The Black-necked Grebe.

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Feb 1931

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Nature, Volume 127, Issue 3199, pp. 274 (1931).

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I OWE thanks to the Writer of the Note on the black-necked grebe for correcting my error in naming Linnæus instead of Latham as responsible for the generic title of the grebes (NATURE, Feb. 7, p. 201); but when he goes on to say that the ``name is a label and need have no meaning in itself'', I must ask how a label can be justified that conveys a false meaning, as Podiceps does. Are misprints in scientific nomenclature to be reckoned indelible? That has not been the opinion of such ornithologists as Seebohm, A. H. Evans in the ``Cambridge Natural History'', and Prof. Alfred Newton, who all write Podicipes. In his ``Dictionary of Birds'', Newton notes about Podicipedidæ-``often, but erroneously, written Podicipidæ. The word Podiceps, as commonly spelt, being a contracted form of the original Podicipes (cf. Gloger, Journal für Ornithologie, 1854, p. 430, note), a combination of podex, podicis, and pes, pedis, its further compounds must be in accordance with its derivation''.

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