MEL MEK 131 



Melithreptus, Vieillot, Analyse, pp. 46, 70 (1816); Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 321 (1817). MELITEEPTFS, Vieillot, 

 Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 600 (1822) ; Galerie d. Ois. i. p. 298, 

 pi. 181 (1825). 



Melitograis, Sundev. Av. Tent. p. 50 (1872). 



Melittarchus, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1855, p. 477; Mus. Hein. ii. 



p. 80 (1859). 



Melittias, Cabanis, Mus. HeiQ. ii. p. 134 (1859). 

 Melittophagus, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316. 

 Melittophas, Reichenb. Handb. spec. Ornith. p. 82 (1852). 

 Melittotheres, Reichenb. Handb. spec. Ornith. p. 82 (1852). 



Melizophilus, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. and Birds Brit. Mus. 

 p. 25 (1816); Forster, Synop. Cat. Brit. B. p. 54 (1817). 



Mellisuga, Brisson, Ornith. iii. p. 695 (1760) ; Merrem, Av. rar. 

 Icones et Descr. p. 14 (1786) ; Vieillot, Analyse, p. 46 (1816) ; 

 Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 545. 



Mellithreptus, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 299 (1831). =MELI- 

 THEEPTUS, Vieillot. 



Melocichla, Hartlaub, Ornith. Westafrica's, p. 58 (1857). 



Melodes, Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirbelthiere Europa's, pp. Iviii, 

 190 (1840). 



Melonetta, Sundev. Av. Tent. p. 149 (1872). 



Melopeleia, Reichenb. Naturgesch. Tauben, p. 22 (1862). =MELO- 

 PELIA, Bp. 



Melopelia, Bp. C. G. A. ii. p. 81 (1854); C. E. xl. p. 98 (1855); 

 Cat. Ois. Eur. p. 21 (1856) ; Ic. Pig., Introd. p. 8 (1857). 



Melophus, Swains. Classific. B. ii. p. 290 (1837). 



Melopsittacus, Gould, Birds of Austr. v. pi. 44, or pt. i. (1840) ; 

 Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 81 (1865). 



Melopyrrha, Bp. C. E. xxxvii. p. 924 (1853) ; C. S. O. p. 13 



(1854). 



Melospiza, Baird, Eeports of Explor. and Surv. ix. pt. 2, Zool. 



p. 476 (1858). HELOSPIZA, ibid. p. 477 (1858). 

 Melozone, Reichenb. Avium Syst. pi. Ixxix. (1850) ; Singvogel, 



p. 36 (1863). MELOXENE, Gray, Cat. Gen. and Subg. B. 



p. 75 (1855). 



Melpoda, Reichenb. Singvogel, p. 26 (1863). 

 Menetica, Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1866, p. 392. 

 Meniceros, Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. p. 335 (1842). 



Menura, Davies, Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 207 (1801); Latham, Ind. 

 Ornith. Suppl. p. Ixi (1801); id. Gen. Hist. Birds, viii. 

 p. 159, pi. cxxiv. (1823). 



Merganetta, Gould, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 95. 



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