APPENDIX. 375 



desertorum, inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, but in the 

 Vog. pal. Fauna, vol. ii. 1912, p. 851, the specimen in 

 question is referred to the typical form by the same 

 author. 



Genus MEROPS. Type by Linnean tautonymy, and by 

 subsequent designation of Gray (List Gen. Bds. 1840, 

 p. 11) : M. apiaster Linn. 



Genus UPUPA. Type by Linnean tautouymy, and by subse- 

 quent designation of Gray (List Gen. Bds. 1840, p. 11): 

 U. epops Linn. 



Genus ALCEDO. Type by subsequent designation of Gray 

 (List Gen. Bds. 1st ed. 1840, p. 11) : A. ispida Linn. 



Genus CORACIAS. Type by subsequent designation of Gray 

 (Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds. 1855, p. 12) : Coraciasgarrulus 

 Linn. 



Genus FLAMMEA. Type by monotypy and tautonymy : 

 F. vulgaris Fournel = F. flammea (Linn.). 



The Barn-Owl has until recently been generally 

 placed in the genus Strix. The reasons why this 

 generic name cannot be so used will be found in the 

 note on Strix (p. 376). 



The other names proposed for the Barn-Owl are : 



Aluco Fleming, Philos. Zool. ii. 1822, p. 236. 



Tyto Billberg, Synops. Faun. Scand. i. pt. 2, 1828, 

 tab. A. 



Flammea Fournel, Faune de la Moselle, i. 1836, p. 101. 



Hybris Nitzsch, Pterylog. 1840, pp. 27, 100. 



Of these, Aluco is preoccupied by Aluco Link, 1807, 

 for a genus of Mollusca, and Tyto by Tyta of the same 

 author eight years earlier. We have therefore to fall 

 back on Flammea here adopted (see Mathews, Nov. 

 Zool. xvii. 1910, p. 500, and Austr. Av. Rec. i. 1912, 

 p. 104). 



