1 68 Stejxeger on Avalecfa Ornithologica. [April 



Alauda Pe7isilvanica''' ; and in a footnote he thus exphiins the 

 appearance of this species in a list of British Birds : "Now and 

 then met with in the neighbourhood of London;* but moi'e com- 

 mon in America.'" 



It was in 1788 that GmeHn (Syst. Nat., I, p. 173) first applied 

 the name Alauda htdoviciana to the 'Farlouzanne' of Buffbn, 

 while he, on the following page, bestowed Alattda rubra upon 

 the 'Red Lark,' the bird of Edwards's plate. Gmelin knew 

 nothing whatever of these birds, aside from the descriptions 

 quoted above, and his diagnoses are wholly made up from them. 

 These early synonyms may be cited as follows : — 

 Alauda J>e}tsilvajnca, Edw. Glean, pi. 297. 



L'ahiette de Pensylva7iie, Briss. Orn. VI, App. p. 94, No. 13. 

 Red Lark, Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 140. 

 Alouette auxjoues briines de Pensilvanie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



V, p. 58. 

 La Farlouzatme, Buff, ibid, p. 38. 

 Red Lark, Penn. Arct. Zool. II, p. 393. No. 279. 

 Louisiane Lark, Lath. Syn. II, 2. p. 376, No. 7. 

 Red Lark, Lath. ibid. p. 376, No. 8. 

 1787. — Red Lark, Alauda pensilva7iica Lath. Synops. Suppl. I, p. 287. 

 1788. — Alauda ludoviciana Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 2, p. 793. 

 1788. — Alauda rubra Gmel. ibid., p. 794. 



1847. — Afithus pensyl-vanicus, Thienemann, Rhea, II, (p. 171). 

 The American Titlark will therefore stand as 



Anthus pensilvanicus (Lath.) Thienem. 



III. A BRIEF Review of the Synonymy of the Genus 

 Compsothlypis (= Parula). 



Genus Compsothlypisf Cab. 



1826. — Chloris BoiE, Isis, 1826. p. 972. (Type Sylvia americana Lath.). 

 {^Nec Moehring, 1752 ; nee Schwartz qucE Gramin. ; nee 

 Cuvier, 1799, qiicB Liguriniis Koch.) 



* Instances of its capture in Europe of later years are not very frequent. See Dal- 

 gleish, Bull Nutt. Orn. CI., 1880, p. 69. 



t From Gr. KOjuj/o's and OXvirCs- Kop|/os = cared for, adorned, elegant, from 

 KOfxe'cd, I take care of ^cfr. L. comptus and coiuo), and kindred with ko|xt] (L. coma), the 

 hair considered as an ornament for the head. ©Xviris, a name of a bird said to be 

 found in some codices of Aristoteles (VIII, 5. 4) where others liave flpavirls, or 

 GpainS; a thistle-eating bird, not determinable (from Opavco, 1 break, with which is 

 kindred 0\a«, of the same signification, and OX^Pw, I rub. ©povirCs, Opairfe^ OXairfe, 

 OXvirCs ■^) • — Com-pso-thly'-pis. 



