•562 Stejneger, Analecta Ornithologica. [October 



The North American species should stand thus : 

 181.* Spinus tristis (Linn.). 



182. Spinus psaltria (Say). 



182a. Sphzus psalti'ia arizonce (Coues). 

 1823. Spinus psaltria mexicanus (Swr.). 



183. Spinus laxvrencii {Qdi^^.^ . 



184. Sp/mts no^a^us (Duhus). 



185. Spinus pinus (Wils.). 



XIII . On the systematic name of the American 

 Hawk Owl. 



The aim of the present article is to show that the name SU'ix 

 funerea Lin. is untenable for the American Hawk Owl, belong- 

 ing properly to its continental European repi-esentative. Taking 

 Linnasus's loth edition (1768) of his 'Systema Naturalis' for our 

 nomenclatural starting point we find on p. 93 of that work (Vol. 



I); 



'■'■ Strix ficnerea. 



7. S. capita Itevi, corpore fiisco, iridibus flavis. F71. svec. 51 [ist ed. 

 1746]. 



Ulula flammeata Frisch. av. t. 98? Habitat in Europa." 



This quotation needs no further comment in order to point out 

 that the name belongs to the European bird and not to the Ameri- 

 can subspecies, and does not even include the latter. But not 

 even those authors starting from the 12th edition (1766) are jus- 

 tified in applying this term to the American bird. 



Two years after the publication of the loth edition, Mr. Brisson, 

 in his most admirable 'Ornithologia' (I, p. 51S, 1760) described 

 the latter as Strix caiiadensis. From his clear description Lin- 

 nseus at once perceived that Strix canadensis was conspecific 

 with \\v=, fttnerea. In the 12th edition, published six years. after 

 Brisson's work, the text was therefore altered accoi'dingly, and 

 reads thus : 

 ' ' Strix funerea . 



S. capite Isevi, corppre fusco, iridibus flavis. Fn. svec. 75 [2d ed. 1761]. 



Strix canadensis Briss. av. I, ^., 518, t. 2,1if- 2- 



Habitat i?i Europa et America septentrionali." 



That Linnaeus erroneously considered the American form abso- 

 lutely identical with the one he had originally described as 



* Ridgway's 'Nomenclature.' 



