Vol. XIX 



IQ02 



I Correspondetice. 4-10 



These extra plates are colored and were lithographed b_v Robert Ridgwa}', 

 one of the joint authors, and represent tiie following species ' : Tardus 

 mnstelinus, Turdus migratort'us, Galeoscoptes carolinensis, Sialia si'alt's, 

 Thryothortis ludovicianus niiamensis, Helminihophtiga Icticobroiichialis^ 

 Dendroica cEsiiva, Dendrot'ca ccertilea, Dendroica blackburnitE, Deiidroica 

 virens, Helmiuthophaga laturettcii, Pyranga rubra, Carpodacus rhodo- 

 colpus, Chrysomitris frisfis, Le.ucosticte atrata, Ammodromus nigrescens, 

 ZoHOirichia albicollis, Jnnco kycmalif, Afeloapiza inelodia^ Eiispiza ameri- 

 cana, Hedymeles ludovicianus, Cyanospiza cyanea, Cardinalis xnrginiantis^ 

 Dolichonyx oryzivortis. Icterus baltimore, Cyaniira crt'staia, Antrostomus 

 vociferus, Trockilus coliibris, Spkyropicus t/iyroideus, Melanerpes erythro- 

 cepkalus, Conurus carolitiensis, Scops asio Jloridanus, Glaucidium ferru- 

 gineiim, Speotyto Jloridanus, Falco rickardsont, Scardafella inca. 



While the existence of an edition of this work with these plates may be 

 known to many ornithologists, yet there is no printed record of such, as 

 far as the present writer is aware. No mention of these plates is made in 

 Coues's ' Bibliography,' nor in the several reviews of the ' Land Birds ' to 

 which I have had access. Dr. C. W. Richmond informs me that Mr. 

 Ridgway has never seen a copy of the work with these plates although he 

 has some loose plates in his possession. 



This work was published by Little, Brown, and Company, and from 

 their catalogue there seems to have been two editions — one with 64 

 plain plates, the other with 64 colored plates, "and 36 additional plates of 

 full-length figures beautifully colored by hand." There is still another 

 colored edition without the 36 additional plates. It is quite likely that 

 the original issue consisted of two editions, colored and plain, without 

 extra plates, the latter edition appearing some time later. 



William J. Fox. 

 The Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. 



In Re Meleagris sylvestris Vieillot. 



Editors of 'The Auk': 



Dear Sirs : — My attention has been called to a rather ill-natured attack 

 on Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, by Mr. J. A. Allen, which appears in your Journal 

 for July, 1902, p. 311. Will you allow me to inform the "unenlightened 

 American ornithologists " that Mr. Grant's citation of Meleagris silves- 

 tris, Vieill. is perfectly correct as Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IX, p. 447 (1817). 

 That it is spelled with an i instead of a j does not appear to me to be of 

 the slightest consequence. The reason that Mr. Allen and his friends 

 cannot find silvestris, but do find fera, is due, I suspect, to the fact that 

 they are not using the original edition of the IX Vol. (1S17) of the Nouv. 

 Diet. (ed. 3), but the Vol. IX which contains the reprinted leaf pp. 447, 



' The names are as they occur on the plates and are in sequence, as the 

 plates are not numbered. 



