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however unmeaning or cabalistical, would answer better for a 
trivial name than the degrees of comparison. It would be an 
act deserving the gratitude of the scientific to expunge such 
names from ornithological nomenclature, both systematic and 
vernacular. 
Turdus Roseus—Lin. Merle couleur de Rose—Buf.—Rose=- 
coloured Starling or Ouzel.—This is the male ofa beautiful but 
very rare visitant. Mr. Bewick rather confounds names a 
little when he calls this a starling or ouzel, though it be in some 
measure intermediate. Linneus ranks it as a Turdus; Pennant 
and Montagu call it an ouzel; Latham a thrush. With such 
authorities, the expedience of altering or multiplying names is 
not very apparent. 
Turdus Solitarius— Lin. (Gmel) Merle Solitaire — Buf. 
Brown Starline or Solitary Thrush.—We have another mis- 
uomer here in starling. Although it must be allowed to ap- 
proach near to the stare in some particulars, it is arranged in the’ 
Seem under the genus turdus; and Latham calls it a thrush. 
e would enter our protest against the use of equivocal or 
alternating English names. To indicate by a name that a bird 
is either a thrush or a starling, however closely those genera 
may be allied, is to confound identities. 
Turdus Viscivorus — Lin. Dratne — Buf. Missel Thrush, 
Missel Bird or Shrite.-—Our confidence in Mr. Bewick’s ge- 
neral accuracy makes us suspect that the specimen from which 
this cut was taken, must have been in a state of imperfect 
plumage, for we have seen male birds on which the spots on 
the breast were much larger and much more beautifully cloud- 
ed; The missel thrush is one of our earliest garden songsters, 
and we regret to learn that it begins to disappear from situations 
where it used to be well known. 
Oriolus Galbula—Lin. Loriot— Buf. Golden Thrush, or 
Golden Oriole of Latham, and Golden Thrush of Edwards.— 
This is not a native, and probably never visits us but when 
forced by stress ‘of weather. We object to the name of golden 
thrush, for the reasons already given, and prefer oriole of 
Linneus, Pennant, and Latham. Buffon, it is true, places 
it as a connecting link between the two, and Edwards terms 
it a thrush; but their authority, in general respectable, is 
here equivocal in itself, and is, besides, borne down by superior 
weicht. 
ringilla Cannabina — Lin. Grande Linotte des Vignes— 
Buf. Greater Red-pole, Greater Red-headed Linnet, or Brown 
Linnet.—Another instance of the impropriety alluded to of 
connecting specific distinction with relative bulk. Our own 
nomenclature, not that of Linnzus, is chargeable with it in the 
present case ; but the objection applies to any language. 
Linaria Montano. Linotte de Montagne—Buf. Mountain 
Linnet or Twite.—Is there any good reason for changing here 
the generic term Fringzlla to Linaria? There is already im the 
