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Fuligula Steph. 1824, becomes Marila Oken, 1817. — Oken 

 in Isis for 1817, p. 1183, as already pointed out by Dr. Gill, 1 

 gave names to many generic groups of Cuvier's Regne Animal, 

 for which that author had merely used vernaculars. Among them, 

 on p. 1183, is Marila for Cuvier's group "Les Millouins," the 

 type of which is Anas marila Linn, by tautonomy. This will 

 therefore replace subgenus Fuligula of the Check-List, and inas- 

 much as it is earlier than Nyroca, the other subgenus, it will have 

 to be used as the generic name for this group. So in place of 

 Aythya with subgenera Aythya and Fuligula we shall have Marila 

 with subgenera Nyroca and Marila. 



Camptolaimus Gray, 1841, becomes Kamptorhynchus Eyton, 

 1838. — Gray in his List of the Genera of Birds 1841, p. 95, pro- 

 poses Camptolaimus in place of Kamptorhynchus Eyton, without 

 comment. Baird quotes the latter as a synonym in Birds of North 

 America, adding "not of Cuvier" but as neither Dr. Richmond nor 

 I have been able to find any use of this name by Cuvier it would 

 seem that Eyton's name (Monog. Anat., p. 57) must be restored. 



Clangula Leach, 1819, and Harelda Stephens, 1824. — It has 

 been recognized that the substitution of Clangula Leach for 

 Glaucionetta Stejneger and the revival of Harelda Steph. for the 

 Oldsquaw, as published in the eighth Supplement to the Check- 

 List, was a mistake since Leach in 1819 (Ross, Voyage, App. p. 

 xlviii) based his genus Clangula solely upon the Oldsquaw. In 

 Oken's review of Cuvier already mentioned, however, we find on 

 page 1183 the genus Clangula established in 1817 on Anas clangula 

 Linn., so that in light of this earlier action the names will remain 

 as at present. 



Querquedula Steph. 1824, becomes Querquedula S. G. 

 Gmelin, 1770. — Originally used in Reise Russ., p. 70; type, by 

 tautonomy, Q. prima (Anas querquedula L.). 



Gallinago Leach, 1816, becomes Gallinago Koch, 1816. — 

 Koch, Syst. Baier. Zool., I, p. 312; type by tautonomy G. media 

 (Scolopax gallinago Linn.). 



Leach's name is a nomen nudum but is in any case antedated by 

 Koch. 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, p. 965. 



