tification of Latham’s description, but rather to a lapsus of the /(,£> 
pen, for under the ‘Black Oriole’ Latham quotes PI. Enlum. 534, 
the same figure which Boddaert a few pages earlier (p. 31, see 
above) named Oriolus niger , while again Latham quotes PI. 
Enl. 606, f. 1. under the ‘Lesser Black Oriole,’ the bird in ques- 
tion, to which Boddaert, therefore, most probably intended to 
refer. 
That ‘ Oriolus ater ’ lacks the appendix mi hi is totally insignifi- 
cant. A few examples, picked up at random, are sufficient to 
show that: Hirundo albiventer (pi. enl. 564. 2, Bodd. p. 32), 
Muscicapa fusca (574, 1, p. 34), Muscicapa eques (831, 1, p. 
51), Tringa miles (835, p. 51), Formicarius cayanensis (821, 
p. 50), Motacilla naevia (752, 1, p. 47)5 Motacilla eques (730, 
p. 46), Tanagra nigricula et T. pileata (720, 1 and 2, p. 45)? 
Tanagra grisea (714, 1, p. 45), Tanagra rufa (7x1, p. 45), 
Parus cinctus (708, p. 44), etc. The ‘last seven are particularly 
interesting as compared with the name given to the bird on plate 
7x2. The latter is based upon- exactly the same authorities and in 
precisely the same manner as the above, to which ‘ mihi ’ is not 
appended, and still the species figured on pi. 712 is called 
“Alauda capensis mihi* 
Somebody might perhaps object, that ‘ Oriolus ater ’ belongs as 
a quotation to ‘black oriole’ (see Boddaert’s text as quoted above) 
because only separated from it by a comma. In reply I shall only 
refer to Bodd., p. 44, and the following quotation to prove that 
the comma is of no account : 
“704. 2. Figuier Protonotaire, Buff. IX. p. 465. Briss. Ornith. III. o. 
Motacilla citrea, Linn. Gen. 114. o.” 
On the same page are two examples, 701, 2, and 706, 1. 
There is, therefore, in my mind no doubt but what Dr. Coues 
was perfectly justified in proposing the change from Molothrus 
pecoris to Molothorus ater for the American Cowbird. 
* Numerous similar examples might be quoted, as pi. 700. 1 and 2, compared with 
701, 2, 702, 703, 1 and 2; 706. 1 compared with the same pi. fig. 2, all these on p. 44. In 
many of these cases the absence of 'mihi' is very notable, as both the generic and the 
specific names were new and given by Boddaert., 
Auk, 2, Jan. , 1886. p. * 
