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As noted by Gray, the genus-name was spelt Dessonomis, 

 but Smith himself corrected this as a typographical error, 

 and this correction must be accepted. 



Falco piscator. 



This name given to pi. 478 does not appear to have hitherto 

 been recognised. According to our determination it is a good 

 figure of the bird called in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XIX., 

 p. 450, Schizorhis africana. The generic location may seem 

 strange but not as peculiar as that of Latham, who called it 

 Phasianus africanus (Index Orn., p. 631, 1790). We have 

 brought this correction to the notice of Mr. Claude Grant, 

 who had just worked at this species, and he has accepted our 

 identification and Avill record this emendation in the Ibis. 

 The correct spelling of the genus-name is now being used 

 so that the name reads 



Chizjerhis piscator (Boddaert). 



MOTACILLA SUPERCTLIOSA. 



This name appears on p. 43 and is used in the Catalogue of 

 Birds, Vol. X., p. 301, but on account of its omission from 

 Sherborn's Index Animalium, a bird on the British List is 

 specifically named superciliosus, though the basis of this 

 name is Motacilla superciliosa Gmelin 1789. 



In Hartert's Vogel Palaark. Fauna, Vol. I., p. 518, 1909, the 

 subspecies Phylloscopus superciliosa superciliosa ex Gmelin 

 1788 (recte 1789) appears, on p. 519. P. s. liumei (Brooks 

 1878), and p. 520, P. s. mandellii (Brooks 1880) are included. 

 No available synonyms are recorded. On p. xl. of the 

 " Inhalt," where Hartert (in a manner worthy of recom- 

 mendation) noted the alterations and emendations proposed 

 during the progress of his work, no further notes on this 

 species occur. Thus, in the Hand-List of British Birds, by 

 Hartert, Jourdain, Ticehurst and Witherby, 1912, p. 60, 

 Phylloscopus superciliosus still appears, and in the more 

 recent B.O.U. List, 2nd Edition, published this year (1915) 

 it is maintained, p. 84, 



