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examination of the type, seems doubtful, the first-named 

 is undoubtedly based on the same bird as was later described 

 by Temminck (Plan. Color., 2nd livr., pi. 10, Sept. 1820) 

 under the name Falco lophotes. Fortunately there is little 

 change in the name, but the authority must be quoted as 

 Dumont and the first reference given as above. 



On p. 529 Ficophaga cristata is given as a new name 

 for Ploceus cristatus, and this seems to be the first introduction 

 of this generic name, and is not included in Waterhouse's 

 Genera Avium. 



In Vol. XXI. on p. 266 a good description is given of the 

 bird figured by Levaillant in the Oiseaux d'Afrique, pi. 178. 

 Dumont proposed the name Motacilla aguimp, the specific 

 name being the native name of the bird as recorded by 

 Levaillant. This name seems to have been overlooked, 

 and the bird is at present known under SundevalFs name of 

 Motacilla vidua, given thirty years later. Dumont's name 

 should be restored. 



In Vol. XXII., p. 55, Dumont named the bird figured 

 by Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Promerops, pi. 23, Upupa crocro : 

 this synonym is not included in the Catalogue of Birds, 

 Vol. XVI., p. 14. 



On p. 179 Dumont wrote " tandis que le rale d'eau, rallus 

 aquaticus, est le type du genre Rallus " : this confirms 

 Fleming's type-designation simultaneously made. 



On p. 183 is proposed the new name Hydrogallina 

 cyaniprons for GalUnula carthagena Latham : neither of 

 these names appear in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XXIII. , 

 the bird being apparently indeterminable. 



In the XXIVth Volume, p. 77, the names Jacamerops and 

 Jacamaralcion appear : these names are used in the same 

 sense in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XIX., as of Lesson, 1831, 

 and they should apparently be dated back to this entrance. 



On p. 83 Parra cinnamomea is used of Cuvier : this 

 name does not appear in the synonymy of africana Gmelin, 

 where we would refer it, in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. 

 XXIV., p. 76. 



