138 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
ZAMELODIA LUDOVICIANA (Linn.). 
Loxia rosea Wils., 2, 1810, p. 1385. 
M. C. Z. No. 67862, 67863. Wilson describes the adult male and 
female and a young male in the first spring plumage, citing three 
corresponding specimens in the Peale Museum, 5806, male; 5806 A, 
male one year old; 5807, female. This is the sole instance of his 
referring to more than two specimens of a kind in the Museum. 
_ The species is represented in the Boston Museum collection by two 
specimens, a female and a young male of the first spring in the 
plumage described by Wilson. The presence of the young male in 
this peculiar plumage makes it extremely probable that we have 
here two of the three Peale specimens. Both of the males described 
by Wilson were shot late in April a few miles from Philadelphia. 
As I am reading the proof of these pages, Mrs. L. C. Kimball 
sends to the Museum a few specimens from the Boston Museum 
collection which had been retained by the Kimball family. Among 
them is the missing Rose-breasted Grosbeak, — the adult male, 
mounted with the wings half spread, as in Wilson’s plate 17, figure 
2, substantiating the surmise ventured in the preceding paragraph. 
This specimen, now M. C. Z. No. 67864, may, I think, be accepted 
without doubt as the figured type of Loxza rosea Wils. 
PETROCHELIDON LUNIFRONS LUNIFRONS (Say). 
M. C. Z. No. 67865. Mounted to simulate a flying bird, like 
Bonaparte’s figure of “ Hirundo fulva Vieill.” (Amer. Orn., 1, 1825, 
pl. 7, fig. 1, Peale Mus. No. 7624), and probably the specimen drawn. 
According to Bonaparte the Cliff Swallow had not at that time ad- 
vanced further east than western New York, and it is possible that 
his drawing was made from oné of Say’s types from the Long Expedi- 
tion, which were in the Peale Museum. 
VIREOSYLVA GILVA GILVA (Vieill.). 
Muscicapa melodia Wils., 5, 1812, p. 36, pl. 42, fig. 2. 
M. C. Z. No. 67866. Posed as in the act of singing, with open bill 
and swelling throat, like Wilson’s figure, but with the tail more de- 
pressed. A probable type. 
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