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Ficedida liensilvanica nwvia of Brissou, iii. p. 502, n. 56; the "Figuier ^ tete 

 ceudr^e " of Buffon ; the Dendroeca maculosa, or Black-and-yellow Warbler, 

 of moderu author.-^. 



A bird which is found iu Linuaius is generally reproduced in Gmelin under 

 the same name; but Motacilla canadensis, Linn. sp. 27, above fully explained, 

 disappears with that single author — to be moro precise, it reappears, but 

 under a different title. For we liud it again iu the Motacilla cincta of Gmelin. 

 Gmelin does not, indeed, quote M. canadensis; but ho numbers his cincta 

 "27", and bases it primarily on Brisson's pi. 27, f. 1. Now, Brissou, in de- 

 scribing the yellow spots which exist, one on each side of the breast of D. 

 coronata, spoke of them as if they formed a band or belt across the breast, — 

 "entre le ventre & la poitrine est une bando transversale jaune", says he; 

 and out of this expression comes the "Figuier h ceinture" of the Count do 

 Buffon, and the Belted Warbler of Latham and Pennant, M. cincta Gm. This 

 fourth set of names are to be bundled together with the Motacilla canadensis 

 Linn., sp. 27, and hung upon the peg of Brissou (iii. 524, pi. 27, f. I). 



Besides operating upon the three Linnjean names, coronata, vii-ginianus, and 

 canadensis {^^ cincta), we have discussed, Gmeliu stumbled twice more upon 

 the Yellow-rump, giving us our fifth and sixth Latin binomials, umhria and 

 pinguis. In the Planches EaluminiSes, there is (Igured, at pi. 709, f. 1, a bird 

 called on the plate " Fauvette tachet^e de la Louisiane ", and in Buffon's 

 text "Fauvette ombrde de la Louisiane", which is recognized as a Yellow- 

 rump at first glance ; the same was called the " Dusky Warbler " by Pennant, 

 and the " Umbrose Warbler" by Latham. This became Gmelin's l/o<aci/Za 

 umbria; and all these names go with PE. 709, f. 1. For the sixth time (and, 

 so far as I know, the last for the eighteenth century), the uuhappy Yellow- 

 rump comes upon the stage as Motacilla pinguis— the " Fat Warbler". This 

 name is based upon th°i " Figuier grasset " of Buffon, rendered by Pennant 

 and Latham as the " Grasset Warbler". There is no plate that I know of to 

 refer to in this case, and the descriptions are not as satisfactory as could be 

 wished; but there is no reasonable doubt of the species. For though La- 

 tham, for instance, describes the " throat and fore part of the neck pale 

 rufous", yet the rest of his account is sufficiently pertinent, and the mention 

 of "a spot of yellow on the head" and the "yellow rump" fixes the bird 

 he had iu view as the Yellow-rump in some obscure imperfect plumage in 

 which the yellow on the sides of the breast was not present or not noticed. 

 It is said to be from '* Louisiana ", a term which at that date, it will be re- 

 membered, covered most of the United States west of the Mississippi. 



There is yet another representation of the Yellow-rump, as I take it, 

 though not usually quoted in this connection. I refer to PL Enlnm. 731, f. 2, 

 called " Figuier du Mississipi " on the plate. This has been generally quoted, 

 following Linnseus, Gmelin, and Latham, as pertaining to the Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler (Quebec Warbler of Pennant and Latham), M. icier ocephala, but the 

 plate certainly resembles D. coronata more nearly, whatever may be said of 

 tbe descriptions that go with it. 



I trust that I have made it clear how the vai'ious specific names above 

 cited — coronata, canadensis, virginianus, cincta, umbria, pinguis, and fiavopygia 

 or " xanthopggia ", with xanthorhoa or " xanthoroa " — came to be applied to one 

 and the same species ; how canadensis No. 42 differs from canadensis No. 27 of 

 Linnseus; and how the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher or Warbler of Edwards, 



