362 Trotter, English Names of American Birds. [oct* 



Gleanings (Vol. V, 57): "J. Petiver, in his Gazophylacium, 

 plate vi, has given the figure of a bird, which I believe to be the 

 same with this; for which reason I continue the name he has given 

 it. . . .'Avis Marylandica gutture luteo, the Maryland Yellow- 

 throat. This the Rev. Mr. H. Jones sent me from Maryland'." 

 Edwards later received the bird from Bartram with a drawing 

 "very neatly and exactly done, by Mr. William Bartram, of Pen- 

 sylvania, who hath enabled me to give a further account of this 

 bird, for he says, it frequents thickets and low bushes by runs 

 (of water, I suppose, he means) and low grounds; it leaves Pen- 

 sylvania at the approach of winter, and is supposed to go to a warm?r 

 climate." 



To Wilson we owe the place-names of five of our species of 

 Warblers — the Kentucky, Connecticut, Tennessee, Nashville, 

 and Cape May — from the State or locality of the first capture by 

 him of the species in question. John Cassin named a species of 

 Vireo "Philadelphia" after the city in the neighborhood of which 

 he obtained his type specimen. 



Thryothorus ludoviciamis obtained its vernacular through 

 Bartram — " (regulus magnus) the great wren of Carolina" 

 (Travels, 291). This Wilson transposed into "Great Carolina 

 Wren." 



The "Blackburnian Warbler" is so called by Pennant and 

 Latham, and is evidently named in honor of the owner of the 

 Blackburn Museum in London. 



A number of our birds acquired their names in the first half of 

 the last century in honor of certain persons known to their de- 

 scribers — as Lincoln's, Henslow's, LeConte's, and Harris's 

 Sparrows; Townsend's, Audubon's, Swainson's, and Bachman's 

 Warblers; Lewis's Woodpecker; Clark's Nutcracker; Steller's 

 and Woodhouses's Jays, and many others of early and recent date. 



"Louisiana" as applied to the species of Tanager (Piranga 

 ludovieiana) and to the Water- Thrush (Seiurus viotaciUa) refers 

 to the region embraced in the Louisiana Purchase, not to the 

 present State of that name. "Florida," "Canada," "California," 

 "Hudsonian" and other regional names have in like manner been 

 applied to certain species, as "Florida Jay," "Canada Jay," 

 "Canadian Warbler," "California Woodpecker," "Hudsonian 

 Chickadee," and so forth. 



