ON THE GENUS CITTURA*. 



By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



(Plates XCIX., C.) 



Mr. G. R. Gray, in his ' Hand-list,' 1869, pt. i. p. 89, says:—" 296. Cittura, 

 Reich. 1851." 



The genus Cittura, however, is not Reichenbach'sf, but Kaup'siJ:. 

 Kaup described the genus in his ' Naturliches System,' Darmstadt, 1848, 8vo, 

 Famihe der Eisvogel, p. 8. Reichenbach says (1851), in his ' Handbuch der 

 speciellen Ornithologie,' Alcedinece, p. 38 : — '' Cittura, Kaup." Therefore 

 " Cittura, Reich.," is a mistake. 



Gray took his date from Reichenbach, who cites Kaup without a year. 



Mr. Sharpe, in his ■• Alcedinidse,' p. xx, writes thus :— " Cittura, Kaup, 

 Farn. Eisv. p. 8 (1848). Type C. cyanotis." 



J. Kaup says, in " Die Familie der Eisvogel (^AlcedinidcB)," in ' Verhand- 

 lungen des naturhistorischen Vereins fiir das Grossherzogthum Hessen und 

 Umgebung,' 2. Heft, Darmstadt, 1848, p. 68, "Dacelo cyanotis, Temm., is the 

 type of my subgenus Cittura, with flattened Flycatcher-hke bill and Magpie- 

 like tail." 



* Th. KiTTa, a Jay, and ovpd, a tail— i. e. having a tail long and graduated, like that of a Jay. 



t Dr. H. G. L. Reichenbach was Director of the Dresden Museum. He is still living in Dresden, 

 and was born in 1793, at Leipzig. He is a zoologist as well as a botanist, and has written a great 

 number of works. 



J Dr. J. J. Kaup was Administrator of the Darmstadt Museum, and died some years ago. 

 He was born in 1803, at Darmstadt, and has written a long series of zoological and palfeontological 

 works ; they fill more than two pages (pp. 620, 621) in the ' Catalogue of Scientifi.c Papers ' pub- 

 lished by the Royal Society of London, vol. iii. (1869). 



