136 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
BUBO VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Gmel.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67852. Very probably the bird drawn by Wilson, 6, 
1812, pl. 50, fig. 1. 
CONUROPSIS CAROLINENSIS (Linn.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67853. Original of Wilson’s figure, 3, 1811, pl. 26, fig. 1. 
ASYNDESMUS LEWIsI Riley. 
Picus torquatus Wils., 3, 1811, p. 31, pl. 20, fig. 3. Nomen praeoccupatum. 
M. C. Z. No. 67854. <A single venerable looking specimen, proba- 
bly either the type, which was No. 2020 of the Peale Museum (Lewis 
and Clark Expedition), or else one of the two individuals shot by 
T. R. Peale near the Rocky Mountains, on the Long Expedition, 
I presume (see Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 3, 1824, p. 
370). 
CHORDEILES VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Gmel.). 
Caprimulgus americanus Wils., 5, 1812, p. 65, pl. 40, fig. 1. Nomen praeoccu- 
patum. : 
M. C. Z. No. 67855. Without doubt Wilson’s figured type, male, 
mounted in the attitude of “booming,” like the figure. When I first 
saw this specimen, after it had reached the Boston Society of Natural. 
History rooms, the open mouth was lined with pinkish sealing-wax, 
just the colour of this part in Wilson’s plate. Wilson probably copied 
the colour of the wax instead of the inside of a living bird’s mouth. 
OTOCORYS ALPESTRIS ALPESTRIS (Linn.). 
Alauda alpestris Linn., Wils., 1, 1808, p. 85, pl. 5, fig. 4. 
Alauda cornuta Wils., 1, 1808, p. 87. 
M. C. Z. No. 67856. Perhaps the original of Wilson’s figure. 
