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CaN.UTTTS. 



This dates from 1804, with the same species as type of the 

 name when it was later used in 1831. Of course, the same 

 arguments against it can be produced, with the additional 

 facts that one. party does not recognise the generic distinction 

 of the group, and the other does not admit the necessity of 

 name changes which would require its acknowledgment. 

 However, to scientific systematists it is important to have 

 the name placed well in view. 



Oettia. 



Richmond gives as an earlier reference : " Cetti'a Bonaparte, 

 Iconogr. Faun. Italica, Vol. I., 1834 (fasc. 9), text to pi. [29]. 

 Type, Sylvia cetti Temminck (original designation)." We 

 have had the latter item before us for some time. Thus 

 both Hartert and the B.O.U. List cite the species name as 

 of Marmora, 1820, the latter explaining : " Though both this 

 name and that of Temminck (Sylvia sericea Man. d'Orn., I., 

 p. 197) were published in the same year, the first name is 

 slightly prior in date." The facts show exactly the reverse, 

 as at the end of Marmora's paper Bonelli added (p. 261) : 

 " Oe mois (Novembre, 1820) . . . An moment meme ou 

 Ton corrigeait les epreuves de ce me mo ire, il nous est parvenu 

 la 2 e edition du manuel d'Ornithologie de M. Temminck, 

 dans laquelle a la page 194, nous trouvons cette espece decrite 

 sous la nom de Bee fin Bouscarle, Sylvia cetti de la Marmora, 

 d'apres les individus envoyes de Turin." The date of 

 publication of Temminck's Manuel d'Ornithologie is given 

 in the Bibliographie de la France as " October 21, 1820 " : 

 the first two volumes received before that date. On p. 194 

 appears Sylvia cetti and this precedes Sylvia sericea by three 

 pages. Consequently the species name can be retained as 

 of Temminck. 



The genera of the Warblers were not well considered in 

 the preparation of the B.O.U. List, as in this case Gettia was 

 easily admitted, on account of its tail structure, while the 

 Reed and Sedge Warblers were lumped, though the differences 



