96 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature PROPOSED ADDITION TO THE "OFFICIAL LIST OF SPECIFIC TRIVIAL NAMES IN ZOOLOGY" OF THE TRIVIAL NAME " SYRIACUS " ROTHSCHILD, 1910 (AS PUBLISHED IN THE COMBINATION " STRUTHIO CAMELUS SYRIACUS"), THE TRIVIAL NAME OF THE SYRIAN OSTRICH (CLASS AVES) By R. MEINERTZHAGEN, D.S.O. (London) (Commission's reference Z.N.(S.)633) The object of the present application is to ask the International Com-mission on Zoological Nomenclature to place on the Official List of Specific Trivial Names in Zoology the trivial name syriacus Rothschild, 1910 (as pub-lished in the combination Struthio camelus syriacus), the trivial name of the Syrian Ostrich. 2. The relevant facts in regard to this case are as follows : — (1) The Ostrich was named Struthio camelus by Linnaeus in 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 587). Linnaeus gave " Syria, Arabia, Libya and Africa " as the locahties for this bird. In addition, he gave biblio-graphical references to Aldrovandus, Dodart, Seba, Willughby and Albin. The localities given for the Ostrich by the authorities cited by Linnaeus were : (1) Syria, Sind, Arabia, Libya and Arguin Island, Mauretania (Aldrovandus. through older authors cited) ; (2) Cape of Good Hope (Seba) ; (3) Africa and Arabia (Willughby) ; * (4) Deserts of Arabia and Africa (Albm). No locaUty was specified by Dodart. (2) It is clear from the particulars given above that, from the point of view of the particulars given in 1758, the nominal species Struthio camelus comprised what are now regarded as several distinct subspecies of the Ostrich. (3) In 1910 the late Lord Rothschild {Bull. hrit. ornith. Club 39 : 83) gave " North Africa " as the type locahty for nominotypical Strvihio camelus camelus and published the name Struthio camelus syriacus for the Syrian Ostrich, which has accordingly been known by that name for the last thirty-two years. (4) Quite recently (1951, Bull. hrit. ornith. Club 71 : 45-46) Grant and Mackworth-Praed have advanced the view that " Syria," as being the first of the locahties cited by Linnaeus must be regarded as the type locality of nominotypical Struthio camelus Liimaeus, 1758 ; they accordingly sink the trivial name syriacus Rothschild, 1910, as an objective synonym of nominotypical camelus Linnaeus, and, having thus left the North African Ostrich without an avail-able name, give it the name Struthio camelus rothschildi " new race." The type locality is given as " Marandet, south Air or Azibine, Niger district, French West Africa." The holotype is an adult male in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). I
Proposed addition to the Official List of Specific Trivial Names in Zoology of the trivial name syriacus Rothschild, 1910 (as published in the combination Struthio camelus syriacus), the trivial name of the Syrian Ostrich (Class Aves)
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