No. 2.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 4i 



It shows a pale bill and green thighs. The pale bill may 

 be due to bleaching, although immature birds have pale bills, 

 while the green thighs may be due to the artist. 



We therefore propose to rectify matters by advocating 

 the usage of Saltator cayanus Boddaert in place of Saltator 

 maximus Miiller, as used in Brabourne and Chubb 's List, 

 p. 371. 



Fringdlla canadensis. 



This name, given on p. 13 to pi. 223, f. 2, was not admitted 

 in the Catalogue of Birds, and does not seem to have since 

 been recognised. Consequently the name used for the bird 

 there figured, viz. Spizella monticola Gmelin, still persists in 

 the Amer. Ornith. Union's Check List, 3rd Edition, p. 263, 

 1910. As Gmelin's name (Syst. Nat., p. 912, 1789) is 

 absolutely equivalent and later than Boddaert's, the bird 

 must be known as 



Spizella canadensis (Boddaert). 



Trocblltjs rubricauda. 



In the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XVI. , p. 311, Clytokema 

 rubinea (Gm.) is used for the species figured on pi. 276, f. 4, 

 though Boddaert had given the above name to the same 

 figure fifteen years previously. Humming-birds have been 

 monographed since then and several specialists, notably 

 Hartert in Das Tier-reich, have dealt with them without 

 recognising this fault, and the erroneous name appears in 

 Brabourne and Chubb's List, p. 126. The correct name 

 should therefore be 



Clytol^ema rubricauda (Boddaert). 



Trochilus viridigula. 



This name given on p. 41 to pi. 671, f. 1, does not appear 

 to have been hitherto determined. Mr. Charles Chubb, of 

 the British Museum, has helped, by his splendid knowledge 

 of these birds, to satisfactorily identify it and there is no 

 doubt that the figure represents a specimen of the bird known 

 as Lampomis gramineus (Gmelin). Specimens in the British 



