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55. Charadrius niger. 

 Ardea garzette major. 

 Anas javana ! 

 Buceros scutata ' 



56. Ardea nsevia ! 

 Sterna maxima ! 



The preceding are the names to which " mihi " is not 

 appended, and it will be noted that the large majority of them 

 are included in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British 

 Museum, such being marked ! 



We propose to deal with the omissions in the order of 

 Boddaert, and would observe that some have already been 

 picked up by other workers and appear in the Amer. O.U. 

 Check List 1910, as p. 41, Muscicapa citrina, this appears in 

 that List on p. 324. 



Further, typographical errors abound, and according to 

 Opinion 26 of the International Commission these may be 

 corrected. Consequently we do not think that our friend 

 Mr. Claude Grant's retention of Boddaert s Cuculus caprius 

 will prove acceptable, as it is obviously simply a Boddaertian 

 error for " cupreus " : two lines below will be seen " mantana," 

 and Alca appears as Ahea on p. 47, Alca on p. 55, and Alia 

 on p. 58. If such misprints were acceptable as valid names 

 Ahea would be the genus-name for the Tufted Puffin and 

 replace Lunda in the Amer. O.U. Check List, 3rd Ed., 1910, 

 p. 25. We do not anticipate such a procedure. 



The trinomials in the book provide some puzzling questions, 

 as in some instances Boddaert seemed to have named the birds 

 subspecifically, in others subgenerically. Thus, the first 

 usage cannot be determined, as " Fringilla Carduelis Capensis " 

 is written, and it cannot be guessed whether Carduelis 

 was specifically intended or subgenerically proposed. This 

 name is not cited in the Cat. Birds, Vol. XIII. , p. 230, as a 

 synonym of Pyromelana oryx (Linne) and there is also a prior 

 Fringilla capensis of Miiller 1776, while Fringilla carduelis 

 is a Linnean species and Carduelis is a Brissonian genus. 



