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and especially stronger in the bill. All the specimens of this species, except 

 one, and specimens of various other species of this group, were stolen by a 

 visitor to the Acad. Mus. some years since, and never recovered. 



Several specimens, in excellent plumage and condition, are in Mr. Swift's 

 collection. 



6. Dendkoica petechia, (Linnjeus). 



Motacilla petechia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 334, (1766). 



Motacilla ruficapilla, Gm. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 971, (1788). 



Chloris eritachoides, Feuille, Jour. Obs. Phys. hi. p. 413, (1725). 



Ficedula pensylvanica erythrocephalos, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 488. 



Ficedula martinicana, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 490, (1760). 

 Edwards' Birds, v. pi. 256, fig. 2. Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. ii, pi. 91* 

 Bris. Orn. iii. pi. xxii. fig. 4. ' 

 This is undoubtedly the true Motacilla petechia, Linnseus, founded on the 

 description of Ficedula martinicana, by Brisson, as above cited. Though we 

 have frequently seen this species in collections, Mr. Swift's specimens are 

 the first that have come under our notice, the locality of which is authentic. 

 Numerous specimens in Mr. Swift's collection are in various plumages, 

 though the greater number are nearly or quite mature, and show the reddish 

 chesnut-colored crown quite well defined and conspicuous. This bird is 

 larger than D. cestiva of tbe United States, with which it has sometimes been 

 confounded, and is not difficult to recognize from Brisson's excellent descrip- 

 tion above cited. It is the same bird also as Brisson's Ficedula pensylvanica 

 erythrocephalos, founded on Edwards' figure, above referred to, who (Edwards) 

 expressly states that he did not know the locality of the specimen figured, 

 but guessed, wrongly, that another, received from Pennsylvania, was the 

 female of the same species. Hence concluding erroneously that his bird was 

 a North American species. This erroneous guess and conjectural conclusion 

 misled Brisson, Buffon, and a host of other authors, to the present era, but is 

 easily detected by referring to the text of Edwards, vol. v. p. 99. 



7. Parula Americana, (Linnaeus). 



Parus americanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 341, (1766). 

 Motacilla eques, Bod. Tab. PI. Enl. p. 46, (1783). 



Motacilla americana et ludoviciana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 960, 983, (1788). 

 Sylvia torquata, Viell. Ois. d'Am. Sept. ii. p. 38, (1808). 

 Sylvia pusilla, Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. p. 17, (1811). 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 731, fig. 1. Viell. Ois. d'Am. Sept. ii. pi. 99. Wilson, 

 Am. Orn. iv. pi. 28. Aud. B. of Am. i. pi. 15 oct. ed. ii. pi. 91. 

 One specimen only, in Mr. Swift's collection, is specifically identical with 

 numerous others now before me, from the neighborhood of Philadelphia. 

 In nearly mature plumage and excellent preservation, and probably a winter 

 traveller from its place of nativity in the North. 



S. Merula fuscata, (Vieillot). 



Turdus fuscatus, Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. ii. p. 2, (1807). 

 Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. ii. pi. 57, bis. 

 Numerous specimens, and apparently a common species in several of the 

 islands of the West Indies. 



9. Phonipara bicolor, (Linnaeus). 



Fringilla bicolor, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 324, (1766). 

 Tiaris omissa, Jardine, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 332, (1847)? 

 Catesby's Carolina, i. pi. 37. Gosse, B. of Jamaica, pi. 64. 

 Two specimens only, in Mr. Swift's collection, are not in fully mature plumage, 

 and we look for others from him with interest. They do not correspond in all 

 respects with specimens in the Acad. Mus., which we have hitherto regarded 

 as certainly the species to which this name is applicable, but we cannot, 

 at present, venture to indicate a different species. It is possible that these 



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