Gill, Pedioecetes and Pooccetes. 
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approximated by a medieval Greek name used by Maximus 
Planudes in his ‘Anthology’ — Pedocoetes — the only difference 
being that the first component of Pedocoetes was 7 re'Sov, the ground, 
while that of Pediocoetcs was ttcSlov, a plain. 
These examples amply justified Baird in the coining of the 
names in question, and the only mistake he made was in the 
substitution of a for 0. 
III. 
It will be thus seen that Pediocaetes and Poocaetes, by a very 
slight alteration, might have been corrected into Pediocoetes and 
Poocoetes. As it is. through misunderstanding, names of entirely 
different etymology were suggested in place of them, and those 
very different names must be accepted. They must be accepted 
for the following reasons : — 
1. The substitute names Pooecetes and Pedioecetes were delib- 
erate corrections of Poocaetes and Pediocaetes. 
2. They were published not only simultaneously with the 
incorrect names, but “ stand first in the book.” 
3. They were adopted in the quarto edition of the “ Catalogue 
■of North American Birds” (Oct. 1858) and the octavo edition 
( I ^59) • 
4. They were in part at least accepted before the incorrectly 
formed names, Pooecetes having been adopted by Sclater in 1859 
<P. Z. S., 379) and Pedioecetes 1 by Hayden in 1861 (Trans. Am. 
Phil. Soc., N. S. XII, 172). 
5. They were generally adopted at first and only replaced later 
.by the incorrect names. 
IV. 
The data respecting the species in question given in the A. O. U. 
■code and Check-List of N. A. Birds should be replaced by the 
following : — 
1 Suckley also in 1861, retained the text name Pediocaetes. 
