A.OO Correspondetice. [October 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



\Correspondeiits are requested to write brie Ay and to the point. No attention will 

 be paid to anonymous com'mujiicationsP[ 



The Generic Name Troglodytes. 



To THE Editors of The Auk : — 



Sirs: Is there not a universally accepted rule among scientists, that 

 the same generic name cannot occur twice in the nomenclature of the 

 a,niiTial kingdom? How is it, then, that in the family Simiadse (Mamma- 

 lia) there is a genus Troglodytes, and that in the family Troglodytidse 

 fAves) the the same generic name occurs? I am merely asking for infor- 

 mation concerning what appears to me to be a standing violation of a very 

 necessary rule. Yours sincerely, 



Ottawa, July 7, 1884. W. L. Scott. 



[The name Troglodytes has priority in ornithology, having been 

 proposed by Vieillot in 1807. E. Geoffroy, in 1812, adopted the same name 

 for a genus of anthropoid apes, and its continued use in mammalogy is 

 in violation of the very important and almost universally accepted rule 

 that the same generic name cannot be employed twice in the same king- 

 dom. The apes referred by Geoffroy to Troglodytes were long since pro- 

 vided with other generic names, which are employed for them by careful 

 authors, to the exclusion of Troglodytes in that connection. — J. A. A.] 



Strickland as an Advocate of 'Linnaeus at '58.' 



To THE Editors of the Auk : — 



Sirs: In a copy of Moehring's 'Avium Genera,' 1752, examined in 

 the Stricklandian library in the museum of Cambridge, England, I find 

 written on the fly-leaf the following, in the handwriting of Mr. Strick- 

 land : — 



"Moehring's Genera are 7iot to be adopted, being six years prior to 

 1758, the date of Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, in which the bitiomial system 

 was first introduced. H. E. Strickland." 



This would seem to show that the person whose name is most closely 

 connected with the Code of Nomenclature which takes Linnaeus at '66 

 was himself a '5S-er. 



Mus. Cantab., 15 June, 1884. Elliott Coues. 



Indian Bird Names. 



To the Editors oe the Auk : — 



Sirs: The July issue of 'The Auk' contains an article by Mr. W. W. 

 Cooke, entitled 'Bird Nomenclature of the Chippewa Indians.' The 

 article is an interesting one to ornithologists, but it possesses an equal if 

 not a greater value to ethnologists. It is chiefly for the latter reason that I 



