. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Vol. 80 120 1960 1949. There was a most marked white bar the length of each wing, which as far as I could see was caused by the tips of the major wing coverts— not by white quills of the secondaries. The bar (which might have been. as much as half an inch thick) ran the length of the secondaries and curved round the primary coverts before fading out, as can be seen from a copy of my original sketch. The Oldest Name for the Roseate Pipit by Mr. H. G. Deignan Received 14th March, I960 In Peters's Check List of Birds of the World, vol. 9, 1960, p. 1
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Vol. 80 120 1960 1949. There was a most marked white bar the length of each wing, which as far as I could see was caused by the tips of the major wing coverts— not by white quills of the secondaries. The bar (which might have been. as much as half an inch thick) ran the length of the secondaries and curved round the primary coverts before fading out, as can be seen from a copy of my original sketch. The Oldest Name for the Roseate Pipit by Mr. H. G. Deignan Received 14th March, I960 In Peters's Check List of Birds of the World, vol. 9, 1960, p. 160, footnote 1 (attached to Anthus roseatus Blyth, 1847), we find stated: "The namepelopus Hodgson, 1844 (in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 83—Nepal), has been revived. It is, however, a nomen nudum". The author here probably refers to Anthus pelopus "Hodgson", cited from Gray's Zoological Miscellany by Delacour (Oiseau et Rev. Franc. d'Orn., vol. 21, 1951, p. 115). The availability of pelopus as oldest valid name for the Roseate Pipit was brought to this writer's attention by the late Sir Norman Kinnear, whose death in 1957 interrupted and prevented publication of the results of his investigations on Hodgson. The correct citation should have been given by Delacour thus: Anthus pelopus J. E. Gray, Catalogue of the Specimens and Drawings of Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet, presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. to the British Museum, 1846, p. 154— Nepal. Since pelopus J. E. Gray, 1846, has one year's anteriority over roseatus Blyth, 1847, it continues to be the correct name for the species listed as Anthus roseatus Blyth in Peters's Check List, vol. 9, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Taylor, Nancy M. Oxford : Clarendon Press
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