﻿378 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Dresser 
  on 
  the 
  Synonymy 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  gives 
  Eversmann's 
  Mountain-Finch 
  under 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  " 
  Montifringilla 
  sordida 
  (Stoliczka) 
  " 
  (J. 
  As. 
  Soc. 
  

   Beng. 
  xxxvii. 
  p. 
  63, 
  1868), 
  and, 
  speaking 
  of 
  Eversmann's 
  

   name 
  " 
  Fringillauda 
  altaica''' 
  says 
  : 
  — 
  " 
  This 
  name 
  is 
  quoted 
  

   by 
  Severtzoff 
  (Ibis, 
  1883, 
  p. 
  60), 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  

   find 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  published. 
  I 
  have 
  very 
  little 
  doubt 
  that 
  the 
  

   oldest 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  species 
  is 
  M. 
  murrayi 
  (Blyth, 
  

   J. 
  As. 
  Soc. 
  Beng. 
  xxxii. 
  p. 
  458, 
  1863) 
  ; 
  but, 
  as 
  Mr. 
  Hume 
  

   is 
  a 
  little 
  uncertain 
  on 
  the 
  subject, 
  I 
  have 
  adopted 
  the 
  one 
  

   by 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  best 
  known 
  to 
  ornithologists." 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  fact, 
  Eversmann's 
  description 
  was 
  published 
  

   in 
  1848 
  {Fi'ingilla 
  altaica, 
  Eversmann, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Imp. 
  Nat. 
  

   Mosc. 
  Bd. 
  xxi. 
  p. 
  223), 
  and 
  consequently 
  antedates 
  both 
  

   Blyth's 
  and 
  Stoliczka's 
  names 
  by 
  many 
  years. 
  The 
  correct 
  

   name 
  of 
  this 
  bird 
  is 
  therefore 
  Mo7itifringilla 
  altaica 
  (Eversm.), 
  

   if 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  Montifringilla. 
  In 
  the 
  

   same 
  volume 
  (p. 
  219) 
  Eversmann 
  describes 
  Alauda 
  longi- 
  

   pennis, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  instance 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  (Cat. 
  B. 
  Brit. 
  Mus. 
  

   xiii. 
  p. 
  581) 
  gives 
  the 
  reference 
  correctly. 
  

  

  I 
  observe 
  that 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  (/om. 
  cit. 
  p. 
  258) 
  cites 
  the 
  genus 
  

   Fringalauda 
  as 
  " 
  Fringillauda, 
  Hodgs., 
  in 
  Gray's 
  Zool. 
  Misc. 
  

   p. 
  84 
  (184i) 
  ;" 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  incorrect. 
  Hodgson 
  defined 
  the 
  

   genus 
  most 
  fully 
  in 
  1836 
  (As. 
  Res. 
  xix. 
  p. 
  158), 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  

   same 
  time 
  described 
  Fringalauda 
  nemoi'icola, 
  this 
  being 
  his 
  

   type 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  but 
  writes 
  it 
  " 
  Fringalanda," 
  which 
  was 
  

   evidently 
  a 
  misprint 
  for 
  '^ 
  Fringalauda." 
  Blyth 
  in 
  1844 
  

   (Journ. 
  As. 
  Soc. 
  Beng. 
  xiii. 
  part 
  2, 
  p. 
  954) 
  noticed 
  this 
  mis- 
  

   print, 
  and 
  proposed 
  to 
  alter 
  the 
  name 
  to 
  Fringillauda. 
  In 
  

   Gray's 
  Zool. 
  Misc. 
  p. 
  84, 
  the 
  reference 
  is 
  in 
  a 
  bare 
  list 
  of 
  

   birds, 
  without 
  any 
  definition 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  as 
  " 
  Fringilauda 
  

   nemoricola." 
  I 
  may 
  add 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Waterhouse, 
  in 
  his 
  recently- 
  

   published 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  Genera 
  of 
  Birds, 
  gives 
  all 
  these 
  references 
  

   quite 
  correctly. 
  

  

  III. 
  Lanius 
  bogdanowi. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  ''Bericht 
  liber 
  die 
  Februar-Sitzung 
  der 
  allgemeinen 
  

   deutschen 
  ornithologischeu 
  Gesellschaft 
  zu 
  Berlin, 
  No. 
  2 
  

   (1893)," 
  just 
  received, 
  I 
  observe 
  that 
  Hcrr 
  Schalow 
  makes 
  

  

  