A new name for Tanagra sclateri Berlepsch

Vol.

XXV,

pp. 185-188 December24, 1912

PROCEEDINGS

OFTHE

BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

GENERAL NOTES.

A

NEW NAME ^FOR TANAGRA SCLATERI BERLEPSCH.

Dr. ('.

W. Richmond

(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 35, No. _1656, Dec. _16, L908, 644) lias

shown

that Tanagra ^Linnaeus can not ho used for the birds that have _usuallybeen _placed in this genus, but that Thraupis Boie willhave tobe used.

He

lixesthe type ^of

Tanagra upon

Fringilla riolacea Linn., therefore Tanagra ^sclaterl Berlepsch^(Ibis, 1880, 112) be- comes untenable on accountof

Tanagra

^{sclaterl (}

Euphonia

^sclaterlSun-

devall, Oefv. Vet. Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 596),

and

the bird described by von Berlepsch under the above

name may

^{be called} Thraupis epis=

copus

nesophilus.

—

/.

H.

_Riley.

THE NAMES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOATS.

The

specific

name

_{montanus, applied} to the

Rocky Mountain Goat

(Ovis montanus Ord, 1815), ^is preoccupied by ^Oris

montana

_Schreber, DieSaugthiere, plate294 D, published, according^to Sherborn(P. Z. S., 1891, p. 587), in 1804;

and

_by Ovis

montana

_{Tiedemann, Zoologie, I, p.}

404, 1808,both

synonyms

^of Ovis canadensis

Shaw and

Ovis cervinaDes- marest, ^1804.

The

earliest available

name

for the

Mountain Goat

is

R

_uplcapraamericana Blainville, 1816.

Though

^{described from}

"North

America," ^it

may

properlybe restrictedtothefirstrecognized form, long

known

as Oreamnos montanus, inhabiting the Cascade Mountains, and the nearby ranges. Blainville, in his preliminary arrangement ^{of the} ungulates, divided ^his comprehensive genus Cerophorus ^into

what

he called sub-genera,^ofwhich Rupicapra, ^{with threespecies,}including

"A.

americana"*

is one; but in his diagnoses ^of

new

_specieswhich follows he firstcharacterized the goatunder the combination Rupicapra ^ameri- cana.

The name

_applied tooneof the two_suhspeciesof Oreamnos montanus described by ^{Dr. J. A. Allen} in 1004, 0. m. columbianus (Bull.

Amer.

Mus. ^Nat. Hist.,

XX,

p. 20), ^ispreoccupiedby ^the

Capra

^columbianaof Desmoulins,1823, a

synonym

^{of Ovismontanus Ord.}

On my

callingDr.

*Not Antilope americana Ord,^{as stated} byPalmer, Index Gen.Mamm.,p.613; but

a tinmen nudum, reallyreferring to theanimalhe laterdiagnosed underthe name Rupicapra americana,^theRocky Mountain^Goat.

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