442 Mr. Vigors's Sketches in Ornithology/. 



19. Leistes humeralis. 



Leist, corpore rostro pedibusque nigris^pdlis rufescenti-auran" 

 tiacis, 



LoHgitudo corporis, 6| ; rostri ad frontem, ^, ad rictum, ^ ; ai(e 

 a carpo ad remigem Stiam^ 3| ; caudce^ 3J ; tarsi^ •§. 



20. Sturneli^a Lujjoviciana. Fieill., Gal. des Ois. p. 134. 



pi 90. 

 Sturnus Ludovicianus. Linn., I. p, 290. no. 3. Prince of 



Musign., Gen. N* Am. Birds, sp. 48. 

 Alauda magna. Linn., I. p. 289. wo. 11. IVils., Am, 

 Orn. III. p. 20. pi. 19./. 2. 

 ' Louisiane Stare. Lath., Gen. Hist, V. p, 6. wo. 4, 



21. QuiscuLus versicolor. Vieill., Gal. des Ois. p. 171. pl^ 



100. Prince ofMusign., Gen. N. Am. Birds, sp. 56. 



Am. Orn. I. p. 45. pi. 5.f. I, Female, 

 Gracula quiscula. Linn,, I. p. 165. wo. 7. Wils,, Am, 



Orn. III. p. 44. 

 Purple Grakle. Penn., Arct. Zool. IT. no. 153. fF?/*., 



-4m. Orw. p/. 21. /. 4. i.a^A., Gew. Hist. III. p. 174, 



710. 35. 

 The name of this genus has been lately changed into that of 

 Chalcophanes,hy M.Temminck, [PI. Col. 214] on no grounds that 

 to me at least appear sufficient to authorise the erasure of aq 

 established name. A change it is true has been still more lately 

 asserted to be necessary,* in consequence as is alleged of the name 

 being pre-occupied in Botany. If it is the Linnean genus Quism 

 qualis that is alluded to (and I know no other that at all ap- 

 proaches to the name of M. Vieillot's genus), the change appears 

 to me uncalled for. DifFeriiig totally in the source from whence 

 it is derived, and in the signification which it bears, and clashing 

 neither in orthography nor pronunciation, Quiscw/MS+ can never, 

 I think, be confounded with Qmsqualis, 



* See Philos. Magazine for June, 1827. 



+ This appears to be the original Linnean orthography of the word. It has 

 latterly been written Quiscalus. 



