376 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
now gives us what may be regarded as a continuation of his 
former 'List/ drawn up in exactly the same way. It 
contains some 200 generic names introduced as new during 
the years from 1901 to 1905 inclusive, together with about 350 
others of earlier date, the majority of which were not 
recorded by Waterhouse. 
For this new ( List,’ as for the former, ornithologists owe 
Mr. Richmond their most sincere thanks. It will save them 
many weary hours of severe labour by indicating exactly 
when and where any particular generic name has been 
first proposed. So far as we have been able to judge, it 
has been prepared with great care, and merits our warmest 
commendation. As in Mr. Richmond’s former 1 List/ 
each name is accompanied by an explanation of its origin. 
Of course, authors of new names do not always tell 
us from what they are derived, so in such cases the deriva¬ 
tions have to be guessed, but this is not usually a difficult 
matter. This part of the work, we are informed, is largely 
due to Mr. H. C. Qberholser, and was finally submitted to 
Dr. Theodore Gill for revision. 
While, however, we fully recognise the merits of Mr. Rich¬ 
mond’s work, we do not at all approve of the use that is likely 
to be made of it. Mr. Richmond and his friends, of what we 
may call the “ ultra-prioritarian ” school, have discovered 
some hitherto little-known works and memoirs, which, if 
recognised, would cause changes in some of our oldest and 
most familiar generic names. For example, it appears that 
Bechstein first proposed the name “ Accentor 33 for the 
Dippers, but afterwards transferred it to the Hedge-Sparrows 
and used “ Cinclus 33 for the Dippers. Mr. Richmond’s 
view is that “ Accentor 33 is, therefore, a mere synonym of 
Cinclus 33 and should not be used at all! The Hedge- 
Sparrows are to be called “ Laiscopus 33 —the next earliest 
generic name given to them. It is difficult to realize the 
confusion that would arise from such a change in the name 
of one of our commonest and best-known birds. But this is 
merely a sample of many similar proposals to change well- 
established names for others that are practically new. We 
