96 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 71. 



baltimorus" and '' Oriolits haltimorc" should be transposed; 

 and I would add that in the later copies or second edition 

 (1809) of the initial volume, it is identical with the reprint 

 (1824). Bonaparte employed the second edition of the first 

 volume as reference in preparing that part of his Observa- 

 tions on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology. 



Dr. Walter Faxon writes me as follows : " I notice you 

 repeat the statement [Wilson Bulletin, No. 68, p. 140] made, 

 I think, by Coues [Proc. Boston Soc, XII, 1868, p. 106; and 

 Birds of the Colorado Valley, 1878, pp. 24 and 34], by J. A. 

 Allen [Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, II, 1870-71, pp. 251 and 254], 

 and by Ridgway [Birds of North and Central America, 1907, 

 49 and 56; also Baird, Birds, 1858. 209], that Wilson's figure 

 of the Hermit Thrush is in reality the Olive-backed Thrush. 

 This is an error — due to the faulty coloration of Wilson's 

 published plates. I possess the original colored drawing of 

 Wilson, from which Lawson engraved it. It is a Hermit 

 Thrush. If you scrutinize the figure in the original edition, 

 you will perceive that there was an attempt to display the rufus 

 tail of the Hermit, but that the pigment was obscured by the 

 underlying black engraved lines or by some other cause." 



