120 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature PROPOSED SUPPRESSION UNDER THE PLENARY POWERS OF THE SPECIFIC NAME " FEROX " GMELIN (S.G.), 1771, AS PUB-USHED IN THE COMBINATION " ACCIPITER FEROX " (CLASS AVES) (APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO SECURE A CLARinCATION OF " OPINION " 67) By FRANCIS HEMMING, CM.G., C.B.E., Secretary to the Intemaiional Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (Commission Reference : Z.N.(S.) 1052) The purpose of the present apphcation is to ask the International Com-mission on Zoological Nomenclature to use its Plenary Powers to suppress the specific name /eroa: Gmelin (S.G.), 1771 {Nov. Comment. Acad. imp. Sci. petrop. 15 : 442), as published in the combination Accipiter ferox, in order to provide an assured position for the specific name gallicus Gmehn (J.F.), 1788 (in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. 13) 1(1) : 259), as pubhshed in the combination Falco gallicus, the specific name of the type species of Circaetus Vieillot, 1816, a name which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the Ruling given by the International Commission in Opinion 67 (1916, Smithson. Publ. 2409 : 177—182). 2. This matter is one of considerable urgency, for arrangements are now well advanced for the early pubUcation of the Official Lists in book-form and the present is one of a relatively small number of cases where further action by the Commission is required before pubhcation can take place. 3. The present case arises out of a General Directive issued by the Thirteenth International Congress of Zoology, Paris, 1948, which placed upon the Inter-national Commission the obUgation (a) to enter on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology the specific name of the type species of every genus, the name of which had prior to that date been placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, where that name was the oldest available such name for the species concerned and, (b) in other cases to place on the Official List whatever might be found to be the oldest available name for the species in question. 4. Towards the close of 1955 steps were taken by the International Commission to comply with the foregoing Directive in so far as it apphed to the names of the type species of genera of birds which had been placed on the Bull. zool. Nomencl. Vol. 12, Part 4. July 1956.
Proposed suppression under the plenary powers of the specific name ferox Gmelin (S.G.), 1771, as published in the combination Accipiter ferox (Class Aves) (Application submitted to secure a clarification of Opinion 67)
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