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AMONG the many radical changes in zoological nomenclature proposed of late years, none appear to me more open to objection than those where names which have Jong been in general use for particular species or groups are transferred to others on the ground that they were originally applied to the latter. One of the earliest of such transpositions was suggested by Prof. Newton, of Cambridge, who urged that Strix is not the proper generic designation of the barn-owl, and that while this species should be called Aluco flammeus, the tawny owl should take the generic title Strix, as S. aluco. I find, however, that this emendation is not accepted in the British Museum “Hand-list of Birds,” where the barn-owl figures under its familiar title of Strix flammea. Uniformity is not, therefore, attained by this proposal.
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LYDEKKER, R. The Transposition of Zoological Names. Nature 71, 608 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071608a0
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