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Mr. Strickland's Commentary 



named by Bechstein before 1796, when Montagu (not Latham) 

 named it Sylvia sylvicola. (See Lin. Trans, vol. iv.) It will therefore 

 stand as Phyllopneuste sibilatrix (Bechst.), as Bonaparte has it. 



The name Curruca, " Briss.," was first used generically by Bech- 

 stein. 



The name Luscinia, " Briss.," seems to have been first used gene- 

 rically by Bonaparte in 1838, and should therefore give way to Phi- 

 lomela, Selby, 1833, unless Daulias, Boie, be prior to the latter 

 name. 



The type intended by Mr. Gray to illustrate his genus is the En- 

 glish Nightingale, Philomela luscinia, Selby (Luscinia philomela, 

 Bon.), and not the Greater Nightingale, Philomela major (Briss.), 

 mihi. 



The Turdus mindanensis, Gm., can hardly be the same as Copsy- 

 chus saularis, for Latham (Syn. v. iii. p. 69) describes the breast of 

 T. mindanensis as white, and says nothing of white on the tail. 



If the true Copsychus saularis (Lin.) of India, with four lateral 

 pairs^of rectrices white, (Gryllivora intermedia, Sw.) should prove 

 really distinct from the Java bird with three lateral pair of rectrices 

 white, (G. brevirostris, Sw.) then the synonyms Turdus amcenus, 

 Horsf., and Lanius musicus, RafF., must be transferred to the latter 

 species, which will then stand as Copsychus amtenus (Horsf.). 



Ruticilla, " Ray," was first used generically by Bonaparte in 

 1838, and should therefore yield to Phoznicura, Sw., 1831. 



Cyanecula may stand ; but it is Brehm's genus, not Brisson's. 



The name Calliope was given to a genus of Mammalia by Mr. 

 Ogilby, in December 1836. I am not aware, however, whether this 

 was prior to Mr. Gould's adoption of the name in Ornithology. If 

 Calliope, Gould, be retained, the bird should be called C. cam- 

 tschatkensis (Gm.). 



P. 22. The earliest generic name for the Redbreast is Erythacus, 

 Cuv., 1802. The name Rubecula was first used as such by Mr. Blyth, 

 at a very recent date. 



I should prefer placing Aedon, Boie (not JEdon) among the Syl- 

 viance rather than the Vitifiorince. The habits of A. galactotes, which 

 I have seen alive in the Morea, are strictly arboreal, and it has a 

 very musical song. 



The name Vitiflora, though only introduced as a genus by Bona- 

 parte in 1838, may be retained, as Vieillot's name (Enanthe was pre- 

 occupied in Botany by Linnaeus. 



The name Rubetra, now first introduced as a genus by Mr. Gray, 

 ought not to supersede the old genus Saxicola, Bechst., as restricted 

 by Bonaparte. 



It is hardly necessary to change the name Seiurus, Sw. (N.B. It 

 should be written Siurus.) This word seems to be quite sufficiently 

 distinct in sound from Seisura, Vig. (which ought to be spelled 

 Sisura), not to be confounded with it. 



Should not Trichas be placed among the Sylvicolince ? 



P. 23. Iora scapularis ought to bear the name of /. iiphia (Lin.). 



