25 [Vol. xlii. 



the 30th volume of the ' Memoirs of the Academy of Metz.' 

 The name also appears in the ' Eevue et Magazin de 

 Zoologie ' for 1849, p. 532. According to Sherborne, this 

 latter reference dates from November — the first-named 

 appeared "after May.^' I am therefore inclined to take 

 this as the original reference. 



The type of Dendropicos is given by Gray (Cat. Gen. 

 Subgen. Bds. p. 92) as Picus afinis Swainson, a Brazilian 

 species now placed in the genus Dendrohates. Hargitt 

 (Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 293) makes Dendropicus 

 cardinalis (now D, fuscescens) the type. Neither of these 

 two species are mentioned by Malherbe in his original 

 description ; so both these subsequent designations fall. 

 I therefore propose to designate Dendropicus lafresnayi 

 Malherbe the type of the genus Dendropicus. 



Dendropicos obsoletus camerunensis Reichenow, 

 Journ. Ornith. 1918, p. 437. Uam and Bakari, Cameroon. 



This name is preoccupied by Dendropicus camerunensis 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 443 : River Ja, Cameroon — a form 

 belonging to quite another section of the genus ; in fact, 

 the D. obsoletus group is usujilly placed by authors in the 

 genus Yungipicus. It is necessary, however, to provide 

 a new name for the Cameroon Brownback Woodpecker, 

 and I suggest 



Yungipicus obsoletus batesi, nom. nov. ^^ 



Col. Meinertzhagen made the following remarks on a 

 recently described race of Phalaropus fidicarius : — 



In the Bull. B.C. C. vol. xlii. p. 8 (1921), Mr. Iredale 

 described the breeding Grey Phalarope of Spitsbergen 

 as Phalaropus fulicarius jourdaini, on account of the paler 

 and narrower edgings to the feathers of the upper parts. 



The material at Mr. Iredale's disposal was that in the 

 British Museum, of which he says the Palsearctic series was 

 complete and the Nearctic not so extensive. Mr. Iredale 

 had a good series of spring-passage migrants, shot in May, 



