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foot-note on i>. 47, that he distinctly names K americana as the type of the 

 genus ("Eeconoscemmo inoltre, che quest' uccello [E.melanocephala] e il 

 perfetto analogo della Fringilla americana tipo di quel Sottogenbe"). 

 Four years later, however, Bonaparte proposed the name Euspiza for 

 the same type ("Saggio," p. 141), but according to recognized rules this 

 later name becomes simply a synonym of Spisa, as does also Cabanis's 

 name Buspina, the latter substitued for Euspiza (Mus. Hein., I, p. 133), 

 under the misapprehension that the type of the latter was the Em- 

 heriza melanocephala of Scopoli (see M. H., p. 130)— a species not only 

 generically distinct from E. americana, Gmel., but moreover hardly a 

 member of the same subfamily. 



201. Phonipara zena (Linn.) Bryant.— ^^ Fringilla bicolor,^^ Linn., S. N., 

 ed. 12 (1760) =i^. zena, Linn., S. K, ed. 10 (1758). 



200. Pijnlo fuscus mesoleucus (Baird) B. B. & R. — The Arizona 

 form of this species is very easily distinguishable from the true fuscus 

 of Mexico, the latter being without the rufous cap of mesoleucus^ the 

 colors in general darker, etc. 



212 &. Agekcus tricolor (Nutt.) Bp. — Totally distinct from A. phceni- 

 ecus. 



233. Pica rustioa hudsonica (Sab.) Baird. — The earliest available 

 name for the European Magpie appears to be Corvus rusticus, Scopoli 

 (1769), which considerably antedates '■'' melanoleuca, Vieill." (1818), and 

 is now adopted by European authorities. ( Cf. Dresser, Birds of Europe, 

 pt. xxii.) The American bird, therefore, if to be separated subspeci- 

 fically from the European (for which there certainly seems suflBcient 

 reason), should be named as above. 



239 a (Appendix). Perisoreus obscurus, Ridgw. — Since the original des- 

 cription of this bird was published Mr. Henshaw has obtained addi- 

 tional specimens, and, by an examination of them, together with the 

 types, has adopted Mr. Sharpe's conclusion (Cat. B. Brit. Mus., Ill, p. 

 105) that the form in question is a distinct species, an opinion in which 

 I at present wholly agree. Not so, however, with capitalis, Baird, which 

 Mr. Sharpe treats in the same manner; the latter unquestionably grades 

 directly into P. canadensis, and consequently, notwithstanding it is a 

 very strongly marked form, should be called P. canadensis capitalis. 



The Perisoreus ohscurus is of much more restricted range than was at 

 first supposed, and probably does not extend much, if any, north of 

 Sitka. The examples alluded to in Hist. N. Am. B. (Vol. II, p. 302), 

 as coming from "north of Sitka and in the Yukon territory," and which 

 were stated to " incline toward the var. canadensis,''^ are in reality refer- 

 able to P. canadensis, of which they constitute a separable race, distin- 

 guished by the less extent and dingy or smoky tinge of the frontal 



