27j BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1799 593 



1799. Barton, B. S.— Continued. 



Passage. Sect. II. Autumnal and Winter Birds of Passage. Sect. Ill is an an- 

 notated List of the resident Birds of Pennsylvania, occupying twT folios. Then 

 follow occasional or accidental residents, occasional visitants, and "Additions ". 

 The "Appendix", pp. 15-24, contains observations on the greater number of the 

 birds which are mentioned in the preceding tables. 



Barton was a strict binomialist ; his nomenclature, however, is very imperfect 

 being modelled closely after Bartram ; his tract, in fact, furnishes a valuable 

 commentary on Bartram, and a quasi-concordance of the Bartramian nomencla- 

 ture. Some new names are given to birds, in Sects. I and II, as follows, though 

 mostly without proper description, it Ruy.-Frwgilla domestica, p. 1, nodescr., 

 = Spizella socialis ; P. esiiis, p. 1, no descr. (undetermined); J', jjinws [Bartram]', 

 p. 1, nodescr., = Chrysomitrispimis; Certhia familiaris, p. 3 [necauct], nodescr.' 

 = Troglodytes acdon V., = Motacilla dome«rim Bartram ; Certhia floridana, p. 5, no 

 descT., = Thryothorus ludovicianus ,- Strix diurnalis, -p. 9, nodescr., indet'.; these 

 being those which are marked " mihi"in the calendar, though some of them are 

 Bartram's, and though the calendar also includes some other names I never saw 

 elsewhere. None of these are described at all. In Sect. Ill, where the birds are 

 noted "in the order of the Linnasan arrangement ", and especially in the "Appen- 

 dix", we find a much better state of things; some new names occurring accom- 

 panied by sufficient description to entitle them to recognition, like Hinrndo hor- 

 reorum for example, and many other species of Bartram's being here identified 

 and described under their Bartramian names. Whence it is obvious, that those 

 who fight shy ot. Bartram's names, for whatever reason, must take a number of 

 them on Barton's characterization. The following commentary will make the 



point clear at which I aim : 



Page 11. 



"Falcoregalis of Bartram. Travels. Great Gray Eagle. This is our largest 

 Eagle." (Obviously = Haliaetus leucocephalus, juv.) 



"Ealco AQuiLiAus of Bartram. Travels. Great Red-TaUed Hawk. This is 

 the largest species of Hawk hitherto discovered in Pennsylvania. The tail is of 

 a red brick color." (Now, those who refuse to accept the specific term aquilimis 

 from Bartram, 1791, may say BUTEO AQUILINUS (Barton, 1799)! instead of 

 B. borealis Vieill.) 



" Falco glaucus of Bartram. Travels." (Bartram's description is repeated. 

 Now, those who decline to have anything to do with Bartram, on the ground of 

 his untenable nomenclature, will necessarily observe that ELANUS GLAUCUS 

 (Barton, 1799)! must lepiace B. leucurus Temm.) 



" Strix varius of Bartram. MS." (The description clearly indicates that 

 this is a synonym of S. nebulosa Forster, 1772.) 



"Lanius collurio? Red-backed Shrike." (Apparently intended for the 

 young plumage of L. borealis. ) 



"CORVuscoiiONE. Carrion Crow. (Crow) This is the Corvus frugivorus of 

 Bartram." (As I recently contended in Pr. PhiU. Acad., 1875, 346.) 



" Certhia FuscA of Bartram. MS. Brown-Creeper." (Fully described A 

 synonym of Certhia ru/a Bartram, Trav., y!^\, = C.famUiaris auct ) 



Page 13. 



"PsiTTACUSPERTiNAX? Elinois Parrot? Either this or some other species of 

 the genus deserves to bo mentioned among the birds of Pennsylvania." (Obvi- 

 on.sly referring to Conurus caroUnensis.) 



Page 15. 



'' MusciCAPA FUSCA. This is the Muscicapa nnnciolaof Bartram. Travels." 



"Alauda RUBRA. The Alauda migratoria of Bartram. Travels. The Alauda 

 fusca of the same gentleman." 



" FuixGiLLA UO.MESTICA (mihi). Motacilla domestica, or Eegulus rufus of Bar- 

 tram. Travels. In very mild winters, this sociable domestic little bird continues 

 with us. It 13 the earliest of our spring singing birds. Its note is tremulous 

 and agreeable. Catesby has figured it. Vol. i, P 35." (This is verv uncertain • 

 Catesby's pi. 35 has been supposed to bo Spizella pusilla, but never satisftictorily 

 identified, and Bartram's Motacilla domestica is the House AVren ) 



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