1884.] PROF. FLOWER ON THE GENERA OF DELPHTNID.E. 417 



S. spilonota. 8. cmini. 8. salvadorii. 

 milliin. millim. millim. 



Culmen 23 21 18 



Wing 88 95 95 



Tail 58 58 58 



Tarsus 14± 14 16i 



Poll. c. ung 19 19 22 



The iris is brown in all three species. 



I am much obliged to Capt. G. A. Shelley for the loan of a good 

 specimen of S. spilonota, which it would have been impossible for 

 me to procure from any continental collection known to me. 



The synonymy of the three species of Salpornis is as follows : — 



1. S. SPILONOTA. 



Salpornis spilonota, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 121 ; G. R. Grav, 

 P.Z. S. 1847, p. 7; id. Gen. of B. i. p. 144; Reichb. N. S. pi. 

 xxxviii. ; id. Handb. d. Sp. Orn. Scans, pi. 564 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. 

 i. p. 382 ; id. Supplem. Notes &c, Ibis, 1872, p. 20; Gould, Birds 

 of Asia, pt. xx., fig. bon. ; Ball, Stray Feath. 1874, p. 397, 1876, 

 p. 232, 1878, j). 209; Butler, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 462, 1876, p. 37, 

 1877, p. 228; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 338 ; id. Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 48 (first good descript.), 1866, pp. 228, 365; Blanf. Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 461 ; Adam, Stray Feath. pt. 5 ; Allan and Hume, Journ. As. Soc. 

 of Beng. 1869, pt. ii. ; id. ibid. 1870, pt. ii. p. 113; id. Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 446, 1872, p. 20; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. viii. p. 330. 



Hub. Widely distributed through the jungles of Central India : 

 Chanda, Behar, Oude, Sironcha, Sambhur Lake, &c. 



2. S. SALVADORII. 



Hylypsornis salvadori, Barb, du Boc. Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1878, 

 pp. 198, 211 ; id.Omith. d'Ang. p. 289, t. x. f. 2 (fig. bon.) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 255 ; Salpornis salvadorii, Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 vol. viii. p. 330. 



llab. Benguela in S.W. Africa, "extending across through the 

 Mashoona country into S.E. Africa." 



3. S. EMINI. 



Ilab. Langomeri, Eastern Equatorial Africa (Dr. Emin Bey). 



4. Note on the Names of two Genera of Delphinidce. By 

 William Henry Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., P.Z.S. 



[Received June 10, 1884.] 



In the Revision of the family Defphinida, published in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ' of the Society for 1883, pp. 406-513, I have adopted 

 two generic terms, which, as has since been pointed out to me, 

 are not tenable, being already in use for other forms. I hope, there- 



