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correct reference to Brandt's name is Saxicola albifrons Brandt, 

 Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Vol. II., 

 Nos. 9-10, p. 139, October 9, 1843, and there was previously 

 proposed a Saxicola albifrons by Riippell, Neue Wirbelth 

 Abyssin., pt. 10, p. 78, 1837. Only an expert in Palsearctic 

 forms can decide whether these refer to the same or 

 different birds ; if they be the same, the reference only needs 

 adjustment ; if they differ, then Blyth's name of (EnoMthe 

 deserti atrogularis must be revived. 



Pallas 's Names. 



In the Reise Russ. Reichs., Vol. III., 1776, p. 186, Pallas 

 notes some birds, and adds a footnote : " Es waren Turdus 

 ruficollis und alpinus, Motaxilla cyanura, Emberiza minutai 

 rustica, chrysocilla und spodocephala, Anhang Num., 9, 10, 20, 

 21, 24, 25." 



Reference to the Anhang shows discrepancy in nomination, 

 as follows: No. 9, p. 694, is Turdus ruficollis, but No. 11 

 (apparently an error in writing 10) is Turdus sibiricus ; No. 20, 

 p. 697, is Emberiza pusilla ; No. 21, p. 698, is Emberiza rustica, 

 but Nos. 24 and 25 are Emberiza spodocephala and chrysophrys. 



Whether the earlier note can have any effect on nomen- 

 clature is a debatable point, the reference to the Anhang 

 being the critical item. 



The editor of the French edition, pubhshed a year or two 

 later, recognised this, and has headed the descriptions with 

 attention drawn to the two names, thus " Emberiza pusilla 

 an minuta." Consideration of the first printed names seems 

 necessary. 



ANOTHER OVERLOOKED BIRD LIST. 



In 1817 Thomas Forster published A Synoptical Catalogue 

 of British Birds which is fairly well known, though Hartert 

 recently has omitted reference to it in his Vogel der Palaark- 

 tischen Fauna, and the names are unciuestionably vpJid. The 

 preface begins : " WTien first I read the Catalogue of Birds, 

 newly printed by my friend Dr. Leach, of the British Museum, 

 I found some difficulty in attaching distinct ideas of the species; 



