12 proceedings of the academy of [1899. 



Charles L. Bonaparte. 



Bonaparte's types, described iu his American Ornithology, were 

 either deposited in Peale's Museum or in his own collection. 

 None of them appear to have been in the Academy collection, nor 

 is there any trace of the types of several species described in the 

 Journal oi the Academy, 1824-1827. 



Several of his types of foreign birds Avere, however, received in 

 later years from Verreaux or Massena. A list of them follows: 



Nothocercus Julius (Bp.). 



Tlnainus Julius Bp. Compt. Rend., xxxvii (1853), p. 633. 



12,914. (^ Colomb'a. From Verreaitx. Type. 

 Platycercus amathusiae (Bp.). 



Pldtycercus ahiathusix Bp. Compt. Rend., xxx (1850), p. 133. 



22,860. Australia. Type. 



Bonaparte quotes ' ' Gould MSS. ' ' as authority for this species, 

 but Gould had not at that time published the species, and when he 

 did, in 1855 (Pt. 2, p. 166) he used another name, P. cyanogenys, 

 so that Bonapai'te remains as the authority for the species. Gould's 

 type is in the British Museum. 



Ortygometra verreauxi (Bp.) Compt. Rend., xlili, pp. .5>.)9, 600. 

 Ortygometra sclateri (Bp.) Compt. Rend., xliii, pp. 599, 600. 



These are nomina nuda so far as I can ascertain. The species 

 Avere later published by Sclater and Salvin as 0. castaneicejifi and 

 hauxwelli respectively. The " tyj)e specimens" of Bonaparte are 

 in the Academy collection received from Verreaux. 

 Diphyllodes respublica (Bp.). See under Schlegelia wilsoni of Cassin. 



John K. Toavnsend. 



The new species of birds described by Towusend and Audubon 

 from the Columbia river and Rocky mountains were obtained on 

 an expedition undertaken by Townsend aud Nuttall early iu 1834. 



Nuttall returned iu October, 1835, via Hawaii aud California, 

 arriving home in August, 1836, while Townsend spent another 

 year on the Columbia, visiting the South Pacific and Chile on liis 

 return. ^^ 



Nuttall met Audubon in Boston immediately after his return and 

 gave him such notes as he had made ou the Western birds for use 

 in the Ornithological Biography. The only new birds which he seems 



" See Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, etc. 



