Note/) 



While my lecture ,,On the former and present distribution 

 of the so-called Ratitae" was passing through the press, Lord 

 Brabourne and Charles Chubb began their work on the birds of 

 South America. In connection herewith their investigations led 

 them to the conclusion that Lesson's name of Bhea nandù was 

 merely a substitute name for Linné's B. americana and that the 

 southern bird required a new name. They also discovered that 

 d'Orbigny's name of pennata antedates Gould's darwini by 3 years 

 (vide Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Aug. 191 1). 



The correct names therefore for the 3 species of Rhea will 

 be as follows: 



Bhea americana (Linn.) . . . ' (Sergipe, East Brazil^ 



ex Marcgrave). 



Bhea rothschildi Brabourne & Chubb . . (Argentina). 



Bhea pennata d'Orb (Patagonia). 



Walter Rothschild. 



1) Siehe S. 144 ff. 



