234 Stejneger, Analecta Ornithologica. [J"ly 



From this, it is needless to say, that Mr. Ridgway's suggestion 

 did not alhide to the Slender-billed Fulmar^ but to the Slender- 

 billed Shearwater. For my own pail I think it just as probable 

 that the bird seen was the dark phase of the bird usually known 

 as Procellaria pacijica of Audubon. The latter name is preoc- 

 cupied by Gmelin's Procellaria pacijica of 178S, and a new one 

 should therefore be provided. I propose to call \\. Fulmar us gla- 

 cialls ghcpischa ('Glupisch' being the name by which the bird 

 is known in the North Pacific). I may add here, that Mr, Nel- 

 son is not quite correct either, when asserting that the only known 

 record of this bird having been captured in Alaska is that of the 

 bird obtained by Mr. Dall. F. H. v. Kittlitz secured a specimen 

 at Unalaschka on August 31, 1828. The bird has been recorded 

 by him under the name of Procellaria ctcrilica Pallas, a syno- 

 nym of Temminck's Procellaria tenuirostris (Denkwiird. einer 

 Reise, I, p. 296). A third specimen is in the maseum at Leiden, 

 said to be from Sitka (Schlegel, Mus. P. B., Procell., p. 26 

 (1S63)). 



X. On Old and New Generic Names. 



The second part of Dr. S. H. Scudder's 'Nomenclator Zool- 

 ogicus. An alphabetical list of all Generic Names .... II. 

 Universal Index to Genera in Zoology. Complete List of Gen- 

 eric Names employed in Zoology and Palsentology to the Close of 

 the Year 1879, as contained in the Nomenclatures of Agassiz, 

 Marschall, and Scudder, and in the Zoological Record' (Bulletin 

 No. 19, U. S. Nat. Mus.), is just out. As the title says, it is a 

 compilation of the already existing four ' Noinenclatores Zool- 

 ogici,' and one might, therefore, confidently expect to find almost 

 all the generic names published vip to 1879. Ornithologists, at 

 least, will be rather disappointed, however. A hurried glance 

 through the work made it apparent that the following generic 

 names, applied to North American birds, are missing, 21 of 

 which are used in the latest Smithsonian List of North Ameri- 

 can birds, prepared by Mr. R. Ridgway : 



AJaj'a., Alle^ Ahtco {Guev'im^ \']6^)^ Calcarius., Canace., Cath- 

 erpes.1 Chamcea., Ciceronia., Clivicola^ Citpidonia^ Felivox^ 

 Florida., Fregetta., Pleteroscelus^ Phcenopepla., Protonotaria., 

 Psaltriparus, Riparia., Salpinctes^ Siniorhynchus (Merrem, 



