190 Dr. J. Murie on the Upupidae. 



that there can be no reasonable doubt of their affinity." He fur- 

 ther says that the Grand Promerops of New Guinea, inhabiting 

 the same regions as the Paradise-birds, from analogy, may be 

 thought to unite that beautiful family with the Hoopoes. 



In the well-known f Genera of Birds/ (1849), George Gray 

 assigns the Upupidse location as a group of the Tenuirostres, 

 in proximity to the Meropidse and Promeropidie. His ' Hand- 

 list of Genera and Species of Birds/ 1869, pt. i., shows a slight 

 alteration, inasmuch as the Galbulidse intervene between the 

 Upupidse and Meropidse. In his Upupidse there are three 

 groups — 1. Upupinse, 2. Irrisorinse, 3. Epimachinse. The first 

 contains Upupa; the second, Irrisor, with the rejected sub- 

 genera Lamprolophus, Cyanepops, Scoptelus, and Rhinopomas- 

 tus ; the third gathers under its fold Ptilornis (and the dis- 

 carded subgenus Craspedophora) , Epimachus (Seleucides and 

 Semioptera) , and Falculia. 



In the ' Ornithologist a System'* of Professor Sundevall the 

 Oscines ambulatores contain three : — 1 . Paradisides ; 2. Epima- 

 chides ; 3. Corvides. As genera in No. 2 there are Epimachus, 

 Irrisor, Rhinopomastus, Arachnothera, and Upupa. The same 

 author, c Svenska Foglarna' (1856) , groups subsidiarily by foot- 

 structure, and looks upon the Hoopoe as allied to the Larks. 

 My attention, furthermore, has been called by Dr. Sclater to 

 a still more recent workf of Sundevall's. The publication 

 in question is as yet incomplete; but that published con- 

 tains sufficient for my present purpose. The order Oscines 

 holds precedence and place. First come the series Lamini- 

 plantares, divided and subdivided into cohorts, phalanxes, fa- 

 milies, and genera. Its cohorts are Cichlomorphse [Thrushes] , 

 Conirostres [Finches] ,Coliomorphse % [Crows], Certhiamorphae 



* In K. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 1835. 



t Methodi Naturalis Avium disponendarum tentamen ; Forsbk till 

 Fogelklassens Naturenliga Uppstallning : Stockholm, 1872. 



\ In ignorance of Professor Sundevall's having already adopted the term 

 Coliomorphse for the Crows (as a group), I used the self-same term in 

 recognition of the peculiarities and aberrance of the genus Colitis (see 

 'Ibis,' July, 1872, p. 278). Priority resting with Sundevall, I herewith 

 cancel my use of the name, and propose instead the term Pamprodactylje 

 =" having all four toes in front" (naix = tvas, omnis; -irpb, anU, velprer; 

 8aKTv\oi, digitus), for the Coliine group. 



