136 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Bubo virginianus virginianus (Gmel.)- 



M. C. Z. No. 67852. Very probably the bird drawn by Wilson, 6, 

 1812, pi. 50, fig. 1. 



CoNUROPsis carolinensis (Linn.). 

 M. C. Z. No. 67853. Original of Wilson's figure, 3, 1811, pi. 26, fig. 1. 



AsYNDESMUs LEWisi Riley. 

 Picus torquatus Wils., 3, 1811, p. 31, pi. 20, fig. 3. Nomen praeoccupatum. 



M. C. Z. No. 67854. A single venerable looking specimen, proba- 

 bly either the type, which was No. 2020 of the Peale iSIuseum (Lewis 

 and Clark Expedition), or else one of the two individuals shot by 

 T. R. l*eale near the Rocky Mountains, on the Long Expedition, 

 I presume (see Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 3, 1824, p. 

 370). 



Chordeiles virginianus virginianus (Gmel.). 



Caprimulgus americanus Wils., 5, 1812, p. 65, pi. 40, fig. 1. Novxen praeoccu- 

 patum. 



M. C. Z. No. 67855. Without doubt Wilson's figured type, male, 

 mounted in the attitude of "booming," like the figure. When I first 

 saw this specimen, after it had reached the Boston Society of Natural 

 History rooms, the open mouth was lined with pinkish sealing-wax, 

 just the colour of this part in Wilson's plate. Wilson probably copied 

 the colour of the wax instead of the inside of a living bird's mouth. 



Otocorys alpestris alpestris (Linn.). 



Alauda alpestris Linn., Wils., 1, 1808, p. 85, pi. 5, fig. 4. 

 Alauda cornuta Wils., 1, 1808, p. 87. 



M. C. Z. No. 67856. Perhaps the original of Wilson's figure. 



