162 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Botanists are not afraid in some cases (e. g. the genus Senecio) 

 to put nearly 1000 species under the same generic head. 



We add a few remarks upon some of the generic terms 

 employed in the fourth volume of the ' Hand-list.' 



We do not think that the well-known generic name Hylo- 

 philus should be rejected in favour of Pachysylma because a 

 genus of Insects had been previously named Hylophila. Picus 

 and Pica are habitually used for two different genera of Birds, 

 and Hylophilus has a still greater claim to be maintained, 

 because its rival Hylophila relates to a different Class of 

 Animals. Dr. Sharpe would have done better, in our 

 opinion, not to have followed Mr. Oberholser's suggestion 

 on this subject. 



We also think that Mr. Oberholser's " correction " of 

 "Aerochai-is" in place of the well-established name 

 "Euryceros " need not have been attended to. Aerocharis, 

 we are able to inform Dr. Sharpe, was proposed by Gistel 

 (Nat. Thierr. p. ix) in 1848 as a substitute for Euryceros, 

 Lesson, 1830, apparently because il Eurycera" had been 

 previously used in Entomology by Fabricius. But in our 

 opinion, as in the case last referred to, it is quite unnecessary 

 to alter a well-known name on such trivial grounds. 



On a third point in generic nomenclature we have the 

 pleasure of agreeing with Dr. Sharpe. It is certainly very 

 doubtful whether Meyer intended his term " Phyllopseusta," 

 used in the plural number for a division of the genus Sylvia, 

 to be employed in a generic sense; and we theiefore 

 quite agree to the maintenance of the well-known term 

 Phylluscopus, Boie, 18'J6, for the " Leaf-Warblers/' as they 

 may be appropriately called — a course followed by Mr. Dresser 

 in his ( Manual/ The term " Phyllopneuste " used by some 

 authors originated in a misprint of Phyllopseusle, made by 

 Boie in the ' Isis ' (1828, p. 321). 



25. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Steganopodes. 



[The Osteology of the Steganopodes. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D., 

 Mem. Carnegie Mus. vol. i. no. 3. Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A. Quarto. 

 Pp. IIP..] 



This is another of Dr. Shufeldt's memoirs on the Osteology 



