Note on the name <I>Rhopocichla</I>

Vol.

XV

pp. 35-39

March

_5, 1902

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

GENERAL NOTES.

Note on

the

name

Rhopoclchla.

Rhopocichla

was

firstused

by

^{Gates in1889}

(Fauna

^Brit. India, Birds,

I, 159) for an Indian Timeline bird.

Two

years later Dr. Allen

em-

ployed ^the

same

term _(Bull.

Am.

Mus. Nat. Hist., Ill, 199, 1891) for a South

American Ant

Thrush.

As

theuseof the

same name

in

two

families of birds isliable toleadto

some

confusion itis proposed^{to re-} place Dr. Allen's Rhopocichla by Bhopornis (type Myiothera ^ardesiaca Wied).

—

Charles W. Richmond.

The

technical

names

of

two _Dogbanes from

the District of

Columbia.

In his recentlypublished

Manual

of theFloraoftheNorthernStates and Canada, ^Dr. N. L. Britton transfers the

name Apocynum ^medium

Greene to the

Dogbane

which, in

my

paper onthe species occurringⁱⁿ theDistrict of Columbia,*^I describedasA. _speciosum. FortheApocy-

num

medium, as there _defined, he proposes the

new name

A. milleri.

Beyond

^thebrief citation of

synonyms

^noreasonisgiven^{forthese alter-} ations; andaftera carefulexaminationofthefactsI

am

forcedtoregard thechange^asquiteunwarranted.

At

the time of

my

^revisionofthe species ProfessorGreene informed

me

that he

had

based the

name medium

on_{a plant}growingatawell-

known

locality in Brookland, ^D.C.

At

thisstationthereis found only one_speciesof

Apocynum,

living

and

freshspecimens^of

which

furnished the material for

my

description. Since the publication of Doctor

*Proc.Biol. Soc, Washington, ^XIII, pp. 79-90, September^{28, 1899.}

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