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" sub-generic" name between parentheses, as White 

 (Ptarmigan) Grous, (Teirao (Lagopus) mutus.J 

 The clumsiness of this mode of designation will be 

 avoided, and the purpose of the projectors fully 

 answered by the adoption of another mode, which 

 was communicated to me by one of our first orni- 

 thologists — Selby. That writer proposes to insti- 

 tute a new division, between the Section (" Sub- 

 Family" of some authors,) and the Genus, to be 

 named " Domus." For example, the Rose Mufflin 

 (Longtailed Tit of old authors) is in a different 

 genus from the Tits (Parus } ) but in the same 

 Domus. 



However, let the propounder speak for himself: — 

 * * * " The sub-genera of these naturalists are 

 what I should call genera, as I think the term ought 

 to be applied to the lowest groups of species. In 

 this case we want another term for the higher groups 

 they [the sub-generic naturalists] call genera. Per- 

 haps Domus might be substituted and the termination 

 ites." This valuable suggestion will entirely super- 

 sede the necessity of the third name so clumsily 

 introduced by the " sub-generic" naturalists, and 

 likewise the as clumsy mode employed by some 

 writers, of expressing the subordinate division by 

 signs : as Rusty * Bunting, (Emberiza * mustelina \) 

 Yellow f Bunting, ( Emberiza f citrinelkt, :) the 

 intermediate mark being intended to denote the 

 division to which the species belongs ! This method 

 has been humourously exposed by that acute writer 



