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As there can be no donbt that Brehm's three species, 

 iV. planiceps, JY. pinetonim, and N. abietum, are all 

 synonyms of Stiix tengmalmi, the Committee have 

 decided to retain Nyctala as a " nomen conservandum." 



Nyctala fnnerea. As mentioned above, Lonnberg (Ibis, 1913, 

 p. 398) has convincingly shown that Linnseus' name 

 Strix funerea, 1758, refers to Tengmalm's Owl and 

 antedates Strix tengmalmi Gmelin, 1788. 



G-enus OTTJS. Type by monotypy : 0. hakkamcenaV arm&ni. 

 This generic name, proposed in 1769, antedates Scops 

 Savigny (Syst. Ois. de I'Egypte, 1810, p. 47), used in 

 the former edition of the List. 



Otns scops. The name of the Scops Owl is changed, as the 

 authors of the 1st edition of the List avoided the use 

 of the same generic and specific name. 



Genus BUBO. Type by tautonymy : S. hubo (Linn.). 



Bubo bubo. For the reasons of the change of this name 

 see Otus scops. 



Genus CARINE. Type by monotypy : C. noctua. Athene 

 Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 549, an older name used in the 

 former edition of the List is rejected, as it is preoccupied 

 by Athena Hiibner used for a genus of moths. 



Genus GYPS. Type by original designation : G. fulvus 

 (Gmel.). 



Genus NEOPHEON. Type by monotypy : N, j)ercnoptenis 

 (Linn.). 



Neophron percnopterus. The specific name of the Egyptian 

 Vulture was spelt perenopterus, not percnopterus, by 

 Linnseus. This is obviously a misprint, as he quotes 

 from Aldrovandus and Ray, both of whom spelled the 

 word percnopterus. 



