5*28 Letters. Extracts, a7id Notes. [Ibis, 1918. 



to publish it after submitting it to tlie International Com- 

 mittee was quite justiliible, but tlie correct names under 

 the rules should have been given, and not replaced by 

 noinina conservanda, without the sanction of tlie Committee, 

 as has unfortunately been done. If other countries follow 

 suit and restore discarded names at will, we are bronglit 

 fnce to face with nomenclatural confusion once more. With 

 equal reason might the ornithologists of Hampshire declare 

 that they proposed to return to the scientific names used 

 by Gilbert White! 



Recent events might have taught us that there is a world 

 outside the limits of the British Isles, and that in the 

 United States alone we have an English-speaking nation a 

 hundred millions strong. Surely we gain more by dis- 

 carding the ill-omened name of boschas, to which Mr. 

 Chapman is so devoted, and adopting the strictly correct 

 name oi platyrhyncha, which is known and understood from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



Yours &c., 

 Appleton Rectory, F- C. R. Jourdain. 



Abingdon, Berkshire. 

 3 June, 1918. 



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