32 . Bulletin of Zoological Nmnendature PROPOSED USE OF THE PLENARY POWERS TO SUPPRESS FOUR TRIVIAL NAMES FOR BIRDS PUB-LISHED BY ANTON AUGUST HEINRICH LICHTENSTEIN IN 1793 Application submitted by the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature of the International Ornithological Congress (Commission's reference Z.N.(S.)526) Coveriug letter, with enclosure, dated IQth October, 1950, from Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature of the International Ornithological Congress. As Chairman of the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature, I beg to forward to you the annexed application relating to four trivial names for birds published by A. Lichenstein in 1793, for favour of decision by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. The Standing Committee is imanimous in its view as regards the first and second of the names dealt with in the present appUcation. In the case of the third name {Cuculus sulphuratus Lichtenstein (A.), 1793), one member of the Standing Committee (Dr. John T. Zimmer) does not support the proposal submitted. The problem dealt with in-the present appUcation has been discussed by Meise & Stresemann in a paper entitled " Notes on South African birds des-cribed in A. Lichtenstein 's ' Catalogus,' 1793," pubHshed earher this year in the Ibis (Meise & Stresemann, 1950, Ibis 92 : 22-26), extracts from which are quoted in the appUcation now submitted. I have to add that a slight amplification is necessary in the case of the third of the proposals now submitted to the International Commission by the Standing Committee. The object of that proposal is to provide a secure legal foimdation for the trivial name jtava Vieillot, 1817 (as pubUshed in the binominal combina-tion Campeplmga jlava), and for this pmrpose the Standing Committee propose in the annexed application that the International Commission should iise its plenary powers for the jjurpose of suppressing the earlier trivial name sulphuratus Lichtenstein, 1793 (as pubUshed in the binominal combination Cuculus sulphuratus). It must be noted however that, as shown by Meise and Strese-mann in their paper published in the Ibis in 1950 (extracts from which are incorporated in the application now submitted), Lichtenstein was in doubt as to whether the bird which he was describing was a cuckoo or a shrike. In addition to giving this bird the name Cuculus sulphuratus, he therefore gave it also the name Lanius Jlavescens. The appUcation now submitted by the
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