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has no reference, is, in the opinion of the Committee, 

 indeterminable and should be rejected. 



Genus FALCO. Type by subsequent designation of the 

 A. 0. U. Check-List Committee (A. 0. U. Check-List, 

 2nd ed. 1886, p. 103) : F. subluteo Linn. 



Falco aesalon. Hartert, in the Hand-list of British Birds, 

 rejects this name as being a " nomen nudum " and uses 

 in its place Falco reaulus Pall., 1773. If Timstall's 

 work, however, be examined, it will be seen that lie 

 refers to " 1'Emerillon " of Brisson, which is undoubtedly 

 our Merlin, and this reference appeal's quite sufficient to 

 fix Tunstall's name. 



Falco naumanni. This is undoubtedly the oldest name and 

 was used by Sharpe in 1874, but rejected in the 1st 

 edition of the List and by Saunders. The work, an 

 Almanack of Forestry, in which the description appeared 

 is an obscure one, but there is a copy in the British 

 Museum Library. 



Genus PANDION. Type by monotypy : P. lialiaetus (Linn.). 



Genus PHALACROCORAX. Type by tautonymy : Phalacro- 

 corax phalacrocora.v Briss. = P. carlo (Linn.). 



Genus SULA. Type by tautonymy: \_Sida] sitla Briss.= 

 S. leucogastra (Bodd.). In the A. 0. U. Check-List 

 (3rd ed. 1910, p. 60) Sula piscator (Linn.), the Red- 

 faced and Red-legged Booby, is given as the equivalent 

 of Sula sula Brisson. But a reference to Brisson's- 

 description will show that Brisson's Sula sula is the 

 Brown Booby, the earliest binomial name for which is- 

 Sula leucogastra (Bodd.). Pelecanus sula Linn., 1766, 

 cannot be identified with the Brown Booby or with. 

 \_Sula~\ sula Brisson. 



Genus ANSER. Type by tautonymy : Anser anser (Linn.). 

 Anser anser. For the change in this name see fiuteo buteo,. 

 p. 370. 



