Recently published Ornithological Works, 877 



confusion. But our " Priority -hunters " are regardless of 

 consequences when they think thai they ran upset an 

 established came. The same fallacy prevails in the case 

 of " Tiaris" which, according to our view, need not be 

 changed !<> " Charitospiza." Nor docs Tiaris ornata require 

 the new specific name "which Mr. Oberholser has invented 

 For it, because Fringilla ornata of Vicillot belongs to quite a 

 different genus from FHngilla ornata Wied. We prefer the 

 familiar came Tiaris ornata to the new Charitospiza eucosma, 

 and shall continue to use ii in spite of whal Mr. Oberholser 

 and Dr. Richmond (see ' A.uk/ xix. p. 87) may ;i\ ! Nor 

 can we agree to give up Malacopteton because Malacopterus 

 has been used In Entomology. They are not the same word, 

 and their continued use in two different classes of animals 

 cannol lead to any confusion. Who would like to call our 

 Pied Flycatcher Ficedula ficedula ficedula, as Mr. Oberholser 

 suggests? Not the Editors of 'The [bis/ we are sure, nor 

 many <>i its readers, we suspect. We prefer to slick to 

 the good old Linnean name Muscicapa atricapilla. In the 

 I'd si place, many Ornithologists (Dr. Hartert, for one) do not 

 allow the validity of Brisson's genera. In the second place, 

 it is quite uncertain whal Brisson's " Bec-figue" (the type 

 of Id* genus Ficedula) was, and the same may be said of 

 Linnoeus's Muscicapa ficedula. But about Muscicapa atri- 

 capilla I here is no uncertainty. The name has been in 

 universal use since the foundation of the Binomial System, 

 and cannol, in our opinion, be improved upon. 



is. Patterson on the Faunaof East Norfolk. 



[Nature in Eastern Norfolk. By A. II. Patterson. London, L905. 

 8vo. Pp. I 862; L2 col. pis. and map. Price 08.1 



The author of ' Notes of an East Coast Naturalist' sends 

 us another small volume on (lie fauna of the Yarmouth 

 district, which is not only valuable Tor the information it 

 gives of the present effect of the Protection of Birds <>n 

 Breydon \\ ater and iis vicinity, but also Tor the accounts of 

 various worthies whose names we so often hear mentioned in 

 connexion with the Ornithology of Norfolk. Beginning 



