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the collection and report upon it; but nothing resulted from this 

 endeavour except the deplorable loss of such of the original Peale 

 Museum labels as still remained, pinned to or tucked under the wings 

 of some of the birds. These labels were removed from the specimens 

 and put into a paper envelope which was afterward lost. The tickets 

 which now accompany the specimens were probably printed after the 

 collection passed into the custody of the Boston Museum; they 

 consist merely of the name^and habitat of the animals, without any 

 data. I believe the only surviving labels which probably go back to 

 the Peale Museum are two wooden ones belonging to a pair of Golden 

 Pheasants presented to Charles Willson Peale by George Washington.^ 

 I now proceed to my notes made during an examination of the North 

 American birds in this collection, premising that heretofore the origi- 

 nals of only three of Wilson's birds have been located; viz.: — 



Sylvia maritima Wils., Type. 6, 1812, p. 99, pi. 54, fig. 3. 



[ =Dendroica tigrina (Gmel.), 1788]. 



In coll. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. See Orton, Amer. 

 Nat., 4, 1871, p. 714. 



Falco mississippiensis Wils., Type. 3, 1811, p. SO, pi. 25, fig. 1. 



In coll. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. See Stone, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 11; Auk, 16, 1899, p. 169. 



Falco pennsylvanicus Wils., Type. 6, 1812, p. 92, pi. 54, fig. 1. 



[Nom. praeoc. = Sparvius platijpterus Vieill., 1823; Falco wilsonii Bonap., 1824; 

 Falco latissimus Ord, 18241.- 



In coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. See Stone, id supra. 



1 Mr. Maynard tells me that there were also two groups of momited iJjirds arranged 

 in two glass cases, presented by Washington to the Peale Museum; these were trans- 

 ferred with the rest from the Boston Museum to th^ rooms of the Natural History 

 Society, but they had been disposed of before Mr. Maynard purchased the collection. 



2 See Faxon, Auk, 18, April, 1891, p. 217. 



