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combinations in the same article are there included. Had it 

 been recorded, the error would not have occurred in the 

 B.O.U. List. 



In the Supplement to Vol. I., p. 88, Morphnus is introduced 

 as of Cuvier : and on p. 89 Cymindis is also named. This 

 appears to be the first publication of these names, as the 

 volume was received October 12, 1816. Cuvier's Regne 

 Animal, from which they are commonly quoted, is dated 

 1817, but was actually published December 7, 1816, as 

 recorded by one of us (Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII. , 

 p. 18, 1911). The names, however, were used by Dumont 

 in the Cuvierian sense, so no alteration, save in the reference, 

 is necessary. 



In Volume IV. Dumont monographed the genus Bucco, 

 and most of these names appear in the Catalogue of Birds, 

 Vol. XIX. On p. 52, however, he proposes Bucco variegattjs 

 as a new name for Bucco tmnatia Linn.==Gmelin and also 

 suggests brasiliensis as an alternative. These names are 

 missing from the Catalogue of Birds synonymy. 



On p. 56 Dumont introduced Bucco torquatus, which we 

 find in use (Cat. Birds, Vol. XIX., p. 24) for a species of . 

 Melanobucco. On p. 195 we however observe^ that a species 

 is called Malacovtila torquata based on Bucco torquatus Hahn 

 1822 (Vogel. Lief 13, tab. 5). Of course this second usage 

 is invalid, but this seems to have escaped the notice of the 

 keen-eyed workers on South American Ornithology, as the 

 latter appears in Brabourne & Chubb's List of the Birds 

 of South America published in 1912, p. 165. There seems 

 to be a ready-made substitute in Bucco striatus, Spix 

 Avium, sp. nov. Brasil, Vol. I., p. 52, pi. X2, f. 2, 1824, 

 described from Rio de Janeiro. 



On p. 63 Dumont introduced Limosa vulgaris as a new 

 name for Scolopax limosa Linne = Gmelin ; Limosa varia, 

 p. 64, and p. 66, Limosa rufa as a new name for S. lapponica 

 Linn., and on p. 202, Scolopax gallinacea for S. major : 

 none of these appear in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XXIV. 

 In Volume V. Dumont, under the heading " Buse," 



