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1799. Barton, B. S.— Continued. 



Passage. Sect. II. Aatamnal and "Winter Birds of Passage. Sect. Ill is an an- 

 notated List of the resident Birds of Pennsylvania, occupying two folios. Then 

 follow occasional or accidental residents, occasional visitants, and "Additions "■ 

 The "Appendix", pp. 15-24, contains observations on the greater number of the 

 birds which are mentioned in the preceding tables. 



Barton was a strict binomialist ; his nomenclature, however, is very imperfect, 

 being modelled closely after Bartram ; his tract, in fact, furnishes a valuable 

 commentary on Bartram, and a quasi-concordance of the Bartramian nomencla- 

 ture. Some new names are given to birds, in Sects. I and II, as follows, though 

 mostly without proper description, if any •.— Fringilla domestica, p. 3, nodescr., 

 = Spizella socialis ; J?". ea;iii«,p. l,no descr. (undetermined); F. pimts [Bartram], 

 p. 1, nodescr.,^ Ohrysomitrispinus ; Cer(Aia/aniiZiarw, p. 3[necauct.],nodescr., 

 = Troglodytes aedon V., = Motadlla riomes(ica Bartram ; OerthiafloridaTia, p. 5, no 

 Ae8CT., = Thryofhorus ludovicianita ; StrixdMirnaUs,'p. 9, nodescr., indet. ; these 

 being those which are marked " mihi "in the calendar, though some of them are 

 Bartram's, and though the calendar also inclndes some other names I never saw 

 elsewhere. Nooe of these are described at all. In Sect. Ill, where the birds are 

 noted "in the order of the LinnBeanarrangement", and especially in the "Appen- 

 dix", we find a much better state of things; some new names occurring accom- 

 panied by sufBcient description to entitle them to recognition, like Hirundo hor- 

 reoruin for example, and many other species of Bartram's being here identified 

 and described under their Bartramian names. "Whence it is obvious, thatthose 

 who fight shy of Bartram's names, for whatever reason, must take a number of 

 them on BarU>n's characterization. The following commentary will make the 

 point clear at which I aim : — 



Page 11. 



"Falco BEGALisof Bartram. Travels. Great Gray Eagle. This is our largest 

 Eagle." (Obviously = Haliaetus leucocephalus, juv.) 



"Falco aqutlinus of Bartram. Travels. Great Eed-Tailed Hawk. This is 

 the largest species of Hawk hitherto discovered in Pennsylvania. The tail is of 

 a red brick color." (Now, those who refase to accept the specific term aquUimis 

 from Bartram, 1791, may say BUTEO AQTJILINUS (Baiton, 1799)! instead of 

 B. horealis Vieill.) 



*' Falco glaucus of Bartram. Travels" (Bartram's description is repeated. 

 Now, those who dechne to have anything to do with Bartram, on the ground of 

 his untenable nomenclature, will necessarily observe that ELANUS GLAUCUS 

 (Barton, 1799)! must replace .B. leitcurus Temm.) 



" Stbix varius of Bartram. MS." (The description clearly indicates that 

 this is a synonym of S. nebulosa Forster, 1772.) 



*' Lanius collurio ? Eed-backed Shrike." (Apparently intended for the 

 young plumage of L. borealis. ) 



" CoRVus CORONE. Carrion Crow. (Crow ) This is the Corvus frugivorus of 

 Bartram." (As I recently contended in Pi: PhUa. Acad., 1875, 346.) 



"Certhia fusca of Bartram. MS. Brown-Creeper." (Fally described. A 

 synonym of Oerthiarufa Bartram, Trav., 1791, = C.familiaris auct.) 



Page 13. 



"PsiTTACUS pertinax) HUnois Parrot? Either this or some other species of 

 the genus deserves to be mentioned among the birds of Pennsylvania." {Obvi- 

 ously referring 'to Oonunts caroUnensis.) 



Page 15. 



*'MU8CICAPA FUSCA. Thisls the Muscicapa nunciola of Bartaam. Travels." 



"Alauda rubra. The Alauda migratoria of Bartram. Travels. The Alauda 

 fusca of the same gentleman." 



" Fringilla D0ME8TICA (mihi). Motacilla domestica, or Eegulus rufus of Bar- 

 tram. Travels. In very mild winters, this sociable domestic little bird continues 

 with us. It is the earliest of our spring singing birds. Its note is tremulous 

 and agreeable. Catesby has figured it, Vol. i, P. 35." (This is very uncertain j 

 Catesby's pi. 35 has been supposed to be Spizella pusilla, but never satisfactorily 

 identified, and Bartram's Motacilla domestica is the House Wren.) 



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