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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3951282" data-attributes="member: 24811">Yes if you take the type fixation from: Gray GR. 1840. A list of the genera of birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. R and JE Taylor, London.; p. 27; <a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668921" target="_blank">https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668921</a> -- as is done conventionally.Fifteen years earlier, Prideaux John Selby (Selby PJ. 1825. Illustrations of British ornithology. Vol. I. Land birds. WH Lizard, Edinburg.; p. xxix & xxxii; <a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38626829" target="_blank">https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38626829</a> & <a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38626796" target="_blank">https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38626796</a> ) designated Turdus merula. Selby's designations are admittedly a bit unconventional (he listed species under a title 'Types of the genera' at the start of his book, using only vernacular names and associating them with a generic name; then he associated a scientific name to these vernaculars lower down in his text). Yet, Coracias and Alauda are on the Official List with similar type fixations accepted from this work.</blockquote>