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provided for his No. 163 the above name (p. 49) and this is 

 two years earUer than Linne's name. Consequently, on the 

 data, the name of the Jack Snipe must be Lymnocryptes 

 minima (Briinnich 1764) and not L. gallinula (Linne 1766) as 

 commonly accepted by the best ornithologists. 



Phoenicopterus {ruber) antiquorum Temminck. 



When the Brit. Orn. Union's List was prepared it was 

 noted that the name of the Flamingo needed consideration, 

 and as Pallas's name could not date from 1811 but should 

 be postdated to 1827, Temminck's name of P. antiquorum of 

 1820 would come into use. Specific value was given to the 

 form and P. antiquorum Temminck 1820 was used. 



Hartert, in his Vogel Palaarktischen Fauna, heft x. , 

 p. 1266, March 1920, has used the same name, but has called 

 the bird P. ruber antiquorum Temminck 1820. His first 

 synonym is, however, Phoenicopterus major Dumont, Diet. Sci. 

 Nat., XVII., p. 96, 1820, so that criticism was demanded. 

 Though the exact dates of both pubhcations had been worked 

 out and pubhshed (in order to meet such cases) by Mathews 

 no note was taken. As the works in question were received 

 by the French BibUotheque on July 22 and October 20 the 

 same year, the facts appear simple. Dumont's work was 

 received on the earUer date and his name has priority, but it 

 does not refer to the European fonn. 



In the same heft, p. 1238, Hartert has used Egretta alba 

 modesta (Gray) for the Indian- Mala j^an-Austrahan Great White 

 Heron. 



He admits, however, that the measurements do not 

 agree and that the type appears to be missing; we are 

 not accepting this conclusion and do not know why he 

 selected Gray's name, although we now find that it has 

 priority, but have not seen any published account of the 

 fact. 



The Bernacle Goose. 



Previous to reference to Hartert's Vogel Palaarktischen 

 Fauna we had made this note, but write it thus : In lieft x., 



