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word " ^strelata," as a majority of my re- 

 spected colleagues on the Committee insist 

 upon doing, for no better reason than that 

 Prince Charles Luoien Bonaparte did not 

 know how (Estrelata ought to be spelled. 

 Such deference to authority as this is in 

 my judgment a blot on our " Canons of 

 Nomenclature," which justly exposes us to 

 rebuke from "mouths of wisest censure." 

 Many persons who do not know how to spell 

 very well become successful authors through 



the friendly attentions of their compositors 

 and proof-readers ; and why should our Com- 

 mittee not be grateful for such assistance 

 in the pangs and throes of orthographic 

 delivery ? 



No. 865, p. 812. Synthliborhamphus wumizu- 

 sume is considered by the Committee not 

 North American, and consequently elimina- 

 ated. (On this question, still open, see 

 Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, p. 

 524.) 



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