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Show 434 APPENDIX. location of several American species, which tl'uly belong to the AnvwoLA, Cuv. or HYPUDlEUS of llliger. J X. Add, of American species, Hypudreus xant!tognatus, Leach;-Hyp. riparius? Ord. A subdivision of this group will embrace the Hyp. hispidus ( Sigmodon, Say), and Hyp. messor, L. C: and another subdivision, Hyp. jloddanus(Neotoma, Say), and Hyp. gossipinua, L .. c. XI. Here should come the new genus PsAMMOMYs, LeConte, described Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. of New York, III, 3, pl. 2, which differs from all the preceding in the form of the jaw teeth. The eyes are very small, and the ears scarcely visible. It burrows like the Sorex. But one species has yet been found-P. pinetorum, L. C.-which inhabits the pine forests of Georgia. Its hair is a dark shining cinereous colour, tipped above with brown, beneath a very pale ash; head large and blunt; tail round and hairy.( 1) XII. Cathartes auTa. (Turkey Buzzard.) Black, with a bluish gloss; neck feathered equally all round; head red, bill white. The other species Cathartcs iota, Vieill. which by out· author is arranged in the genus Percnopterus, undoubtedly belongs to the same genus with the C. aura. Its vulgar name is the Carrion Crow. Its colour ls black, neck more feathered above than beneath; head black; bill horn-colour. Both these species are common in the warm parts of our country: the first, however, ranges more to the no.rth than the other; it is sometimes seen at New York. They prey upon carrion and excrementitious matters, but never attack living animals except they perceive them helpless or unabl; to defend themselves. XIII. These citations, from F. pennsylvanicus, Wils. to F. kgemalis, Wils. ( 1) On examining the work of Uuppel1ate1y received at the A c. of Nat. Sc. of J'hilad., I find that he has anticipated l\fajor LeConte in the generic use of the word PSAM11l.OMYs. As the rule of priority should be inexorably adhered to in these cases, I would propose for the Amel'ican animal the generic appellation ofPITY· ltrs, or Pine-mouse. APPENDIX. 435 IV, xxxv, 1, are wrong·. Instead of them should be inserted F. pennsylvanicus, Wits. VI, pl. liv, f. 1 ;-F. velox (Slate-coloured Hawk), Wils. VI, pl. xlvi, f. 1;-F. dubius, Gm. These three birds are considered (Syn. Am. Birds of Ch. Bonap.) as the same, and as identical with the F.fusc'U8 of Gmel. XIV. Add M. Sayi, Bonap. Am. Or. I, pl. ii, f. 3;-M. fusca, Gm. Wils. Orn. II, pl. lxiii, f. 5 ;-M. acadica, Gm. Wils. II, pl. xiii, f. 3. ''I XV. . Here should come the genus VIREo, Vieill. (MusciOAPA, L., &c.). These have a bill like the Muscicapa, but it is shorter, not so much depressed, but rather compressed; bristly at base; upper mandible curved at the tip; tongue bifid at the tip. The colour of all the species is olive, more or less inclining to yellow. V. jlavifrons, Vieill. (Wils. II, pl. 7, f. 3, IYJ. sylvicola). Throat, breast, forehead, and circle round the eyes, yellow. V. solitarius, Vieill. (M. solitm·ia, Wils. II, pl. xvii, f. 6) .. Head, bluish; circle round the eyes white, breast pale ash, belly whtte. . V. noveboracensis't Vieill. ( M. noveboracen8is, Gm., M. cantatrzx, Wils. II, pl. xviii, f. 6). Spot at the base of the upper mandible, and circle round the eyes, yellow; eye-lids white. . . V. gilvus, Bonap. (Sylvia gilva, Vieill., M. melodw, ~Jls. V,. pl. xlii, f. 2). A line over the eyes, and body beneath, white; eyc-hds, brown. V. olivaceus, Vieill. (M. olivacea, L. Wils. II, pl. xii, f. 3). Cro~vn, cinereous, bounded on the sides with black; line over the eyes, white; eye-lids, rufous. XVI. The T. minor, Gm., is quoted in this note as a synonyme of the T. mustelin'U8, Wils., when in fact it is the solitarius, ':ils., V, ~· xliii, f. 2. The T. mustelinus, Gm., is the T. me/odes, W1ls. I,. P· u, f. 1. The T. mustelinus, Wils., is the T. ff7ilsonii, Bonap. 'VIIs. V, p. xliii, f. 3. |