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is a plate of the so-called Legriocinelus, which, there is no difficulty 
in perceiving at a glance, is a member of Lafresnaye’s genus Ram- 
phocinclus, and so closely resembling the R. brachyurus, the type of 
that genus, as to leave little doubt that the two generic names are co- 
equal. But if Lesson’s locality is correct (Vera Cruz), which, how- 
ever, I am hardly inclined to believe, the Legriocinclus mexicanus may 
possibly be a new species of this peculiar form—hitherto considered 
as confined to the Antilles, but thus extended geographically to the 
mainland. 
Three species of Ramphocinclus only are given by Lafresnaye 
in his article in the ‘Revue Zoologique’ (1843, p. 67). Of the 
first of these—-the type of the genus-—-R. brachyurus (Turdus 
brachyurus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xx. 255, et Enc. Méth. p- 655), 
the Paris Museum contains several fine examples from the islands 
of S. Lucia and Guadaloupe. Vieillot says his bird was from 
Martinique, which is very probable, as that island is situate between 
the other two. 
Upon reading attentively Lafresnaye’s description of his second spe- 
cies of the genus R. tremulus, I think there can be little doubt that if 
not absolutely identical with, it is at all events a very close ally of 
the bird, which Mr. Gould described in these Proceedings, as long 
ago as 1835, under the name of Stenorhynchus ruficauda. There 
are two specimens of this bird in the British Museum, from the 
island of Nevis. 
Stenorhynchus, having been previously employed in Zoology, was 
changed by Mr. G. R. Gray in 1840 to Cinelocerthia. 
Prince Bonaparte, in his ‘Conspectus’ (p. 223), has somehow or 
other confounded the third species of this same genus along with 
Campylorhynchus scolopaceus of Spix which is quite a different form 
and is the type of the wren-like genus Campylorhynchus, and Thryo- 
thorus longirostris of Vieillot, which he likewise quotes as synony- 
mous, is, I believe, a true Thryothorus. Again, Zoothera cinclops 
of the same work (p. 253), since generified into Cinclops (Cinelops 
melanoleucus of Mr. G. R. Gray’s lately published List of genera), 
seems to be nothing more than a bird of this genus—probably 
R. brachyurus, though it is dangerous to draw positive conclusions 
from so meagre a description. 
Under these circumstances I propose to reduce into one group, or 
at all events to place in close juxtaposition, the following six generic 
terms, some of which have hitherto been arranged in widely different 
families :— 
1, SrENoRHyNCHUS, Gould (1835), P. Z. S. p. 186. 
2. Crnciocertaia, G. R. Gray (1840), List of Gen. p. 22. 
3. Rampnsocincuius, Lafr. (1843), Rev. Zool. p. 66. 
4. Herminierus, Lesson, ubi? 
5. Leeriocincius, Lesson (1847), Deser. d. Mamm. et Ois. 
a ae 
6. 
Pp . 
Cinctoprs, Bp. (1854), Notes Ornithologiques, p. 25. 
