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districts, but who adds a mass of information to the natural 

 history of a country such as Mr. Jackson has done. 



With great regret I have refrained from giving a com- 

 parative table of the species of the Elgon district, such as I 

 gave in my account of Mr. Whitehead's Kina Balu collec- 

 tion {' Ibis/ 1891, p. 274), but " the time is not yet ! " Until 

 we know more of the ornithology of the other great moun- 

 tain ranges of Central Africa, of Kenia, of Ruwenzori, of the 

 other mountains which probably occur in succession till the 

 Peak of the Camaroons is reached, it is impossible to form a 

 just comparison of their respective avifaunas ; but it is certainly 

 interesting to find that in his latest paper on the Birds of 

 the Camaroons (J. f. O. 1892, pp. 177-195) Dr. Reichenow 

 records several Uganda species (such as Pedilorhynchus stuhl- 

 manni and Lanius mackinnoni) , showing a still closer con- 

 nection between the birds of Elgon and the Camaroons than 

 was evidenced even by the presence of such allied species as 

 Trachyphonus jmrpuratus and T. elgonensis, Heliobucco cine- 

 reiceps and H. honapartii, and others. 



XLVI. — Remarks an the connect Generic Name of the Linnets, 

 By The Editor. 



Dr. Sharpe (Cat. Birds, xii. p. 235), Mr. Howard Saunders 

 (Manual of British B. p. 179), and other British Ornitholo- 

 gists, apparently misled by Dr. Stejneger, have lately altered 

 the generic name of the Linnets to Acanthis. But I cannot 

 at all agree with Dr. Stejneger's arguments (' Auk,' i. p. 115) 

 on this subject. Bechstein, in his ' Ornithologisches Tasclien- 

 bach ' (1802), arranged the fourteen species of the genus 

 Fringilla which he recognized in four subgenera, giving 

 short characters (taken from the shape of the bill and 

 from the nature of the food) to each of them. The list of 

 his subgeneric sections and species is as follows : — 



a. Fringilla. 



1. F. ccelebs. 4. F. moutana. 



2. F. montifringilla. 5. F. petronia. 



3. F. domestica. 6. F, nivalis. 



