. A dictionary of birds . andin so doing fixed upon Strix stridula—the aforesaid Ta^^Tiy Owl—asits type, while under the name of Asio he established a secondgenus, of which his contemporarys S. otus, presently to be men-tioned, is the type. Some years later Savigny, who had verypeculiar notions on nomenclature, disregarding the act of Brisson,chose to recognize the Linnsean ^S*. flammea—the Screech-Owl beforespoken of—as the type of the genus Strix, which genus he furtherdissevered, and his example was largely followed until Fleming gaveto the Screech-Owl the generic name of Aluco,^ by which i
. A dictionary of birds . andin so doing fixed upon Strix stridula—the aforesaid Ta^^Tiy Owl—asits type, while under the name of Asio he established a secondgenus, of which his contemporarys S. otus, presently to be men-tioned, is the type. Some years later Savigny, who had verypeculiar notions on nomenclature, disregarding the act of Brisson,chose to recognize the Linnsean ^S*. flammea—the Screech-Owl beforespoken of—as the type of the genus Strix, which genus he furtherdissevered, and his example was largely followed until Fleming gaveto the Screech-Owl the generic name of Aluco,^ by which it had beenknown for more than three hundred years, and reserved Strix forthe Tawny Owl. He thus anticipated Nitzsch, whose editor (Bur- 1 Mr. Beddard has noticed a few points {Ibis, 1890, pp. 293-294).^ It was dealt with at greater length in The Ibis for 1876 (pp. 94-105).^ The word seems to have been the invention of Gaza, the translator of Aris-totle, in 1503, and is the Latinized form of the Italian Allocco. 43. 674 OWL meister) was probably unacquainted with this fact when he allowedthe name Hyhris to be conferred on the Screech-Owl. No doubtinconvenience is caused by changing any general practice; but, aswill have been seen, the practice was notuniversal, and such inconvenience as mayarise is not chargeable on those Avho abide bythe laAV, as it is intended in this article to reader is therefore warned that the wordStrix will be here used in what is believed tobe the legitimate way, for the genus contain-„ , ing the Strix stridula of Linnseus, while Aluco Bill of Aluco flammeus. •=> . (After Swainson.) ^^ retained for that including the ;S. flammea of the same naturalist. Except the two main divisions just mentioned—Striginse andAlimnm—any further arrangement of the Owls must at present bedeemed tentative, for the ordinary external characters, to whichmost systematists trust, are useless if not misleading.^ Severalsystematizers have tried to draw c
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