of a Type to Linncean Genera . 
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56 Linnsean genera may be, without fear of error, determined. 
They are as follows :— 
Genus. 
Type. 
Genus. 
Type. 
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' 4 ~ Strix (of which 
more presently). 
Cancroma: 
0. cochlearia. 
- Lanius: 
L. excubitor. 
Ardea: 
A. cinerea. 
Buphaga: 
B. africana. 
Tantalus: 
T. loculator. 
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Crotophaga: 
C. ani. 
Recurvirostra 
: R, avocetta. 
Corvus: 
C. corax. 
Haematopus: 
H. ostralegus. 
«- 
Oriolus: 
0. galbula. 
Fulica: 
F. atra. 
Paradisea: 
P. apoda. 
--Parra: 
P. jacana. 
Bucco: 
B. capensis. 
Rallus: 
R. aquaticus. 
Cuculus: 
0. canorus. 
Psophia: 
P. crepitans. 
Jynx: 
J. torquilla. 
Otis: 
0. tarda. 
,,^-Picus: 
P. martius. 
Struthio: 
S. camelus. 
Sitta: 
S. europaea. 
Didus : 
D. ineptus. 
Alcedo: 
A. ispida. 
Pavo: 
P. cristatus. 
Merops : 
M. apiaster. 
Meleagris: 
M. gallopavo. 
Upupa: 
U. epops. 
Crax: 
0. alector. 
Certhia: 
C. familiaris. 
Phasianus: 
P. colchicus. 
Trochilus : 
T. colubris. 
Numida: 
N. meleagris. 
^-^'''A.lca: 
A. torda. 
Alauda: 
A. arvensis. 
Procellaria: 
P. pelagica. 
Sturnus: 
S. vulgaris. 
Diomedea: 
D. exulans. 
T urdus: 
T. viscivorus. 
Pelecanus: 
P. onocrotalus. 
Ampelis: 
A. garrulus. 
Plotus: 
P. anhinga. 
Loxia: 
L. curvirostra. 
Phaeton: 
P. aethereus. 
Tanagra: 
Fringilla: 
T. tatao. . 
Rhynchops: 
R. nigra. 
F. coelebs. 
Sterna: 
S. hirundo. 
Muscicapa: 
M. grisola. 
f Phoenicopterus 
: P. ruber. 
Pipra: 
P. leucocilla. 
Platalea: 
P. leucorodia. 
Hirundo: 
H. rustica. 
Mycteria: 
M. americana. 
Caprimulgus: 
: C. europasus. 
The result does not seem to me so very 
subversive of cur 
rently accepted nomenclature. Out of the 56 genera in the 
foregoing list, (excepting Stria ?, which I must treat in detail,) 
only about three or four would appear to have, from my way 
of regarding them, a type other than that commonly assigned 
to them. Indeed I can fancy some of my readers exclaim¬ 
ing, Why should all this fuss be made about a matter on which 
ornithologists are generally agreed ? My answer to this is, 
that ornithologists have almost always acted upon the prin¬ 
ciple I enjoin, and this is a strong point in its favour. The 
few cases in which the principle has been departed from 
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