iSS4-| SilARPF. 0)1 f/ir doiiis Prn<^)ie. 3^7 



The syno;nni}' of the Liomis stands thus : 



(Jcnus Habia* Reiciib. 



1S50. — riabia Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Natur. pi. Ixxviii ("June 



I, 1S50") ; (type G. melanocephala Sw.)- 

 1851. — Hedyinc/cs Cabanis, Mus. Hein. I, p. 152 ("June, 1851"; ; (tjpc 



L. l/idoz'iciana L. ; nee Hedymcla Sundev. , 1846). 

 iSSo. — Zavielodia Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 98 ("April i88o") ; 



(same type). 

 The species, according to Ridgway's 'Nomenclature,' will stand 

 as : 



244 Habia ludoviciana (Linn.) Rose-breasted Gros- 

 beak. 



245. Habia melanocephala (Swains). Black-headed 

 Grosbeak. 



XVI. — On the Oldest Available Name of 

 Wilson's Phalarope. 



The genus Steganopiis of Vieillot is usually quoted as having 

 been established by that author in 1823 (Enc. Meth., p. 1106). 

 It is, however, to be found as early as 1S19 in the 'Nouveau Dic- 

 tionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle,' vol. XXXII, where it is properly 

 characterized on p. 136. 



An inspection of the same article shows also that the name 

 Steganopus tricolor is there applied to Wilson's Phalarope for 

 the first time, consequently four years earlier than Sabine 

 described the same bird as Phalaropus wilsoni^ as the latter 

 name dates only from the year 1S23. 



The species, therefore, should stand as 



Lobipes tricolor (Vieill.). Wilson's Phalarope. 



A NOTE ON THE GENUS PROGNE. 



BY R. BOWDLER SHARPE, FOR. MEMB. A. O. U. 



Having received on loan from the authorities of the U. S. 

 National Museum the. types of some of the Purple Martins. 



* Le nom Habia est celui qii • quatre esp6ces de cette division \Saltator\ portent au 

 Paraguay, et que M. de Azara leur a impose particuli^rement.' (Vieill., N. Diet. 

 d'Hist.-Nat., XIV, p. 102.) — Abia, as emended by Agassiz, would seem to be derived 

 from a^ios. in the meaning of "poor, without food," but has no connection with the 

 original habia. 



