44 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



chusetts State Cabinet. W'ith an Appendix containing supplementary 

 Notes. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged. Boston : Noyes, Holmes 

 and Company, 117 Washington Street. 1870. 8vo. p. 581. 



The first edition of this hydra-headed work that contains an appendi.\, in which under 

 'Cent?-oiiyx Bairtiii ' appears mention of tlie capture of Mr. Maynard's supposed speci- 

 men. A retitled edition, as late as 18S3, does not revise the record ! 



1872. Brewster, William. Birds New to Massachusetts Fauna. — - Amer. Nat. 

 VI, p. 307. 



Records capture by Mr. Maynard, at Ipswich, of a second and a third specimen of 

 the supposed Centronyx Bairdii. 



1872. CouES, Elliott. Key to North American Birds containing a concise 

 account of every species of Living and Fossil Bird at present known 

 from the continent north of the Me.xican and United States boundary. 

 Illustrated by 6 steel plates, and upwards of 250 woodcuts. By Elliott 

 Coues, Assistant Surgeon United States Army. Salem : Naturalists' 

 Agency. New York : Dodd and Mead. Boston : Estes and Lauriat. 



1872. Imp. 8vo. pp. 135 and 352. 



In tire appendix due credit is given Mr. Maynard for the newly recognized Passercu- 

 lus princcps. 



18S4, 2d edition, an extended description at pp. 361, 362; the 3d ed., 1887, and 4tli 

 ed., 1890, are printed from the same plates, and appendices are added. 



1872. Maynard, Charles Johnson. A New Species of Passerculus from Eastern 



Massachusetts. — Amer. Nat. VI, pp. 637, 638. 



The three known specimens are at last recognized as belonging to a new species 

 -fi\aQ}i\\i n-3xa&A Passerculus priiiccps. Cf. Zoological Record for 1872, p. 51, 1874, and 

 Coues, 3d instal. bibliog., Bull. U. S. Surv. Terr. 1879, V, no. 4, p. 638, 1S80. 



1873. Coues, Elliott. Notes on Two little-known Birds of the United States. 



— Amer. Nat. VII, p. 696. 



The birds are Centronyx bainiii and Aitthus sprugiiei, with references to the supposed 

 Massachusetts specimens of the former species. 



1873. Coues, Elliott. A Check-List of North American Birds. By Elliott Coues 



Salem: Naturalists' Agency. 1873. 8vo. pamph., p. 31. 



Also issued as the second part of ' Field (.)rnithology,' etc., 1874, </. v. We find here 

 the name 'Maynard's Sparrow.' 



1S82, 2d edition, is far more pretentious, and ' Ipswich Savanna .Sparrow ' is the 

 name bestowed at p. 52. 



1874. Baird, Spencer Fullerton, Brewer, Thomas Mayo, and Ridgway, Rob- 



ert. A History of North American Birds by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer 

 and R. Ridgway Land Birds Illustrated by 64 colored plates and 593 

 woodcuts Volume I. [Vignette] Boston Little, Brown and Company 

 1874. Sm. 4to. Vol. I, pp. 533 and 540-542, pi. 25, f. 2. 



This history is founded on the three known specimens. Twice in the text the name 

 'P. inaynardi' is made use of, no doubt inadvertently. 



1874. Coues, Elliott. Field Ornithology. Comprising a Manual of Instruction 

 for procuring, preparing and preserving Birds, and a Check-List of North 

 American Birds. By Ur. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. [Monogram] Salem : 

 Naturalists' Agency. Boston : Estes & Lauriat. New York : Dodd & 

 Mead. 1874. 8vo. 



At p. 31 of the Check-List, which was originally issued as a separate pamphlet in 



1873, '!■'''■ 



