General Notes. 37
The generic name Coccystes untenable.
The Old World genus of cuckoos hitherto known as Coccystes Gloger
(Handb. Naturg. Vog. Europ., 1834, p. 449) mvist in the future stand as
Clamator Kaup, 1829 (Entwicklungs-Geschichte der Europaischen
Thierwelt, p. 53), which antedates Gloger's name by five years. That
Kaup's name is unimpeachable is clear from the following quotation of
his remarks: "Cuculus glandarius .... scheint . . . gar nicht in die
Gattung Kuckuk zu gehoren, sondern eine eigene zu bilden, welche ich
Strauszkuckuk Clamator nenne, und die durch die starken Fuszwurzeln
und die Bildung der Nasenlocher etc. sich characterisirt." The nine
recognized species of this genus are then:
1. Clamator glandarius (Linnfeus).
2. Clamator coromandns (Linnaeus).
3. Clamatoi' jacobimis (Boddaert).
4. Clamator hypopinarius (Cabanis and Heine).
5. Clamator caroli (Norman).
6. Clam,ator brazzce (Oustalet).
7. Clamator cafer (Lichtenstein).
8. Clamator serratus (Sparrmann).
9. Clamator albonotatus (Shelley).—Leonhard Stejneger.
Gerrhonotus casruleus versus Qerrhonotus burnettii.
Through the courtesy of Dr. G. Tornier, Curator of Reptiles in the
Natural History Museum at Berlin, I have been enabled to examine
the type of Wiegmann's Qerrhonotus caruleiis (Isis, 1828, p. 380). The
specimen, though greatly blackened, is in good condition and proves
to belong to thn species which has hitherto been known as Qerrhonotus
burnettii Gray 1831, or Elgaria formosa Baird and Girard 1852. The
type locality is given as "Brasilien" and the collector as A. von Cham-
isso, the celebrated German poet and naturalist. Needless to say no
Qerrhonotus occurs in Brazil, but as von Chamisso on his expedition
around the world also collected at San Francisco, California, where this
species is particularly plentiful, it may be regarded as certain that the
type is from the latter locality. The number of the type specimen in
the Berlin Musevim is 1163.—Leonhard Stejneger.
Ptychozoon kuhli a new name for P. homalocephalum.
The remarkable gecko hitherto known as Ptychozoon homalocephalum
requires a new name, inasmuch as Creveld's Lacerta homalocephala
1809 is preoccupied by Lacerta homalocephala Suckow 1798 (Natur-
geschichte der Thiere, HI, p. 138). As a suitable new name I propose
Ptychozoon kuhli in memory of the ori^<iiiator of the generic name. It
may be remarked that Gray's Ptychozoon horsjleldii is a very distinct
species.—Leonhard Stejneger.