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Species ixj}nch have bred. 
but the best known birds which 1)o>.'m;,ss old cstabHshed names. As it is, any- 
one who gets a foreign bird of which he does not know the name, gives il 
one at once. As this has been going on for centuries, it is no wonder that 
the names are niuUitudinous and confusing to the last degree. With these 
constantly increasing new additions one cannot hope to keep pace. 
Putting aside, too, all question of permanence, how much more con- 
venient the Latin names are, once the difficulty of remembering them s 
overcome. For my particular purpose of this record their use would sim- 
phfy it wonderfully. [E. HopkinsonO. 
4.— BLACK-TAILED HAWFINCH. Chinese Hawfinch, Chinese Grosbeak, 
Grey-necked Grosbeak. 
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9. — BLUE GROSBEAK. The really correct name for this bird is BLUE 
GROSBEAK. Other names in occasional use, especially by dealers 
are : Blue Bishop, Blue Bullfinch. 
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10. — WHITE-TH ROATED FINCH. White-throated Seed-eater, Seed-eater. 
Seed-finch are common alternative names for all the members of this 
genus, now Sporophila, but much better known under the former 
name Spermophila. In their native countries they are known as " Grass- 
quits." Old dealers' names were " Patativas " or " Pettykevers." 
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15.— BLACK SEED-FINCH. Cuban Bullfinch, Black Bullfinch, Little Black 
Bullfinch, Black Grosbeak, Black Bishop. 
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17. — LITTLE FINCH. Least Grass-quit, Mexican Grass-quit. 
18. — CUBA FINCH. ^Melodious Finch, Melodious Grass-quit. 
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16.— OLIVE CUBA FINCH. Olive Finch, Yellow-faced Grass-quit. 
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20. — JACARINI FINCH. GIossv Finch, Mexican Glossy Finch. 
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21. — RED CARDINAL. Virginian Cardinal, Virginian Red-bird, Virginian 
Nightingale, Cardinal Grosbeak, Red Bird, Winter Red Bird, popula"- 
names in America. 
26.— HIMALAYAN GOLDFINCH. Eastern Goldfinch, Asiatic Goldfinch 
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29. — RED SISKIN. Hooded Siskin, " Cardenal de Caracas " in the Canarv 
Islands. 
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30. — SIKHIM SISKIN. Tibetan Siskin. 
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32. — AMERICAN SISKIN. American Goldfinch (in America all Si.'ikins are 
commonly called Goldfinches). Yellow Bird, Thistle Bird, Goldfinch are 
N. American popular names. 
