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and Latham, being also described meanwhile by Brisson (who, by the way, 

 was one of the very best ornithologists of the last century) as the "Figuier 

 cendr6 tachet^ de Pensilvanie", otherwise Ficedula pensilvanica oinerea ncevia. 

 This set of names, tberefoie, go and all hang together upon Edwards's plate. 



LinniBus again got hold or the Yellow-rump under me name and style of 

 " Figuier cendr6 de Canada ", Ficedula canadensis cinerea, originally described 

 by Brisson from a specimen or specimens sent by Gantier from Canada to 

 the E6aumur Museum. Brisson's description is very particular, as usual, 

 and his bird is also figured. This plate and description are the basis of Mo- 

 tadlla canadensis Linn., species n. 27, p. 334. It is necessary to specify this 

 page and number of Linnaeus, for he has on p. 336, n. 42, another Motadlla 

 canadensis, based on Ficedula canadensis dnerea minor of Brisson, iii. p. 527, pi. 

 27, f. 6; this last being altogether a different bird, namely, the Black- 

 throated Blue Warbler, Dendrceca canadensis or ccerulescens of modern authors.* 



Linnaeus, for the third time, brought up against the Yellow-rump in the 

 shape of Catesby's Parus uropygeo luteo, Angllcft, Yellow-rumped Titmouse, 

 figured on his plate 58 ; and this time he named it Parus virginianus, follow- 

 ing Brisson, who, in 1760, described it very fully under the same name in 

 Latin, and under the name of "M^sange de Virginie" in French. Brisson 

 quotes Catesby, and also Klein, — the latter under the name I have above 

 placed in quotation-marks, not having examined the book in this connection. 

 At Bufifon's hands, Catesby's bird became the Misange d. croupion jaune, a 

 translation of Catesby's name ; in Pennant's and Latham's works, it was ren- 

 dered as the Virginian Titmouse, a simple version of Brisson's uamr Gme- 

 lin simply kept up with the procession at this point, while poor Turton came 

 straggling after. A little later, Vieillot, in the Oiseaux de I'Am^rique Sep- 

 tentrionale, perceiving that the bird was no Parus, placed it in the genus 

 Sylvia; but, as if to pay himself for his sagacity, presumed to change the 

 Parus virginianus into Sylvia flavopygia, rendering " yellow rump" into such 

 wretched bastard Latin that his commentators have generally quoted it 

 xanthopygia. Vieillot himself seems to have become displeased with the 

 name he had bestowed, for he changed it to xanihorhoa in 1817, in the Nouv. 

 Diet., and to xanihoroa in the Encyclop^die M^thodique. This concludes 

 a third set of names, traceable to Catesby's "Yellow-rump"; but before I 

 have done with this part of the subject, I should account for the Yellow- 

 rumped Warbler of Pennant and Latham. For, as must be particularly 

 notid, the "Yellow-rump" of Pennant and Latham is a very diiferont 

 bird, to wit: the Yellotv-rumped Flycatcher of Edwards's pi. 255; the 



* Besides this double employ of Motacilla canadeTisis by Linnajus, Boddaert, in 17B3, used 

 the same term twice, in differeut connections, both different from Linn^eos's use of the 

 terms. On p. 4 of the Tableau, Boddaert names a Motacilla canadensis, basing it upon 

 PE. 58, f. 2, -which is Dendroeca cestiva. On p. 24 of the same work, Boddaert names another 

 MotaciUa canadensis, based primarily upon PB. 398, f. 2 (which is Siurus auricapiUris), with 

 some of the synonjms of Dendrceca added (M. eamadensis Linn., sp. n. 27, and Edw. Gl. 

 252), Boddaert having evidently confounded the Golden-crowned riyoatcher of Edwards 

 and the Golden-crowned "Warbler of Pennant and Latham with the Golden-crowned 

 Thrush of Edwards. Therefore :— 



MoUicilla canadensis Linn. (sp. 27) = Dendrceca coronata. 



Motacilla canadensis Linn. (sp. 42) = Dendrceca ccBrulescens. 



Motacilla canadensis Bodd. (p. 4 — PE. 58, f. 2) = Dendrceca cestiva. 



MotaciUa canadensis Bodd. (p. 24 — PE. 398, f. 2) = Siurus auricapiUus, mixed with some 

 synonyms of Dendrceca coronata. 



