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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 3143576" data-attributes="member: 31036">Vieillot's intention: According to the editors of a 1902 note in the Ibis  Vieillot's intention was to make the type of his new genus M. troglodytes.  But since the book was Oiseaux de la Amerique Septentrionale he only mentioned American birds. Looking at his list of genera in Analyse he lists Buffons wren = M. troglodytes first and T. aedon second.  <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=U7pHAQAAIAAJ&dq=Motacilla+troglodytes&source=gbs_navlinks_s" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=U7pHAQAAIAAJ&dq=Motacilla+troglodytes&source=gbs_navlinks_s</a> .Page 527.  Vieillot in his description of arundinaceus refers to a specimen in his collection.  A real bird.</blockquote>