V ° 1 i907' IV l Stone, Changes in Generic Names of American Birds. 193 



Coturniculus Bp. 1838, becomes Ammodramus Sw. 1S27. — 

 Cf. Oberholser Smithson. Misc. Coll., Quart. Issue, III, pt. 1, p. 

 67. 



Ammodramus Sw. 1827, becomes Passerherbulus Mayn. 1895. 

 — In the paper above quoted Mr. Oberbolser, finding no name 

 available for the group formerly known as Ammodramus, proposed 

 the excellent name Ammospiza. Dr. Richmond, however, finds 

 the name Passerherbulus proposed for Ammodramus lecontei, a 

 member of this genus, by C. J. Maynard, Birds of Eastern N. A., 

 2d ed., pt. 40, 1895, p. 707, and on grounds of priority it must be 

 adopted. 



Pipilo Vieill. vs. Hortulanus Vieill. — In the introduction to 

 his Oiseaux Amer. Sept., Vieillot used the name Hortulanus for 

 three birds, as follows : H. erythrophthalmus, H. albicollis (Frirv- 

 gilla albicollis L. Gm.), H . nigricollis (Fringilla flavicollis and 

 Emberiza americana Gm.), and gave figures of the bills. The 

 last two species are easily identified by the synonyms in brackets 

 but there is no positive clue to the first one, except through the 

 figure. There being no indication of a type for Hortulanus the 

 first species is to be selected as such, and the acceptance of the 

 name in place of Pipilo will thus depend upon whether or not 

 we consider it recognizable. 



Helminthophila Ridgw., 1882, becomes Vermivora Sw. 1827. 

 — Cf. Oberholser, Smithson. Misc. Coll., Quart. Issue, III, pt. 1, 

 p. 66. 



Galeoscoptes Cab. 1850, becomes Dumetella S. D. W. 1837. 



— Dr. Richmond finds in the Analyst, V, No. XVIII, Jan. 1837, 

 p. 206, a paper by "S. D. W." in which occurs the generic name 

 Dumetella based upon D. felivox or "Cat Thrush of Latham." 

 Latham really called the Catbird "Cat Flycatcher," but Wilson 

 used "Cat Thrush" (Amer. Ornith., II, p. 90) and so did Stephens 

 (Gen. Zool., X, i, 1817, p. 272). The latter also uses the name 

 Turdus felivox. Altogether the name is so obviously based upon 

 the Catbird that it should be adopted in place of the later Galeo- 

 scoptes which is also antedated by Spodesilaura Reichenbach, 1850, 

 Av. Syst. Nat., pi. liii. 



Cyanecula Brehm, 1828, becomes Cyanosylvia Brehm, 1828. 



— Dr. Richmond calls my attention to this earlier name for Mota- 

 cilla suecica L., proposed by Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 920. 



