374 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Piranga rubriceps Gray. Gray's Tanager. 



Pyranga rubriceps Gray, Genera of Birds, II, Pt. 3, July, 1844, pi. 89. 

 (No locality cited = Colombia.) 



The only North American record is based on a specimen taken, about 1871, 

 at Dos Pueblos [ = Naples], Santa Barbara County, California, which was 

 probably an escaped cage bird (Bryant, Auk, IV, 1887, 78 . 



Entered in the Hypothetical List in the third edition. 



Acanthis brewsteri (Ridgway). Brewster's Linnet. 



Aegioihus {flai'iroslris var.) breivsterii Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VI, No. 7, 

 July, 1872, 434. (Waltham, Mass.) 



Known only from the type specimen, taken Nov. 1, 1870. Possibly a 

 hybrid between Acanthis linaria (Linnaeus) and Spinus pinus (Wilson). 



Spinus notatus (Du Bus). Black-headed Goldfinch. [532.] 



Carduelis notata Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg., XIV, Pt. 2, 1847, 106. 

 (Mexico.) 



Audubon's record of this Middle American species at Hendersonville, 

 Kentucky, is not satisfactory and it is now tiansfeired to the Hypothetical List. 



Spua townsendi (Audubon). Townsend's Bunting. 



Emberiza toivnsendi Audubon, Orn. Biog., II, 1834, 183. (New Garden, 

 Chester County, Pennsylvania.) 



Known only from the type specimen, taken May 11, 1833, by John K. 

 Townsend. Its peculiarities cannot be accounted for by hybridism nor 

 probably by individual variation (cf. Check-List, ed. I, 1886, 354.) 



While a number of Old World or South American birds have from time to 

 time been included in the Hypothetical List on the basis of captures of sup- 

 posed escaped cage birds in North America other cases have been dismissed 

 at once as escapes and never having been brought before the Committee were 

 not included in the List although quite as much entitled to such treatment as 

 those which have been included. Ridgway (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, 1881, 

 84) gives a "very incomplete" list of ten such species and others have been 

 recorded more recently such as the Calandra Lark, Melanocorijpha calandra 

 (Linnaeus) (Gillespie, Auk, XLV, July, 1928, 375; and the Mexican Paro- 

 quet Aralinga h. holochlora (Sclater) (Barbour, Auk, XLII, Jan., 1925, 132) 

 etc., etc. 



There are also additional cases of foreign birds alleged to have been taken 

 in North America but which were probably wrongly attributed to that con- 

 tinent. While these have been rejected by the Committee or never came 



