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The name Cuculus gigas is given on p. 50 to pi. 815, " Le 

 Coucou verdatre de Madagascar," while the plates cited in the 

 Catalogue of Birds are referable to quite another bird, the 

 Leptosomus discolor (Hermann 1772). 



Oriolus violaceus. 

 This name is given on p. 39 to pi. 646. Gray (Genera 

 Birds, Vol. III., App., p. 34, 1849) recognised this plate as 

 Quiscalus purpureus var. This synonym does not appear in 

 the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XL, p. 394, under Quiscalus 

 versicolor, though an albino is catalogued. When this partial 

 albino is compared with the plate, Gray's identification is 

 an absolute certainty, and Boddaert's name passes into the 

 synonymy of Quiscalus quiscula (Linne), as that name is used 

 in the Amer. Ornith. Union's Check List, 3rd Ed., 1910, 

 p. 239. As exactly equivalent to Boddaert's name may be 

 recorded Oriolus ludovicianus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 387, 1788, 

 and Oriolus leucocephalus Latham, Index Ornith., p. 175, 1790. 



Frjngilla ardens. 



This name given on p. 39 to pi. 647 we have not traced 

 in the Catalogue of Birds, nor have we yet identified the 

 bird. 



Picus RUFUS. 



Boddaert provided this name on p. 43 for pi. 694, f. 1, 

 but in the Catalogue of Birds the name was credited to Gmelin, 

 Boddaert's usage being overlooked. It is now acknowledged 

 that this is the species named by Linne Picus undatus, so that 

 the only note necessary is the admission of Picus rufus 

 Boddaert to the synonymy of Celeus undatus (Linne). 



MOTACILLA NIGRA. 



This Boddaertian name (p. 24) is not included in the 

 Catalogue of Birds, Vol. X., p. 411, as a synonym of Setophaga 

 ruticilla (Linne), though the figure, pi. 391, f. 2, to which it 

 was given is there recorded. 



