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1799. BARTON, B. S. Continued. 



Passage. Sect. II. Autumnal and "Winter Birds of Passage. Sect. Ill is an an- 

 notated List of the resident Birds of Pennsylvania, occupying two folios. Then 

 follow occasional or accidental residents, occasional visitants, and "Additions ". 

 The "Appendix", pp. 15-24, contains observations on the greater number of the 

 birds which are mentioned in the preceding tables. 



Barton was a strict binomialist ; his nomenclature, however, is very imperfect, 

 being modelled closely after Bartram ; his tract, in fact, furnishes a valuable 

 commentary on Bartram, and a quasi-concordance of the Bartramian nomencla- 

 .ture. Some new names are given to birds, in Secta I and II, as follows, though 

 mostly without proper description, if any : Fringilla domestica, p. 1, nodescr., 

 = Spizella socialis ; F. exilis,ip. I, no descr. (undetermined); F. pinus [Bartram], 

 p. 1, nodescr., = Chrysomitris pinus ; Certhia familiaris, p. 3 [necauct.], nodescr., 

 = Troglodytes aedon V., = Motacilla domestica Bartram ; Certhia floridana, p. 5, no 

 descr., == Thryothorus ludovicianus ; Strix diurnalis, p. 9, no descr., indet. ; these 

 being those which are marked " mihi"in the calendar, though some of them are 

 Bartram's, and though the calendar also includes some other names I never saw 

 elsewhere. None of these are described at all. In Sect. Ill, where the birds are 

 noted " in the order of the Linnsean arrangement ", and especially in the "Appen- 

 dix", we find a much better state of things; some new names occurring accom- 

 panied by sufficient description to entitle them to recognition, like Hirundo hor- 

 reorum for example, and many other species of Bartram's being here identified 

 and described under their Bartramian names. Whence it is obvious, that those 

 who fight shy of Bartram's names, for whatever reason, must take a number of 

 them on Barton's characterization. The following commentary will make the 

 point clear at which I aim : 



Page 11. 



" FALCO REGALIS of Bartram. Travels. Great Gray Eagle. This is our largest 

 Eagle." (Obviously = Haliaetus leucocephalus, juv.) 



"FALCO AQUiLiNUSof Bartram. Travels. Great Red-Tailed Hawk. This is 

 the largest species of Hawk hitherto discovered in Pennsylvania. The tail is of 

 a red brick color." (Now, those who refuse to accept the specific term aquilinus 

 from Bartram, 1791, may say BUTEO AQUILINUS (Barton, 1799) ! instead of 

 B. borealis Vieill.) 



" FALCO GLAUCUS of Bartram. Travels." (Bartram's description is repeated. 

 Now, those who decline to have anything to do with Bartram, on the ground of 

 his untenable nomenclature, will necessarily observe that ELANDS GLAUCUS 

 (Barton, 1799)! must replace E. leucurus Teinm.) 



" STRIX VARIUS of Bartram. MS." (The description clearly indicates that 

 this is a synonym of S. nebulosa Forster, 1772.) 



"LANIUS COLLURIO? Red-backed Shrike." (Apparently intended for the 

 young plumage of L. borealis. ) 



" CORVUS CORONK. Carrion Crow. (Crow) This is the Corvus frugivorus of 

 Bartram." (As I recently contended in Pr. PhUa. Acad., 1875, 346.) 



"CERTHIA FUSCA of Bartram. MS. Brown-Creeper." (Fully described. A 

 synonym of Certhia rufa Bartram, Trav., 1791, = C. familiaris auct.) 



Page 13. 



" PSITTACUS PERTINAX ? Illinois Parrot ? Either this or some other species of 

 the genus deserves to be mentioned among the birds of Pennsylvania." (Obvi- 

 ously referring to Conurus carolinensis.) 



Page 15. 



" MUSCICAPA FUSCA. This is the Muscicapa nunciola of Bartram. Travels." 



"ALAUDA RUBRA. The Alanda migratoria of Bartram. Travels. The Alauda 

 fusca of the same gentleman." 



" FRINGILLA DOMESTICA (mihi). Motacilla domestica, or Regulus rufus of Bar- 

 tram. Travels. In very mild winters, this sociable domestic little bird continues 

 with us. It is the earliest of our spring singing birds. Its note is tremulous 

 and agreeable. Catesby has figured it, Vol. i, P. 35." (This is very uncertain ; 

 Catesby's pi. 35 has been supposed to be Spizella pusitta, but never satisfactorily 

 identified, and Bartram's Motacilla domestica is the House Wren.) 



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