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sure? Is it not more likely to be the Helminthophaga pinus, 
which is the ‘“ pine creeper ” of Catesby, and the Certhia pinus of 
Linnzus, since Bartram often quotes Catesby, even in his list, 
and many of his trinomials and English names are the same as 
those of Catesby, and evidently adopted from Catesby. 
11. “ Lucar Livipus, apice nigra, the cat bird or chicken 
bird ” = Lucar Carolinensis (Bartr.) Coues == Mimus Carolinen- 
sis auct. Dr. Coues, presuming “apice nigra” was intended to 
read “ vertice nigra,” which of courseis probable, adopts the name 
Lucar, though “ probably meaningless” and looking “like a mis- 
print,” for the generic name of the cat bird, as being coequal with 
Felivox of Bonaparte and Galeoscoptis of Cabanis, and as equiva- 
lent to Mimus in case the cat bird and mocking birds are to be 
placed in the same genus. 
12. “ MELEAGRIS AMERICANUS, the wild turkey ” — Melea- 
gris gallopavo, var. Americana (Bartr.) Coues. As it is fully de- 
scribed at pages 14 and 83, and binomially named on page 83 
as Meleagris occidentalis, this, if either of Bartram’s names is 
to be adoped, is the one which, according to the rule of priority, 
must be adopted, M. occidentalis having the precedence of 
over two hundred pages in Bartram’s work. Hence we have 
Meleagris gallopavo var. occidentalis (Bartr.)! The name occi- 
dentalis was evidently given in allusion to its being an inhabitant 
of the western world, as he compares it with the Meleagris (Nu- 
mida meleagris) of Africa. 
13. “ CARDUELUS PINUS, the lesser goldfinch” = Chrysomitris 
pinus (Bartr.) Bon. First described by Wilson under the 
same specific name, which name, as Dr. Coues observes, has been 
usually attributed to the latter author. Bartram’s right to pri- 
ority rests solely on the Latin and English names above given, 
which may be presumed to apply to Chrysomitris pinus auct. 
14. “ PASSER pomEsticus, the little house sparrow or chip- 
ping bird ” — Spizella domestica (Barir.) Coues = Spizella soci- 
alis auct. This is another of the lucky cases where the name 
alone seems to determine the species with probable certainty. 
15. “Passer PALUSTRIS, the reed sparrow ” = Melospiza pa- 
lustris (Bartr.) Bd. First described by Wilson under the same 
specific name, to whom the name has heretofore been attributed, 
but is now transferred by Dr. Coues to Bartram, because he pre- 
sumably used the name for a swamp sparrow, and because we 
chance to have but one! 
16. “ PASSER AGRESTIS, the little field sparrow” = Spizella 
