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Direction
Content summary (usually brief, or not needed if title is clear)
Date
115
MEROPIDAE (Aves): attributed to Rafinesque, 1815 (Correction to entry No. 1 in the Official List of Family‐group names in Zoology). – Bull. Zool. Nomen. 41 (1): 41‐42.
1984
122
Bubo Duméril, 1806, and Surnia Duméril, 1806 (Aves). Official list entries completed. – Bull. Zool. Nomen., 45: 87‐88.
1988
Type species of Surnia is Strix capensis Statius Muller p. 69.
Case No.
2286
Table 2. Summary of ICZN opinions that seem to affect ornithology.
Opinion
Content summary (usually brief, or not needed if title is clear)
Date
Case No.
8
Rentention of ‐ii or ‐i in specific patronymic names. – pp. 11‐12 in Opinions 1‐25. – Smithsonian Institution (Publ. No. 1938).
1910
26
Cypsilurus vs. Cypselurus. – pp. 63‐64 in Opinions 26‐ 29. – Smithsonian Institution (Publ. No. 1989).
1910
Cypsilurus should be corrected to Cypselurus.
1911
Swainson’s bird genera in the Philosophical Magazine of 1827 are monotypic, and according to Article 30c the species mentioned are the types of their respective genera. Therefore, these types must take precedence over the designated types of Swainson which occurred later, in the Zoological Journal of 1827.
30
Swainson’s bird genera of 1827. – pp. 69‐72 in Opinions 30‐37 pp. 69‐88] Smithsonian (Publ. No. 2013).
31
Columbina vs. Chaemepelia. Pp. 73‐75 in Opinions 30‐ 37. – Smithsonian Institution (Publ. No. 2013).
1911
In 1840 [G.R.] Gray designated as type of Columbina Spix, Columba passerina Linn. As this species is not one of the original species of Columbina Spix, Gray’s type designation is not valid and Columbina* remains without a designated type. [* Footnote by Commissioner L. Stejneger: “At the time of the writting of Opinion 31, the second edition of Gray’s list of the Genera of Birds, published 1841, had not been seen by the writer, nor was the point bought out clearly in the documents submitted, and hence escaped notice, that Columbina strepitans Spix was designated by Gray in 1841, p. 75, as the type of Columbina. This action of Gray is undoubtedly valid and the type of Columbina is therefore C. strepitans Spix. In view of this fact bought to the attention of the Commission by Mr. W.E.Clyde Todd, Opinion 31 is hereby changed accordingly, and will be submitted to the members of the Commission for approval.”] The valid type of Chaemepelia Swainson is Columba passerina Linn., designated by Gray, 1841.
37
Shall the genera of Brisson’s Ornithologia, 1760, be accepted? – pp. 87‐88 in Opinions 30‐37 pp. 69‐88. [Smithsonian Publ. 2013].
1910
Brisson’s (1760) generic names of birds are available under the Code.
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