iSSs-] Stejneger, Analecta Ortiit/iologica. AC 



him in lieu of Coturnix,* I shall only call attention to Ortygis 

 Illiger, 1S11. Bestowing this name upon the genus best known 

 as Turnix he evidently transliterated the Greek opru|, which lie 

 quotes in parenthesis after the Latin appellation. There are 

 other Latin transcriptions of the same name, Ortygia and 

 Ortyga, and the reason why Illiger did not select the strict trans- 

 literation Ortyx was probably that in ancient Latin the latter is 

 only used for a plant. 



Ortygis and Ortyx are identical in meaning and derivation, 

 only differing in their grammatical ending, and consequently the 

 latter will have to give way. 



The next name for the genus is Lesson's Colinus (Nuttall's 

 Colinia was given four years later without knowledge of Lesson's 

 name) , derived from the vernacular French name Colin "con- 

 tracted by Burton from the barbarous appellation of some Mexi- 

 can species," for instance Acolin, Cacacolin, Ocacolin, etc. 



The synonymy of the genus stands as follows : 



Genus Colinus Lesson. 



iSrcj. — Ortyx Stephens, Gen. Zool. XI, p. 376 (type O. borealis = vir- 

 ginianus Linn.) (nee Ortyx Oken 1816, nee Ortygis Illig. 

 1S11). 



1826. — Ortygia Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 977 (same type). 



1S2S. — Colinus Lesson, Man. d'Orn. II, p. 190 (same type). 



1832. — Colinia Nuttall, Man. Orn. Landb. p. 646 (same type). 



1854. — Philortix Des Murs (nee Gould 1845). 



The names of the North American species are therefore : 

 480. f Colinus virginianus {Linn.). Bob-white. 

 480a. Colinus virginianus floridanus {Cones).' Florida 



Quail. 

 4S0 /;. Colinus virginianus texanus {Lawr.). Texan 



Quail. 

 4So. a Colinus gray soni {Lawr.). Grayson's Quail. 



Any one having the opportunity of ascertaining the true nature of the above 

 quotation would confer a favor upon the author by publishing a brief statement of it 

 in the next number of 'The Auk.' — Since the above was written Mr. Allen has been 

 kind enough to look the matter up, and has communicated to the author an extract 

 from Oken's work, from which it is evident that he used Ortyx instead of Turnix, and 

 not, as I supposed, for Coturuix. It is only necessary to quote the following: "I. 

 Gattung. Ortyx, Turnix, Tridactylus, Queil; Hiihnerschn. massig, schmiichtig, Nasi, 

 in Mitte, Kopf befiedert," etc. Oken simply 'emended' Illiger's Ortygis. 

 t Ridgway's 'Nomenclature,' 1881. 



