Auk 
Jan. 
40 CouEs, Zamelodia against Habia. 
term.’ But in drawing the hasty inference from that fact, that 
“ Reichenbach was, therefore, fully justified in applying it [z. e., 
the name /adza| as he did, viz., as the name of the genus having 
the Black-headed Grosbeak for type,’ my commentator proved 
nothing but the fact that his knowledge of the case was deficient. 
Dr. Stejneger evidently thought he had put Zame/lodia to sleep 
forever; but nothing is easier than to show his whole conten- 
tion to be wrong. Meanwhile, //adza has displaced Zamelodia 
unjustly, in the A. O. U. Lists of 1886 and 1895, and very gen- 
erally among American writers since 1884. 
The Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert 
Cuvier’s ‘ Régne Animal’ was published in 1817, and in other 
years. In an edition of the ‘ Animal Kingdom’ which was pub- 
lished in London in 1849, the ornithology of which was edited 
by Edward Blyth, adza appears on p. 711 in the “Index of 
scientific names,’”’ as distinguished from the “Index of popular 
names”; and on p. 184 can be read in plain English as follows : — 
“THE FINCH-TANAGERS (//adza Vieillot)— 
“Have a thick, bulging, conical bill, as broad as high, the 
upper mandible of which is rounded above. . 
“Such are Zan. flammiceps, Pr. Max., 7. superciliosa, psittacina, 
and atricollis, Spix, ete.” 
Now it is true, as Dr. Stejneger contended, and as nobody 
ever denied, that all the vernacular names in certain works of 
Vieillot and of Lesson are printed in a type which distinguishes 
them from the Latin names. Nobody doubts that ‘ Habia,’ as 
used by Vieillot and Lesson, was intended as a French word (after 
the Spanish-American ‘ Hadza’ of Azara), and as a vernacular 
equivalent of the genusname Sa/tator; perhaps Cuvier himself so 
intended it in 1829. But what has that to do with Cuvier’s (or 
his editor’s later use of the name Hadva as a systematic generic 
term for Sa/tator or anything else? Nothing. All the vernacular 
names in the English version of 1849 are typographically distin- 
guished ; and in the present case the author (or editor) incon- 
testibly adopts Vieillot’s vernacular word //adza as the Latin 
name of a genus which includes certain South American Tana- 
