586 Recentlij ])uhHshed Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



In the second note, Chlorospingus goeringi is made the type 

 of a new genus, Orospingus. The third note draws attention 

 to the fact that the generic name of the Inca Tern is Noddi 

 Desmurs vice Inca Jardine preoccupied. The rare Parrot 

 is one from Venezuela, founded by liidgway on some trade- 

 skins from an unknown locality, and named Grammopsittaca 

 lineola maculata. The correct name is apparently Bolbo- 

 rhynchus lineolus tigrinus (Souance). In the last note 

 Mr. Riley controverts Mr. Mathews' and Dr. Oberholser's 

 rejection of the name Anas arcuata Horsfield for the well- 

 known Whistling Teal. 



Rothschild on the name of a Parrot. 



[On the nauaos of certain Parrots of the genus Lariiis 'Qo6.A. = Eclectus 

 Wagl. By Lord Kothschild, F.R.S. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix. 

 1922, p. 411.] 



Lord Rothschild finds that the Red and Green Eclectus 

 Parrot, called roratus by P. L. S. Miiller, is founded on 

 descriptions of a bird by Vosniaer said to have come from 

 Ceylon, but Miiller gives Amboina in the southern Moluccas. 

 Salvadori, however, passed the name over to the bird from 

 the northern Moluccas. In this action Lord Rothschild 

 argues that he is wrong and Miiller's name must be retained 

 for the southern Molucca bird, while the northern one 

 requires a new one. Lord Rothschild proposes to call it 

 Larius roratus vosmaei'i. It appears that Larius Bodd. 

 (probably a misprint for Larius) must be used instead of 

 the better-known Eclectus for this group of birds. 



Sherborn''s Index Animalium. 



[Index Animalium sive Index nominum qute ab a.d. MDCCLVIII. 

 generibus et speciebiis animalium imposita sunt societatibus eruditorum 

 adjuvantibus a Carolo I>avies Sherborn confectus. Sectio secunda a 

 Kalendis Januariis MDCCCI. usque ad iinem Decembris MDCCCL. 

 Part i. Introduction, Bibliography, and Index, A — App. pp. 1-128. 

 London (Trustees Brit. xMui?.), 1922. 8vo. Price 20s.] 



For over thirty years Mr. Sherborn has laboured at the 

 gigantic task of bringing together in one work a list of all 

 the generic and specific names which have been proposed 



