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On p. 183, under the name " Jaseur," Dumont dis- 

 cusses the genus names Bombycilla Vieillot and Bombycivora 

 Temminck, and proposes their rejection in favour of 

 the new genus name Garrultjs, p. 184, and would supersede 

 also the specific names, introducing for the Bombycivora 

 garrula of Temminck the names Garrultjs europ^eus or 

 major, and for the Bombycilla cedrorum of Vieillot the 

 names Garrultjs americanus or minor. None of these 

 names appear hi the Catalogue of Birds and now necessitate 

 an alteration. 



Some thirty odd years afterward Verreaux (Rev. Mag. 

 Zool. 1857, p. 439, pi. xiv.) proposed Garrulus minor for 

 a Jay, and this was used in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. III., 

 p. 96. Hartert (Vogel. Palaark Fauna, Vol. I., p. 31) 

 maintained Verreaux's name for a subspecies of Garrulus 

 glandarius, sinking as a synonym Garrulus osnops Whitaker, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. VII., p. xviii. As Verreaux was 

 anticipated in his introduction by Dumont, Whitaker's name 

 now becomes available for the Jay. 



In the XXVth Volume, pp. 5 and 6, Dumont renamed 

 the two Skuas, confusing both species with the narrow long 

 tail-feathers under one name, proposing for the mixture 

 Lestris longicaudus : for Temminck's Lestris pomarinus 

 the name Lestris brevicaudus was preferred. Neither 

 of these synonyms appear in the Catalogue of Birds. 



In the XXVIth Volume Dumont, dealing with Finches, 

 associated the Goldfinch, Siskin, Linnets and Serins with 

 many extra-European forms under the genus name Carduelis. 

 He introduced two new names, Carduelis communis, p. 528, 

 for Fringilla carduelis Linne and, p. 548, Carduelis canar- 

 iensis for Fringilla canaria Linne, neither of which appear 

 in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XII., nor yet in Hartert's 

 Vogel. Palaark Fauna. 



In Vol. XXVII. , p. 215, Dumont proposed Oriolus para- 

 diseus as a new name for Oriolus aureus Linn., in whose 

 synonymy in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. III., p. 186, it is 

 not included. 



