No. 6.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 143 



This is a translation of Latreille's : 



"Leg. Cygne, Oie (Oie, Bernache, Cuv.), Anatique 

 (Macreuse, Garrot, Eider, Millouin, ejusd.), Canard (Souchet, 

 Tadorne, ejusd.)." 



Consequently the names Gryphus, Eurhynchus, Leucopsis, 

 Anatica, Ehynchoplatus and Rhynchoceros need record, but 

 fortunately all are synonyms. It should be noted that Gryphus 

 is not Gryphus Oken 1816, while the type of Anatica may be 

 determined as the type of Macreuse Cuv., the other names 

 giving no trouble. 



ENCYCLOPEDIA LONDINENSIS. 



As a delightful instance of the carelessness of the past 

 generation of systematic ornithologists we call attention to 

 an ariicle published in the Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 

 December 1867, p. 212 et seq. That article was published 

 by J. Cassin, a weU-known ornithologist, and displayed the 

 multitude of new names proposed by an Englishman in an 

 English Cyclopedia. Cassin made some stinging remarks 

 about British ornithologists, but probably never anticipated 

 how little they would be regarded. This most important 

 article has been entirely ignored by the authors in The 

 Catalogue of Birds of the British Museum, and it was pure 

 chance "that indicated its existence to the present writers. 

 How many changes may still be necessary cannot be estimated, 

 as with our present accurate methods of date determination 

 probably many of the names determined by Cassin as synonyms 

 may have priority. Cassin's results show only one name in 

 connection with Australian ornithology, as follows : Motacilla 

 fimbriata Wilkes, Ency. Lond., Vol. XVI., p. 102, 1817 : New 

 South Wales, founded on Le VaiU. , Ois. d'Afr., Vol. III., pi. 130, 

 f . 2, to the synonymy Stipiturus malachurus. We are investiga- 

 ting the others, as in the British Museum (Natural History) 

 Library there is now a beautiful copy. We have referred to 

 a comphcation with regard to African bird nomenclature, and 

 this is the book. As instance, Motacilla luguhris "111." Licht. 

 1819 is based on Le VaiU., pi. 184, f. 1, and according to 

 SundevaU the name of the bird there figured was Dro7nolcea 



