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foot-note on p. 47, that he distinctly names E. americana as the type of the 
genus (“Reconoscemmo inoltre, che quest? uccello | #. melanocephala] é il 
perfetto analogo della Pringilla americana TIPO DI QUEL SOTTOGENRE”). 
Four years later, however, Bonaparte proposed the name Huspiza for 
the same type (“‘Saggio,” p. 141), but according to recognized rules this 
later name becomes simply a synonym of Spiza, as does also Cabanis’s 
name Huspina, the latter substitued for EHuspiza (Mus. Hein., I, p. 133), 
under the misapprehension that the type of the latter was the Hm- 
beriza melanocephala of Scopoli (see M. H., p. 130)—a species not only 
generically distinct from EH. americana, Gmel., but moreover hardly a 
member of the same subfamily. 
201. Phonipara ZENA (Linn.) Bryant.—“Tringilla bicolor,” Linn., 8. N., 
ed. 12 (1766)=/F. zena, Linn., 8. N., ed. 10 (1758). 
206. Pipilo fuscus MESOLEUCUS (Baird) B. B. & R.—The Arizona - 
form of this species is very easily distinguishable from the true /uscus 
of Mexico, the latter being without the rufous cap of mesoleucus, the 
colors in general darker, ete. 
212b. Ageleus TRICOLOR (Nutt.) Bp.—Totally distinct from A. pheni- 
ceus. 
233. Pica RUSTICA 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 sufficient 
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., III, 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 obscurus 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. I, 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 
