CHIFFCHAFF. 435 



PHYLLOSCOPUS RUFUS *. 

 CHIFFCHAFF. 



(Plate 10.) 



Sylvia liippolais {Linn.), aptul Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. i. p. 87 (1787). 



Motacilla rufa et lotharingica, Linn. fide Bechst. Naturg. DeutscM. iv. p. G82 (179."i). 



Sylvia rufa, Bechst. Orn. I'ascheub. i. p. 188 (1802) ; et auctorum plurimonim — 

 ^Volf, Temminck, Buie, Kallmann, {Bonaparte), {Schlegel), {Degland 8; Oerbe), 

 {Keyserling 8f Blasiiis), Oraij, {Saunders), {Fritsch), Hewitson, {Salvadori), 

 {Gould), {LIeuglin),{Lindermai/er), {Blyth), {Tristram), Cabanis), {Loche), (Do- 

 derleiii), {Hoicard Saunder.i-), {Shelley), (Gochnan), {Bennie), {Eyton), {Giebel), 

 Sfc, ^c. 



MotaeiUa hippolais, Li?m. apud Ttirton, Linn. Syst. Xat. 1. p. 587 (1806). 



Ficedula rufa {Bechst.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 100 (1816). 



Sylvia colly bita, Vieill. N. Did.. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 23o (1817). 



Trochilua minor, Forst. Syn. Cat. p. .54 (1817j. 



Sylvia abietina, i\7/ss. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1819, p. 115. 



Regulus hippolaia (Linn.), apud Fleminy, Brit. An. p. 72 (182H). 



Phylloscopus x\xivA{Beclist.), Kaup, Xatiirl. Syst. p. 94 (182il). 



Phyllopneuste sylvestris, Bre/im, Vog. Deutschl. p. 431 (1831). 



Phyllopneuste solitaria, Brehm, Vog. Deut-sehl. p. 432 (1831). 



Phyllopneuste pinetorura, Brehm, J'liy. Deutschl. p. 432 (1831). 



Phyllopneuste vafet, {Bechst.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 433 (1831). 



Trochilus rufa {Bechst.}, Bennie, Field Nat. i. p. -52 (1833). 



Sylvia loquax, Herbert, White's N. H. of Selb. p. 5-5, note (1833). 



Sylvicola rufa {BechM.), Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 14 (1830). 



Sylvia brevlrostris, Strickl. Proc. Zovl. Soc 1836, p. 98. 



Phyllopneuste hippolais {Linn), apud Macgill. Br.B. ii. p. 379 (1839). 



Phyllopneuste brevirostris {StrickL),Bonap. Consp. i. p. 289 (1850). 



Phylloscopus habessiuicus, Blanf. Ann. Nat. Hist. 18G9, p. 329. 



* The attempt to ignore the well-known name which Bechstein gave to the Chiffchaff 

 more than eighty years ago, and which has been in almost universal use ever since, and 

 to substitute for it an obscure name absolutely unknown, except to the ornithological 

 bookworms, is an example of red tape and pedantry which is almost inconceivable. The 

 reason alleged for this mischievous change is that, according to the Stricklandian code, the 

 name of Phylloscopus rufus cannot be applied to the Chiifchaif because Boddaert had fore- 

 stalled Bechstein by calling the Whitethroat Motacilla rufa. To this may be replied : — 1st, 

 Boddaert did not intend to apply this name to the Whitethroat ; 2ud, if he did by accident 

 80 apply it, the Chitfchaff not belonging to the same genus as the Whitethroat (though 

 Boddaert may have thought it did), its right to bear the name cannot 'be affected under 

 the rules by any name previously applied to any bird belonging to a diiferent genus ; 3rd, 

 if the rules can be so twisted as to warrant the change, then they are more honoured in 

 the breach than in the observance. 



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