1880.] ON THE NAME OF THE KAFFIR CRANE. 93 



Plate XII. 



Fig. 1. Hyfonomcuta lapidcllus, p. 86. 



2. Psccadia ? cupreonivella, p. 86. 



3. Psecadia monticola, p. 87. 



4. arctostaphylella, p. 88. 



5. suhccerulea, p. 89. 



6. albistrigella, p. 89. 



7. ermineella, p. 90. 



8. hockingella, p. 90. 



9. , larva slightly enlarged . 



9rt. , back view of two segments, mucb enlarged. 



10. Lampronia tripimcfella, p. 92. 



11. — oregonella, p. 91, 



4. On the Synonymy of the Kaffir Crane. 

 By W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived February 17, 1880.] 



The Kaffir Crane is usually termed Balearica regulorum (Licht.), 

 apparently on the authority of Mr. E. T. Bennett, Vice-Secretary of 

 this Society, who, at the meeting held on November 12, 1833, " exhi- 

 bited specimens of Crowned Cranes from Northern and from Southern 

 Africa, with the view of illustrating the characters whicli distinguish 

 as species the birds from these several localities. Their specific 

 distinction, he stated, on the authority of Professor Lichtenstein, 

 had been pointed out, nearly thirty years since, by the Professor's 

 father, who gave to the Cape bird the name of Grus regulorum ; this 

 distinction has, however not been generally known among ornitholo- 

 gists, although to those connected with the Society it has for some 

 time been familiar, from observation both of numerous skins and of 

 living individuals. In the bird of North Africa, for which the specific 

 name of pavoninus will be retained, the wattle is small, and there is 

 much red occupying the lower two thirds of the naked cheeks ; in 

 that of South Africa the wattle is large, and the cheeks are white, 

 except in a small space at their upper part ; the neck also is of a 

 much paler slate-colour than that of the North-African species" 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 118). 



In this communication Mr. Bennett adopted the generic name 

 Anthropoides, Vieill., Mr. Gray advocating the retention of the name 

 Balearica ; but in the ' Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological 

 Society,' 1835, Mr. Bennett described one species only, which he 

 called Balearica pavonica (Vig.); and for this he gave a figure of the 

 Kaffir Crane! 



Neither does the name appear to have been employed by the elder 

 Lichtenstein; for the " Cat. Dupt. Berl. Mus. 1793," quoted by 

 Layard in his ' Birds of South Africa,' appears to be a combination 

 of the Latinized title of ' Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoolo- 

 gischen Museums der konigl. Universitiit zu Berlin, von Dr. H. 

 Lichstenstein,' Beriin, 1823, in which the species is not named, with 

 the date of the following — ' Catalogus rerum naturalium rarissimarum , 



