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Stejneger, Analecta Ornithologica. 



[July 



alpina Nilss.),* that the Siberian Tundra Ptarmigan has been 

 referred, while mutus is said to occur on the mountains of Southern 

 Siberia only.f It will thus be seen that No. 8i of Nelson's list 

 ought to disappear altogether as a separate heading. 



VII. On some Changes necessary in North American 



AND European Ornithological Nomenclature, if 



Generic Appellations previously applied 



IN Botany be not rejected. 



A most superficial examination of a list of genera of birds will 

 soon convince us that quite a number of names are in use both in 

 ornithology and botany, while a closer examination shows that 

 some of the ornithological generic names have been dropped and 

 replaced by others because preoccupied in botany. 



The following short list, picked up at random while hurrying 

 over an alphabetical index, is evidence enough : — 



Acrocephalus, 



Aegialites, 



Are n aria, 



Bartramia, 



Brachyrhamphus, 



Calendula, 



Callicephalus, 



Ciconia, 



Citta, 



Corydalis, 



Corypha, 



Cyanocephalus, 



Dasycephala, 



Diomedea, 



Drymophila, 



Erythrina, 



Glaux, 



Hylophila, 



Linaria, 



Micropus, 



Nectris, 



Pallasia, 



Passerina, 



Peristera, 



Petrophila, 



Phaetusa. 



Platylophus, 



Polysticta, 



Prunella, 



Salicaria, 



Sibia, 



Spathulea, 



Undina. 



Vidua, 



Wilsonia. 



Several of these ai'e also preoccupied in other branches of zool- 

 ogy, and are thus altogether out of question, for instance, Ery- 

 thrifia and Pallasia\ ; others have been in unchallenged use since 



'*Cf. Seebohm's description of two male birds obtained by him on the 22d of July 

 at the Yenisej, in Lat. 71 1-2° — "the throat and breast are rather paler than the back" — 

 and determined by Prof. Newton to be "most probably rupestrls," while not belonging 

 to mutus (Ibis, 1879, p. 148). The similarity of the Siberian bird with rupestris, as 

 distinguished form mutus, was long ago mentioned by von Middendorf. 



t Saunders, Yarr. Brit. Birds, 4th ed. Ill, p. 86. 



\Pallasia was proposed by E. v. Homeyer in 1873 (J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 190) for a 

 genus having Alauda mongolica Pall, for type. The group, being mainly character- 

 ized by the short secondaries, needs a new name, as that given by v. Homevcr is ante- 

 dated by Pa/Zaj^'a Rob. D. 1830 (a dipter.), I propose to call it Pferocorys (iTTepov = 

 ala, Kopvs = galea). 



