138 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linn.). 

 Loxia rosea Wils., 2, 1810, p. 135. 



M. C. Z. No. 67862, 67863. Wilson describes the adult male and 

 female and a young male in the first spring plumage, citing three 

 corresponding specimens in the Peale Museum, 5806, male; 5806 A, 

 male one year old; 5807, female. This is the sole instance of his 

 referring to more than two specimens of a kind in the Museum. 

 The species is represented in the Boston Museum collection by two 

 specimens, a female and a young male of the first spring in the 

 plumage described by Wilson. The presence of the young male in 

 this peculiar plumage makes it extremely probable that we have 

 here two of the three Peale specimens. Both of the males described 

 by Wilson were shot late in April a few miles from Philadelphia. 



As I am reading the proof of these pages, Mrs. L. C. Kimball 

 sends to the Museum a few specimens from the Boston Museum 

 collection which had been retained by the Kimball family. iVmong 

 them is the missing Rose-breasted Grosbeak, — the adult male, 

 mounted with the wings half spread, as in Wilson's plate 17, figure 

 2, substantiating the surmise ventured in the preceding paragraph. 

 This specimen, now M. C. Z. No. 67864, may, I think, be accepted 

 without doubt as the figured type of Loxia rosea Wils. 



Petrochelidon lunifroxs lunifroxs (Say). 



M. C. Z. No. 67865. Mounted to simulate a flying bird, like 

 Bonaparte's figure of " Hirundo fulva Vieill." (Amer. Orn., 1, 1825, 

 pi. 7, fig. 1, Peale Mus. No. 7624), and probably the specimen drawn. 

 According to Bonaparte the Cliff Swallow had not at that time ad- 

 vanced further east than western New York, and it is possible that 

 his drawing was made from one of Say's types from the Long Expedi- 

 tion, which were in the Peale ^Museum. 



ViREOSYLVA GILVA GILVA (Vieill.). 

 Muscicapa melodia Wils., 5, 1812, p. 36, pi. 42, fig. 2. 



M. C. Z. No. 67866. Posed as in the act of singing, with open bill 

 and swelling throat, like Wilson's figure, but with the tail more de- 

 pressed. A probable type. 



