Burns — On Alexander Wilson. 77 



1864. Allen, J. A. Catalogue of the Birds of Springflekl, Mass., 

 Proc. Essex Inst. IV. Wilsonia minuta Bou. p. 83. ("This lit- 

 tle known and rather doubtful species is said to occi;r in this 

 State.") 



1865. Baird, S. F. Review of American Birds, Smithsonian Miscel- 

 laneous Collections. Part I. Myiodioctes minutus, p. 241. 

 ("Hab. Eastern U. S. This species continues to be unknown 

 to modern ornithologists, no specimens being recorded as ex- 

 tant in collections.") 



1868. Cones, Dr. Elliott, U. S. A. Catalogue of the Birds of North 

 America contained in the Museum of the Essex Institute ; with 

 which is incorporated a List of the Birds of New England, 

 with brief Critical and Field Notes. Proc. Essex Inst. V. 

 Muscicapa or Myiodioctes "miniita," p. 275. 



1869. Allen, J. A. Notes on Some of the Rarer Birds of Massa- 

 chusetts. TJie American Naturalist, III. Wilsonia minuta, 

 Bon. p. 577. ("This rather apocryphal species is given by 

 Peabody as having been met with at Ipswich by Dr. Brewer, 

 and in Berkshire County by Dr. Emmons. Dr. Brewer writes 

 me that in 1834 his cat caught a specimen of this species in 

 Roxbury, which he sent to Audubon, though as Dr. Brewer ob- 

 serves, he (Audubon) makes no mention of it." Cf. Brewer 

 in History of N. A. Birds, compare dates. 



1869. Gray, G. R. Hand List of Generia and Species of Birds, Part 

 1. [Setophaga] minuta, p. 244. ("E. of U. States." 



1869. Turnbull, William P. Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey. Myiodioctes minutus, p. 53. Philadelphia ed., p. 42. 



1872. Coues, Elliott. Key to North American Birds, Muscicapa min- 

 uta, pp. 109-110. 



1873. Stearns, Winfried A., and Coues, Elliott. New England Bird 

 Life, I. Wilsonia minuta, p. 173. Same in 2nd ed. 1883. ("The 

 name has been dropped out of the recent lists, and should not 

 be restored without good authority." Coues In foot-note.) 



1874. Baird S. F., Brewer, T. M., and Ridgway, R. A History of 

 North American Birds, I, Myiodioctes minutes, p. 316, pi. 16, 

 f. 2. (Same in reprint, 1905.) 



1875. Brewer, T. M. Catalogue of the Birds of New England, with 

 brief notes indicating the manner and character of their pres- 

 ence ; with a list of species included in previous catalogues 



believed to have been wrongly classed as Birds of New P::ng- 

 land, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XVII, 1874-1875. *Myiodi- 

 octes minutus. Baird, p. 440. "Wenham, Mass." (*Denotes 

 " accidental, very local, or those known to have occurred only 

 in a single instance.") 



