Burns — On Alexander Wilson. 33 



had renamed the Piping- Plover (.E. incloda) . The Zenaida 

 Dove [Zoiaida .■:ciiaida) aud Limpkin {Aramns gigantusy 

 had heen described by him soon after Peale, his collector, re- 

 turned from Florida. Professor Trotter - suggested that the 

 Zenaida Dove was so named in honor of the author's wife, Zen- 

 aide Charlotte Julie, daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-king- 

 of Spain. Peale's Egret (Dichroiitaiiassa pcalci), taken by T. R. 

 Peale in Florida: and the Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalma hinian- 

 fopus), which he had taken himself -while in company with 

 William Cooper, at Long Branch, New Jersey, July, 1826 ; 

 were described in a paper read November 26 of that year, in 

 New York.'^ The Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus 

 xaiithoccpJialns) had been described elsewhere, but the want 

 of an original name was not discovered until shortly before 

 this time.* The Sage Grouse (Ccntroccrcus urophasianns) 

 described the year previous ^ through the courtesy of Mr. 

 Leadbeater from the only known preserved spechnen ; had been 

 found in great abundance ])y the Lewis and Clark expedition. 



The Burrowing Owl [Spcoiyto cnnlciilaria hypogcca) had 

 been found in the West by the Long expedition, but Say con- 

 sidered it and the South American and West Indian of Molina 

 and Vieillot, inseparable ; Bonaparte, however, threw an an- 

 chor to windward, in the shape of a footnote : " Should they 

 prove to be different species, new appellations must be given: 

 and, as that of Stri.v cunicidavia will, by right of priority, be 

 exclusively retained by the Coquimbo Owl, we would propose 

 for the present bird the name of Strix hypogcca." 



Two species only were perfectly new to science, the Cooper's 

 Hawk (Accipitcr coo peri) taken presumably by the author, in 



'Additions to tlie Oniitliolog.y of tlie United States, Ihid, pp. 

 30-31. 



-Cassiuia, IX, 3005. p. 4. 



^Further Additions to tlic <)niitliolos;y of tlie TTnited 'States; and 

 Observations on tlie Nomenclature of Certain Species, Annals L.vc. 

 Nat. Hist., Now York, 11. 182S, pp. 154 and 157. 



■* On llie distinctions of two species of Icterus, liitlierto confound- 

 ed under the sjiecific name of I<-turoceplialns. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., V, 1825, p. 223. 



''Zoological Journal, III, 1827, p. 213. 



