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to New Zealand in a former epoch was therefore a very 

 interesting fact in ornithology. 



The Generic term Calodromas. — In February 1884, Mr. 

 Ridgway proposed to change the generic term Calodromas, 

 employed by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in 1873 for a genus 

 of Tinamous, into Calopezus, stating that Calodromas was 

 preoccupied, " having been used for a genus of Coleoptera 

 by Goudot, 1832 (Rev. et Mag. de Zool.)." 



This suggestion unfortunately escaped my notice, and was 

 not alluded to in ' Argentine Ornithology/ where the 

 species in question is called Calodromas elegans (Argentine 

 Ornithology, ii. p. 214) *. 



My attention now having been called to this point, I am 

 not quite sure that I can agree with Mr. Ridgway. The 

 term in question was used in the ' Magasin de Zoologie ' for 

 1832 by Guerin (not by " Goudot in the Revue et Mag. 

 Zool. 1832"), and is there written Calodromus not Calodromas. 



As the terms are not quite identical, and as, judging from 

 what Guerin says in his footnote, the derivations are not the 

 same, I see no difficulty in retaining Calodromas. 



Had both terms been proposed in the same branch of 

 zoology the case might have been different. 



P. L. Sclater. 



Obituary. — George Cavendish Taylor, Jose Augusto de 

 Sousa, Carl Hunstein, Ladislas Taczanowski, Jose Are- 

 valo y Baca, Edward Thomas Booth. — We regret, through 

 inadventence, to have hitherto omitted to record the death of 

 Mr. George Cavendish Taylor, formerly a member of the 

 B. O. U., and well known to many of us. Mr. Taylor died 

 at his residence, 42 Elvaston Place, Queen's Gate, on the 

 30th of July last, at the age of 63 years. 



The second son of the late Mr. Frederic Farmer Taylor, of 

 Chyknell, Salop, Mr. Taylor passed the first portion of his life 



* The term was also omitted in Mr. Waterliouse's ' Index Generum 

 Avium,' and although duly mentioued in the ' Zoological Record ' for 

 1884 ( Aves, p. 67), was not registered in the Index of New Generic Names 

 to that volume. 



