i88s-] STEJNEGER, Analecta Ornitkologica. 1 83 



It was not before the following year (1S17) that Cuvier subdi- 

 vided the same genus in a similar manner, retaining, however, the 

 name Phalaropus for the group already named Crymophilus by 

 Vieillot, and giving the name Lobipes to the latter's Phalaropus. 

 The North American species should stand thus : 

 R. 563. Crymophilus* fulicarius {Linn.). Red Phal- 

 arope. 



564. Phalaropus lobatus {Linn.). Northern Phai.- 



arope. 



565. Phalaropus tricolor {Vieill.). Wilson's Phal- 



arope. 



XXVII. Scops Preoccupied ! 



The following note has for its object to call attention to the fact 

 that the generic term Scops, frequently applied to the Little 

 Screech Owl and its allies, is preoccupied in ornithology. 



In 1760 Brisson named the African Umbrette Scopus, a name 

 which Briinnich, the well-known author of 'Ornithologia bore- 

 alis,' twelve years afterwards emended into Scops. In 1772 he 

 published a small octavo volume, called 'Zoologia? Funda- 

 mental a kind of Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom, consisting 

 of synoptical tables in the Latin and Danish languages, particu- 

 larly prepared as a manual to be used by the students at his 

 lectures. All the genera of birds known and recognized at that 

 time are incorporated and characterized ; a few new ones are 

 established and some old ones renamed. To this book we owe 

 the first recognition of the Great Auk as a separate genus, and 

 the name it properly should bear, viz., Plautus. On p. 74 we 

 find the Umbrette characterized as Scops, and that it is not a 

 misprint or lapsus calami is evident from the same spelling of 

 the word occurring on p. 70. 



The first synonym of Scops Savigny is Ephialtes Keys, and 

 Bias. (1840), which, however, is also preoccupied, having been 

 employed by Schrank in 1802 for a hymenopterous insect. 



* Kpvuo's = ice . <j>tX€w = I love. 



t M. Th. Briinnichii | Zoologise | fundamenta | Praslectionibus Academicis | Ac- 

 comodata. | — Grunde | i | Dyrelseren. | — Hafnias et Lipsias MDCCLXXII. | Apud 

 Frider. Christ. Pelt. | — Litteris Godichianis. (1 vol. oct. 254 pp. Birds from 

 p. 50 to p. 93.) 



