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bird [reproduced at p. xxxii], which was called later XJpupa varia 
by Boddaert, 1 Madagascar Hoopoe by Latham, 2 Upupa Capensis 
by Gmelin, 3 Huppe grise by Audebert and Vieillot, 4 Merops huppe 
by Levaillant, 5 Upupa madagascariensis by Shaw, 6 Coracias tivouch , 
and Coracia cristat a by Vieillot . . J 
Since 1823 the Huppe du Cap de Bonne Esperance ( Upupa 
capensis Gm.) was described afresh by a crowd of authors, who gave 
it different names, and assigned to it . . . very different places in 
their classifications. Thus Wagler 8 believed he ought to name it 
Pastor upupa , whilst Lesson 9 and Ch. L. Bonaparte 10 call it Fregilu- 
pus capensis; Reichenbach, 11 G. Hartlaub, 12 Schlegel, and Pollen, 13 
Fregilupus madagascariensis ; Auguste Vinson 14 substituted for this 
name that of Fregilupus borbonicus , which Sundevall, 15 in his turn, 
replaced by Lophopsarus varius; at last G. R. Gray 16 employed the 
designation of Fregilupus varia , which was adopted under the 
more correct form of Fregilupus varius by Murie, 17 by G. Hart¬ 
laub, 18 and by R. B. Sharpe. 19 
The Museum of Natural History of Paris now possesses four 
specimens of this species of Starling, whose synonyms are so 
varied, viz., two mounted specimens, of which one, from an 
unknown source [possibly the original of the one figured in the 
Planches Enlumin'ees , and may be the actual specimen sent by 
Philibert Commerson which was drawn by Sonnerat], has served 
as the type for the description and figure published in 1802 by 
Audebert and Vieillot, whilst another has been sent to the 
1 Table des Planches Enlumindez, 1783, p. 43. 
2 Gener. Synopsis, 1783, t. ii. part i. p. 690. 
*^Systerna Natures, 1788, t. i. p. 466, No. 4. 
4 Hist. nat. des Oiseaux dores, 1802, t. i. Suppl. Prom&ops, p. 12, et PI. iii. 
5 Hist. nat. des Promerops, 180 ; Promtrops, p. 43, et pi. 18. 
6 General Zoology, 1812, t. viii. part i. p. 140. 
7 Nouveau Dictionnaire dlhist. nat., 18175 t. viii. p. 3. 
8 Syst. Avium, 1827, Pastor, sp. 13. 
9 Traite d* Ornithologie, 1831, p. 324. 
10 Conspectus Avium, 1850, t. i. p. 88. 
n Handbuch Scansor., 1851, p. 321, pi. DXCVI. fig. 4039. 
12 Syst. Vebers der Vogel Madagascars, in Journ. f. Ornithologie, i860, p. 88. 
13 Recherches sur la Faunede Madagascar, 1868, p. 104. 
14 Bull, de la SocUte d?acclimatation, 1868, p. 200. 
15 Methodi naturalis Avium dispon.Tentamen, 1872, p. 40. 
16 Hand List Genera and Species of Birds, 1870, t. ii. p. 28. 
17 Proceed. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 474 ? pis. 61, 62. 
18 Die Vogel Madagascars, 1877, p. 203, No. 125. 
19 Nature, 1889, t. xl. p. 177, and Cat. Brit, Mus., 1890, t. xiii. p. 194. 
