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The \\'ilson Bulf-etix — No. fiS 



]f). Friiit/illa socialis, ISIO 

 Chipping; Sparrow 



11. FrinolUa palustris, 1811 

 Swamp Sparrow 



12. Muscicdpa vieloflia, 1812 

 Warbling Flycatcher 



l.*]. Muscicapa ayJvicoJa, 1808 



Yellow-throated Flycatcher 

 14. Muftclcapa cautatrix, 1810 



White-eyed Flycatcher 

 ITi. Sylvia maritima, 1812 



Cape May Warbler 

 in. Sylvia viinuta 1811 



Prairie Warbler 



17. Tiirdus aquaticus, 1811 

 Water Thrush 



18. Motacilla domestica, 1808 

 House AVreu 



Loggerhead Shrike. 

 := SpizcUa passcrina (Bechst.) 



Chipping Sparrow. 1798. 



= Melospiza yeoryiuua (Lath.) 



Swamp Sparrow. 1790. 



^Vireosylvia gilva (Veill.) 



Warbling Yireo. 1807. 



=1 Lanivireo flavifrous (Vieill.) 



Yellow-throated Yireo. 1807. 

 = Vireo f/risciis (Bodd.) 1783. 



White-eyed Yireo. 1788. 



=: Dendroica tigrina (Gmel.) 



Cape May Warbler. 1788. 



^= Dendroica discolor (Yieill.) 



Prairie Warbler. 1807 



= Seiitnis novehoracensis 



Water-Thrush. (Gmel.) 1788. 

 = Troglodytes aedon (Yieill.) 



House Wren. 1807 



One of Wilson's Scotch biof^raphers has attempted to prove 

 that he was well acqtiainted with the British ornis before 

 emigrating- to America. This cannot be so, or he would have 

 chfiferentiated some of the many species and subspecies he 

 pronounced identical with those of the Old World. America 

 produced no ornithologist until the time of John Cassin, who 

 was ecjually acquainted with the birds of both hemispheres ; 

 or in the restricted sense which might apply to Wilson were 

 his biographer correct, before the time of Bonaparte. Yet 

 had Wilson taken to heart the patriotic be.lief of Thomas 

 Jefiferson. im])arted to him in a letter of April 7, 1805, he 

 could not have gone so far wrong but that he would have in- 

 creased his own record for new species, or rather new names, 

 by one-half. Jefferson said: "T am of the opinion there is 

 not in our continent a single bird or quadruped which is not 

 stifficiently imlike all the members of its family there to be 

 considered as specifically dift'erent." Those figured and de- 

 scribed with the supposition that they were identical with the, 

 Old \\'orld species, equal in number the distinctively Amer- 

 ican species accredited to his name. 1'h'e references to Ku- 

 roy^ean writers are of course misa])plied. 



WILSON. A. O. r. CHKCK LIST. 



1. Stenia minuta Linn. 

 Lesser Tern 



=: Strma nntillarum (Less.) 

 Least Tern. 1847 



