SOME NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE NAMES OF 

 PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



By EiCHABD C. McGeegob. 



{From tJie Zoological Section, Biological Lahoratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



Aluco longimembris (Jerdon). 



Strix Candida (not of Latham) Tickell, Jovir. As. Soc. Bengal (1833), 2, 572. 

 StrisB longimewibris Jerdon, Madras Journ. (1839), 10, 86. 



Dr. Charles W. Eichmond writes me that the name usually applied 

 to the grass owl is preoccupied by Strix Candida Latham, Suppl. Ind. 

 Orn. (1801), p. xiv which is a synonym for the snowy owl. The next 

 available name is the one used by Jerdon. 



The generic name Strix Linnaeus is replaced by Aluco Flemng. Of. 

 Auk (1908), 25, 370. 



Megalurus tweeddalei new name. \ 



Megalurus ruficeps (not of Sykes) Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (1877), 20, 94; Proc. Zbiil. Soo. (1877), 695, pi. 72. 



The name Megalurus ? ruficeps is used by- Sykes for an Indian species 

 in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1832), 91. As this invalidates the use of this" 

 name for the Philippine species, the latter, figured and described by 

 Lord Tweeddale, may be known as Megalurus tweeddalei. 



Zosterops boholensis new name. 



Zosterops Iwta (not of De Vis) McGeegok, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, Sec. 

 A, 329. 



The name under which the silver-eye of Bohol was described had been 

 used before for a species from New Guinea, see Zosterops Iceta De Vis, 

 Ibis (1897), 385. The Bohol species may therefore be named for the 

 island which it inhabits. 



Cinnyris henkei Meyer. 



Cinnyris henkei Meyer, Zeitschr. fiir Ges. Orn. (1884), 207, pi. 7. 

 Cinnyris xoUteheadi Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 2, 1; Ibis (1894), 

 514, pi. 14, fig. 1. 



The black-backed sun-bird, described and figured by Grant as Cinnyris 

 whitelieadi, finds an earlier name in Cinnyris henkei as indicated by 

 Dubois, Syn. Av. (1902), 699. 



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