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  The 
  Editor 
  on 
  the 
  Proper 
  Use 
  of 
  

  

  '^ 
  Amalocichla 
  sclateriana^ 
  de 
  Vis. 
  

  

  " 
  Above 
  rufous 
  brown 
  ; 
  head 
  smoky 
  brown 
  ; 
  the 
  feathers 
  

   of 
  the 
  hind 
  head 
  with 
  fuscous 
  margins. 
  Upper 
  and 
  under 
  

   tail-coverts 
  rufous; 
  chin 
  and 
  throat 
  white, 
  appearing 
  as 
  an 
  

   ill-defined 
  gorget 
  ; 
  the 
  feathers 
  with 
  narrow 
  paler 
  brown 
  

   edges, 
  forming 
  obscure 
  transverse 
  bars. 
  Feathers 
  of 
  the 
  

   upper 
  breast 
  greyish 
  white, 
  with 
  broad 
  smoky-brown 
  margins 
  

   forming 
  an 
  ill-defined 
  pectoral 
  band. 
  Lower 
  breast, 
  sides 
  of 
  

   abdomen, 
  and 
  thighs 
  grey; 
  centre 
  of 
  abdomen 
  white. 
  

   Lores 
  grey 
  mottled 
  with 
  brown 
  ; 
  cheeks, 
  ear-coverts, 
  and 
  

   sides 
  of 
  neck 
  rufous, 
  grading 
  to 
  rufous 
  brown, 
  and 
  edged 
  

   with 
  fuscous 
  brown. 
  Under 
  wing-coverts 
  and 
  surface 
  of 
  

   quills 
  ashy 
  brown, 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  buff 
  spot 
  near 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  webs 
  of 
  all 
  but 
  the 
  first 
  three 
  primaries, 
  the 
  

   spots 
  forming 
  a 
  clearly 
  defined 
  band. 
  Bill 
  black; 
  base 
  of 
  

   lower 
  mandible 
  and 
  feet 
  horn-brown. 
  Length 
  1950 
  millim. 
  ; 
  

   wing 
  103-0; 
  tail 
  71-0; 
  tarsus 
  47*0; 
  gape 
  24-0. 
  

  

  '' 
  Hab. 
  Mount 
  Owen 
  Stanley, 
  British 
  New 
  Guinea." 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Seebohm, 
  our 
  great 
  authority 
  on 
  the 
  Turdidse, 
  does 
  

   not 
  seem 
  disposed 
  to 
  admit 
  Amalocichla 
  into 
  that 
  family. 
  

   He 
  suggests 
  that 
  it 
  may 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  Pittidse, 
  which 
  is 
  

   possible, 
  though 
  not, 
  I 
  think, 
  likely. 
  This 
  point, 
  however, 
  

   can 
  be 
  settled 
  only 
  when 
  specimens 
  are 
  obtained 
  for 
  anato- 
  

   mical 
  examination. 
  

  

  XXV. 
  — 
  JSlote 
  on 
  the 
  Proper 
  Use 
  of 
  the 
  Generic 
  Terms 
  

   Certhiola 
  and 
  Ccereba. 
  By 
  The 
  Editor. 
  

  

  The 
  American 
  ornithologists 
  have 
  recently 
  caused 
  needless 
  

   confusion 
  by 
  proposing 
  to 
  reject 
  the 
  long-recognized 
  name 
  

   Certhiola 
  of 
  Sundevall, 
  and 
  to 
  use 
  in 
  its 
  place 
  Ccereba 
  of 
  

   Vieillot, 
  a 
  term 
  always 
  hitherto 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  ditferent 
  genus. 
  

   This 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  (see 
  Eidgway, 
  ' 
  Manual 
  N. 
  A. 
  '&.,' 
  Ap- 
  

   pendix, 
  p. 
  590) 
  under 
  the 
  mistaken 
  notion 
  that 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  

   Coereba, 
  Vieillot 
  (Ois. 
  de 
  I'Amer. 
  Septentr. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  70), 
  must 
  

   necessarily 
  be 
  Ccereba 
  fiaveola, 
  as 
  being 
  the 
  only 
  species 
  

   actually 
  named 
  when 
  the 
  original 
  term 
  was 
  first 
  introduced. 
  

  

  