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Show 1884.] PROF. FLOWER ON THE GENERA OF DELPHINIDiE. 417 S. spilonota. S. emini. S. salvadorii, millim. millim. millim. Culmen 23 21 18 Wing 88 95 95 Tail 58 58 58 Tarsus 14| 14 16| Poll. c. ung 19 19 22 The iris is brown in all three species. I am much obliged to Capt. G. A. Shelley for the loan of a good specimen of S. spilonota, which it would have been impossible for me to procure from any continental collection known to me. The synonymy of the three species of Salpornis is as follows :- 1. S. SPILONOTA. Salpornis spilonota, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 121 ; G. R. Gray, P.Z.S. 1847, p. 7; id. Gen. of B. i. p. 144; Reichb. N. S. pi. xxxviii.; id. Handb. d. Sp. Orn. Scans, pi. 564 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 382 ; id. Supplem. Notes &c, Ibis, 1872, p. 20; Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. xx., fig. bon. ; Ball, Stray Feath. 1874, p. 397, 1876, p. 232, 1878, p. 209; Butler, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 462, 1876, p. 37, 1877, p. 228; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 338 ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 48 (first good descript.), 1866, pp. 228, 365; Blanf. Ibis, 1867, p. 461 ; Adam, Stray Feath. pt. 5 ; Allan and Hume, Journ. As. Soc. of Beng. 1869, pt. ii.; id. ibid. 1870, pt. ii. p. 113; id. Ibis, 1871, p. 446, 1872, p. 20; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. viii. p. 330. Hab. Widely distributed through the jungles of Central India: Chanda, Behar, Oude, Sironcha, Sambhur Lake, &c. 2. S. SALVADORII. Hylypsornis salvadori, Barb, du Boc. Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1878, pp. 198, 211 ; id.Ornith. d'Ang. p. 289, t. x. f. 2 (fig. bon.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 255 ; Salpornis salvadorii, Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. viii. p. 330. Hab. Benguela in S.W. Africa, "extending across through the Mashoona country into S.E. Africa." 3. S. EMINI. Hab. Langomeri, Eastern Equatorial Africa (Dr. Emin Bey). 4. Note on the Names of two Genera of Delphinidce. By WILLIAM H E N R Y FLOWER, LL.D., F.R.S., P.Z.S. [Eeceived June 10,1884.] In the Revision of the family Delphinida, published in the c Proceedings' of the Society for 1883, pp. 466-513, I have adopted two generic terms, which, as has since been pointed out to me, are not tenable, being already in use for other forms. I hope, there- |
