zu  den  „Beiträgen  zur  Ornithologie  Cuba’s.“  183 
Coccoborus  Sw.  Class.  Birds  II.  1837,  277,  some  type. 
(98)  f Goniophea  Bowdich  „Excursions  in  Madeira  1825“  Ägassiz 
type  Loxia  lucloviciana  L.  according  to  Gray.  — Habia  Rei- 
chenbach  Av.  Syst.  nat.  1850  plate  XXVIII.  type  Loxia  lu - 
doviciana  L.;  not.  Habia  Lesson  1831.  — Hedymeles  Cab. 
Mus.  Hein.  1851,  153  same  typus. 
(103)  Mr.  Baird  sagt  als  Einleitung  der  Subfamilie  Icterinae:  „in 
studying  the  North- American  Orioles  I have  found  it  excee* 
dingly  dilficult  to  arrange  them  in  any  sharply  defined  sect- 
ions  as  whatever  characters  be  taken  as  the  basis  of  Classi- 
fication, the  other  features  will  not  correspond.  Thus,  spe- 
cies  with  the  bill  of  the  same  proportions  and  amount  of 
curvature  differ  in  the  shape  and  graduation  of  the  tail, 
while  tails  of  the  same  form  are  accompanied  by  entirely 
dissimilar  bills  and  wings.  The  bill  is  sometimes  much  atte- 
nuated  aud  decurved,  as  in  cucullatus,  while  in  melanoce - 
phalus  and  baltimore  it  is  stouter  and  straighter.  The  tail 
is  usually  much  graduated;  in  I.  baltimore  and  Bullockii  it 
is  only  moderately  rounded.  These  last  mentioned  species 
constitute  the  genus  Yphantes  etc.  Nachher  sagt  er:  In  view 
ot  the  difficulties  attendant  upon  the  definition  of  subordin- 
ate  groups  among  the  United  States  Icterinae , I propose 
to  consider  them  all  under  the  single  genus  Icterus  leaving 
it  for  some  one  with  a fuller  series  of  specimens  at  his 
^ command  to  establish  satisfactory  divisions  into  genera. 
(119)  Im  Journal  belässt  Cabanis  die  Art  Helenae,  da  er  sie  nicht 
kannte,  beim  Genus  Orthorhynchus.  — In  Reports  führt  die 
sehr  ähnliche  Art  Anna  den  Genusname  Atthis.  Reichen- 
bach. Cab.  Journ.  f.  Ornith.  Extraheft  für  1853,  App.  B, 
(123)  Mr.  Baird  setzt  Picus  varius  zum  Genus  Sphyrapicus  Baird. 
Pilumnus  Bon.  Consp.  Zygod.  Ateneo  Italiano,  May,  1854, 
(type  Picus  thyroideus). 
(141)  In  Reports  steht  die  Art  martinica  im  Genus  Oreopeleia 
Reichenbach,  Handb.  der  spec.  Ornith.  I.,  1851,  S.  XXIV. 
type  Col.  martinica. 
Mr.  Baird  sagt  aber  „this  genus  is  placed  by  Bonaparte 
as  a subgenus  of  Geotrygon  of  Gosse. 
(146)  Obgleich  Mr.  Baird  Perissura  Cab.  kannte,  hat  er  doch  Ze~ 
naidura  beibehalten.  [Der  Genusname  Zenaida , als  Stamm- 
wort, ist  zu  Ehren  einer  Frau  creirt!  — Sapienti  sat.  Cab.] 
