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and Latham, being also described meanwhile by Brisson (who, by the way, 

 was one of the very best ornithologists of the last century) as the " Figuier 

 cendre" tachete" de Pensilvanie", otherwise Ficedula pensilvanica cinerea ncevia. 

 This set of names, therefore, go and all hang together upon Edwards's plate. 



Linnaeus again got hold oi the Yellow-rump under tne name and style of 

 " Figuier ceudre* de Canada ", Ficedula canadensis cinerea, originally described 

 by Brisson from a specimen or specimens sent by Gautier from Canada to 

 the Rdaumur Museum. Brisson's description is very particular, as usual, 

 and his bird is also figured. This plate and description are the basis of Mo- 

 tatilla canadensis Linn., species n. 27, p. 334. It is necessary to specify this 

 page and number of LinnaBus, for he has on p. 336, n. 42, another Motacilla 

 canadensis, based on Ficedula canadensis cinerea minor of Brisson, iii. p. 527, pi. 

 27, f. C; this last being altogether a different bird, namely, the Black- 

 throated Blue Warbler, Dendrceca canadensis or ccerulescens of modern authors.* 



Linnaeus, for the third time, brought up against the Yellow-rump in tho 

 shape of Catesby's Parus uropygeo luteo, Anglice, Yellow-rumped Titmouse, 

 figured on his plate 58; and this time he named it Parus virginianus, follow- 

 ing Brisson, who, in 1760, described it very fully under the same name in 

 Latin, and under the name of "M6sange de Virginia" in French. Brisson 

 quotes Catesby, and also Klein, the latter under the name I have above 

 placed in quotation-marks, not having examined tho book in this connection. 

 At Buffon's hands, Catesby's bird became the Me'sange a croapion jaune, a 

 translation of Catesby's name ; in Pennant's and Latham's works, it was ren- 

 dered as the Virginian Titmouse, a simple version of Brisson's narnr Gme- 

 lin simply kept up with the procession at this point, while poor Turton came 

 straggling after. A little later, Vieillot, in the Oiseaux de l'Aine"rique Sep- 

 tentrionale, perceiving that the bird was no Parus, placed it in the genus 

 Sylvia; but, as if to pay himself for his sagacity, presumed to change the 

 Parus virginianus into Sylvia Jlavopygia, rendering "yellow lump" into such 

 wretched bastard Latin that his commentators have generally quoted it 

 xanthopygia. Vieillot himself seems to have become displeased with the 

 name he had bestowed, for he changed it to xanthorhoa in 1817, in the Nouv. 

 Diet., and to xanthoroa in the Encyclopedic Me"thodique. This concludes 

 a third set of names, traceable to Catesby's "Yellow-rump"; but before I 

 have done with this part of tho subject, I should account for the Yellow- 

 rumped Warbler of Pennant and Latham. For, as must be particularly 

 notid, the "Yellow-rump" of Pennant and Latham is a very different 

 bird, to wit: the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher of Edwards's pi. 255; the 



* Besides this double employ of Motacilla canadensis by Linnaeus, Boddaert, in 1783, used 

 the same term twice, in different connections, both different from Linnaeus's use of the 

 terms. On p. 4 of the Tableau, Boddaert names a Motacilla canadensis, basing it upon 

 PE. 58, f. 2, which is Dendroeca, cestiva. On p. 24 of the same work, Boddaert names another 

 Motacilla canadensis, based primarily upon PE. 398, f. 2 (which is Siurus auricapillus), with 

 some of the synonyms of Dendroeca added (M. canadensis Linn., sp. n. 27, and Edw. Gl. 

 252), Boddaert having evidently confounded the Golden-crowned Flycatcher of Edwards 

 and the Golden-crowned "Warbler of Pennant and Latham with the Golden-crowned 

 Thrush of Edwards. Therefore : 



Motacilla canadensis Linn. (sp. 27) = Dendroeca coronata. 



Motacilla canadensis Linn. (sp. 42) = Dendroeca ccerulescens. 



Motacilla canadensis Bodd. (p. 4 PE. 58, f. 2) = Dendroeca cestiva. 



Motacilla canadensis Bodd. (p. 24 PE. 398, f. 2) = Siurus auricapittus, mixed with some 

 synonyms of Dendroeca coronata. 



