BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Vol. III. JANUARY, 1878. No. 1. 
NOTE ON PASSERCULUS BAIRDI AND P. PRINGEPS . 
By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. 
The Nuttall Ornithological Club gratefully acknowledges the 
liberality of Messrs. T. Sinclair and Son, the well-known lithog- 
raphers, of Philadelphia, through which the opening number of 
the third volume of the Bulletin is illustrated with a fine colored 
plate of Baird’s Bunting. The figure was drawn under my direc- 
tion by Mr. Edwin L. Sheppard of Philadelphia, and represents the 
adult male as I have often observed it singing during the breeding 
season. The plate was engraved and printed in colors by the 
Messrs. Sinclair, in the interests of science, and the whole edition 
was generously presented by them to the Club. 
No full-length colored figure of this species has hitherto been 
published since Audubon’s original, which was taken from a speci- 
men in worn plumage, as the type now preserved in the Smith- 
sonian attests, and is far less characteristic than the Sinclair plate. 
The colored head in Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway, as well as the 
wood-cuts on page 531 of their work below cited, were all from that 
same specimen. In fact, no second specimen was known until 
1872, when Mr. C. E. Aiken took, in El Paso County, Colorado, a 
young bird, which was soon after described as a new species, Cen- 
tronyx ochrocephalus. The following year he obtained another; 
and during the summer of that year great numbers were taken in 
Dakota by Mr. J. A. Allen and myself, and also in Arizona by Mr. 
H. W. Henshaw. Since that time the species has been well known 
and illustrated by an abundance of specimens. 
