposed in the class Aves from 
the time of Linna?us down to the sunniier of 1889. is a work of much 
value to the systematic ornithologist, and one of unusual accuracy — 
every reference, with a half dozen exceptions, havingibeen veritied by 
its author. 
The continued activitA' of workers in this branch of zoology during 
the past decade, both in the introduction of new names and the resur- 
rection of old and forgotten ones, has rendered necessary the pul)li- 
cation of a supplementary list. In compiling such a list the present 
writer has made use of a card catalogue ^ now in course of preparation 
in the Division of Birds of the United States National Museum, Avhich 
contains references to most of the genera and species described in 
recent 3^ears, as well as to many of earlier date. 
Out of about 675 names enumerated in the following pages 475 have 
been instituted as new since the appearance of the Index; the remainder 
consist of terms overlooked by Waterhouse, or used b}' him either 
without proper citation or as homonyms of other genera (c. g.. Plcuhis). 
No eflort has been made to swell the list of names omitted in the Index, 
but the fact that nearly two hundred names" here given were used 
^ This card catalogue was begun in 1889 and has been carried along more or less 
actively since 1893. It now contains over twenty thousand entries, and is intended 
eventually to contain a reference to every described avian genus and species, includ- 
ing both living and fossil forms. In the case of species the type locality, collector, 
date, sex, and location of the type specimen are given; on generic cards are indicated 
the class of data followed in the ensuing list. 
-Not including terms leased on " bird tracks," of which there are numbers, such 
as Amblom/x, Ancyropus, Argozoum, Batradiopus, Brontozoum, Calopus, Eubrontes, Fuii- 
copiis, Grallator, Harpedactylus, Ornithopus, Palamopus, Platypterna, Pledropus, Sau- 
ropus, Sillimanius, Steropoides, Trisenopus, Tndentipes, and Typopus, all proposed by 
Hitchcock. 
Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIV— No. 1267. 
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