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Omithologicus’ Corvus caledonicus. Thus there became a Corvus caledonicus, Gm., and 
a Corvus caledonicus, Lath., the first being a Graucalus, the last a Streptocitta, the first 
being a really New-Caledonian species, the last being only found in Celebes. In 
1850 Bonaparte founded his genus Gazzola, making C. caledonicus, Gm., the type, and 
associating with it the correct synonyms of true C. caledonicus, Gm. Still it is evident 
that Bonaparte was confounding the then unique specimen in the Paris Museum of 
the Celebean black-and-white Crow (which was labelled.“ Corvus dawricus de la Nou- 
velle Calédonie”) with Corvus caledonicus, Lath., the black-and-white Streptocitta; for 
the Prince would never have identified a true Graucalus with either a Pica or a Corvus, 
and he made Gazzola the connecting link between the Garrulide and the Corvidee. 
Thus the elements of confusion were these :—one Corvus caledonicus, Gm.; two species 
under that title in Latham, one of them being described as black and white; a black- 
and-white Corvus in the Paris Museum labelled “C. dauricus de la Nouvelle Calédonie,’— 
only one of the three species being a New-Caledonian bird. Three years later Bona- 
parte partly cleared up the confusion. He (Notes Ornith. /.c.) changed the title from 
Gazzola caledonica (Gm.) to that of Gazzola typica, Bp., on the ground that the type of 
his genus Gazzola was neither of the “deux C. caledonicus, de Latham,”! nor that of 
Labillardiére, nor that of Gmelin. The question now arises whether Corvus caledonicus, 
Gm., ought to be considered the type of the genus Gazzola. It has been so treated by 
Mr. G. R. Gray (Hand-list, no. 1246). But as the Prince has described the species he 
founded the genus on, I have thought it best to retain Gazzola for that species, which 
is the same as Corvus advena, Schlegel. 
MM. Verreaux and O. des Murs (Rev. & Mag. Zool. 1860, p. 432) included Gazzola 
typica, Bp., in their list of New-Caledonian birds, trusting, in all probability, to the 
erroneous locality on the label of the Paris-Museum specimen. 
Srreprocitra, Bonaparte. 
107. Srreprocirra cALEDONICA (Lath.), Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxv. no. 3 (1801), ex Voy. 
Entrecasteaux, ii. p. 226, pl. 35 (39 2), ““ New Caledonia,” errore. 
Pie of New Caledonia, Labillardiére, Voy. Entrecasteaux, Eng. Tr. (Stockdale), ii. p. 227, pl. 39; 
G. R. Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. p. 25. 
Pica albicollis, Vieill. N. D. Sc. Nat. xxvi. p. 128, ex Voy. Entrecast. pl. 39. 
Streptocitta caledonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 382. 
albicollis, Sclater, Ibis, 1859, p. 113; Wallace, Malay Archip. i. p. 430. 
Hab. Macassar (Wallace, fide Sclater ; Mus. brit.). 
Although Labillardiére (J. c.) tells us, very circumstantially, the date and the occasion 
when and where he obtained his Pie de la Nouvelle Calédonie, Mr. Sclater’s explanation 
1 This is a good illustration of the confusion that may be created by not quoting the names of the original 
authors, or by replacing them with the names of subsequent authors, who may haye quoted or misquoted. 
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