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species named is not one of the original species men- 

 tioned by Lewin as members of his genus. 



In the Zool. Journ., Vol. I., 1825, Swainson introduced 

 Sericulus (p. 476) and Entomyzon (p. 480) for M. chryso- 

 cephalus Lewin, and Gracula cyanotis Latham, respec- 

 tively. The latter is the same bird as Meliphaga 

 cyanops Lewin. 



When Vigors and Horsfield published their classic 

 paper on Australian birds in the Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), 

 Vol. XV., they continued this incorrect usage. They 

 indicated five sections of the genus Meliphaga, and named 

 as type of the restricted genus " Meliphaga Lewin et 

 Auct.," " Mel. Novae Hollandiae, the Cerihia novae 

 liollandiae of Latham." In their second section is in- 

 cluded Meliphaga chrysotis Lewin, while Meliphaga 

 phrygia Lewin is placed in their new genus Anthochcera ; 

 Meliphaga, chrysocephala Lewin is recognised as generically 

 separable under Swainson's name Sericulus ; and Gracula 

 cyanotis Latham is classed under their new genus Tropi- 

 dorhynchus ; Swainson's Entomyzon apparently being 

 overlooked or ignored. 



It is thus seen that the only member of Lewin's genus 

 Meliphaga admitted as belonging to that genus as early 

 as 1826 was Meliphaga chrysotis Lewin, though a wrong 

 type was determined for Lewin's genus. 



This usage was continued until Swainson published 

 his Classification of Birds in 1837, when in Vol. II., 

 p. 326, he included the genus Meliphaga Lewin, and 

 differentiated sections thus : — 



Meliphaga. M. barbata* Ois. dor, pi. 57. Austral- 



asiana, ib.. pi. 55. 

 Ptilotis Sw., P. lewinii Lew., Bds., pi. 5. leucotis 



Lew., Bds., pi. 20. 

 Zanthomiza Sw., Z. phrygia Shaw, Zool. of N.H., 



pi. 4. 



* The Certhia novos-hollandice of the old authors, and of which 

 the modern Meliphaga sericea, I am led to believe, is but a sexual 

 difference. 



