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has no reference, is, in the opinion of the Committee, 

 indeterminable and should be rejected. 



Genus PALCO. Type bj- subsequent designation of the 

 A. 0. U. Check-List Committee (A. 0. U. Check-List, 

 2nd ed. 1886, p. 193) : F. suhhuteo Linn. 



Falco sesalon. Hartert, in the Hand-list of British Birds, 

 rejects this name as being a " nomen nudum " and uses 

 in its pliice Falco regulus Pall., 1773. If Tunstall's 

 work, however, be examined, it will be seen that he 

 refers to " rEmerillon " of Brisson, which is undoubtedly 

 our Merlin, and this reference appears quite sufficient to 

 fix Tunstall's name. 



Falco naumanni. This i-s undoubtedly the oldest name and 

 was used by Sharpe in 1874, but rejected in the 1st 

 edition of the List and by Saunders. The work, an 

 Almanack of Forestry, in which the description appeared 

 is an obscure one, but there is a copy in the British 

 Museum Library. 



Genus PANDION. Type by monotypy : P. haliaetus (Linn.). 



Genus PHALACROCORAX. Type by tautonymy : Phalaero- 

 corax phalacrocorax Briss.=P. carbo (Linn.). 



Genus SIILA. Type by tautonymy: \_Sula] sifZa Briss.= 

 S. leucogastra (Bodd.). In the A. 0. U. Cheek-List 

 (3rd ed. 1910, p. 60) Sula piscator (Linn.), the Red- 

 faced and Red-legged Booby, is given as the equivalent 

 of Sula sula Brisson. But a reference to Brisson's 

 description will show that Brisson's Sula sula is the 

 Brown Booby, the earliest binomial name for which is- 

 Sula leucogastra (Bodd.). Pelecanus sula Linn., 1766, 

 cannot be identified with the Bro\Yn Booby or with 

 \_Sula'\ sula Brisson. 



Genus ANSER. Type by tautonymy : Anser anser (Linn.). 

 Anser anser. For the change in this name see .Bzdeo buteo^ 

 p. 379. 



