362 APPENDIX. 



Genus AMPELIS. In the A. 0. U. Check- List Bomhycilla 

 is used for the Waxwings, owing to what appears to the 

 Committee to be a wrong determination of the type of 

 the Linnean genus. 



The original genus Ampelis contains ^^ garnihis" and 

 a number of South American birds now considered to 

 belong to quite distinct families. Gray (List Gen. Bds. 

 1st ed. 1840, p. 34) undoubtedly designated Ampelis co- 

 tinga as the type, though in the following year, in the 

 next edition (p.4G), he altered this to Ampelis garrulus. 



An examination of the descriptions and synonyms 

 of the species included in Linnseus' original genus shows 

 that there is only one ^^ Ampelis" referred to, and this is 

 the Ampelis ot the 'Fauna Suecica,' which appears in the 

 Syst. Nat. as Ampelis garrulus. AVe may therefore con- 

 clude that Linnaeus undoubtedly intended the Waxwing 

 to be the type of his genus, which may be considered 

 fixed by Linnean tautonymy. 



Genus SYLVIA. This genus, proposed by Scopoli (Ann. i. 

 Hist. Nat. 1769, p. 154), has no type designated by the 

 author. 



Of later writers, Swainson in 11^36 designated Sylvia 

 Idppolais (the Icterine Warbler), Gray in 1840 Sylvia 

 melanocephala (the Sardinian Warbler), and Seebohm in 

 1881 Sylvia cinerea (the Whitethroat) as the types. 



As these three species are not to be found among 

 those included by Scopoli in his original list of species, 

 it is obvious that another type must be found. 



Motacilla sylcia Linnaeus, 176G ( = Sylvia communis 

 Lath.), which might be regarded as the type by 

 tautonymy, cannot be taken into consideration ; it. 

 is not included in Scopoli's original list of the members 

 of the genus, and the identification of Motacilla sylvia 

 with Sylvia communis is very doubtful. 



The Committee suggest that Sylvia currxica (Linn.) 

 should henceforth be regarded as the type of this- 



