<I>Tiaris</I> instead of <I>Euetheia</I>

]

(general Notcf. o'J

Vol.

XIX

igo2

of-the-year' of thissamespeciessliowing every indication ^ofamalebird, andliewas flyingtowards that part ofthepark wherethe superintendent claimsthattheyhave been ^{breeding for} two orthree years.

None

have beenseenhere'afterthe generalmigrationofthebirdsfromthis section.

In answerto

my

letterof Oct. 2,Mr.

Ridgway

stated thathe regretted thatthe note could not be

made

useof in his

new

work. Later ^Ireceived another ^letterfrom

him

in which he ^{states: "It}being

now

^{too late to}

utilizeyournote concerningthe Cardinal,^I

would

suggest that

you

send

ittoDr. Allen forpublication in

'The

Auk'."

As

supplementarytothe above note, permit

me

to state that a gentle-

man

herebythe

name

ofDr. Rich,

who

is

making

something of a study ofornithology, reported^to

me

thathe hadforthefirsttimeseen theCar- dinal,adultmale andfemale together,

some

ten daysagowithin about^half amileofwhere Isawthebirds asabove^stated.

To me

this^isvery^interest- ing andparticularlythe information receivedfromsoaccurate an observer as the superintendent^ofthe park, that these^birds had been breeding

m

the park,andacross the Sioux RiverⁱⁿDakota,within the pasttwoyears.

The

superintendent has ^{lived in}the park forabout twelve years, and it isonly duringthe past twoor three years that he has observed

them.- D.H. ^Talbot,

^Sioux City, loiva.

Tiarisinstead ofEuetheia.

—

According to the strict law of priority Tiarts will havetotake the place of Euetheia. Swainsonexpectedhis diagnosis ofthegenus Tiaris (Zool. Journ.,^Ill, Dec. 1S27, 354), to pre- cedehis description of Tiaris fusillus(Philos. Mag.,n.s., I, June, 1827, 43S),but

owing

todelayed publication^ofthe^'Zoological Journal'

article the descriptionof T. fusilluswas first to appear, and hence constitutes the typeofthe genus. Tiariswilltherefore applyto the genus

we now know

as Euetheia, and our ^{species will stand as Tiaris bicolor} and

Tiaris canora.

—

Chas.

W. Richmond,

Washington, D. C.

An

Addition to the Avifauna of the United States.—

The

resident White-eyed Vireo of the Rio

Grande

Valley, Texas, proves to be the F/Veo«^fe/'o;'«ce«5/5 ^»«V;'«.fNelson, described ^{in '}

The

Auk,' Vol.

XVI,

No. I.January, 1899, ^{p. 30.} from ^{Victoria, in the State of} Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mr. Nelson^agreeswith

me

thatthe resident

Texan

bird is the Tamaulipan form

-

micrus. Itscharactersare: " Similarto V.novebora- censis,but smaller and duller colored, with a paler

wash

of yellow

on

flanks.

Wing,

58; tail, 50; culmen, 10; tarsus, 20." Its breeding, range, inTexas,extendsfrom

Kinney

and Uvalde Counties to the Gulf ofMexico.

Of

^thirteen

Texan

specimensin the United States National

Museum

^{series,eight have the}

^wing

^{shorter than that of the type of} micrus; ^theremaining ^fivehavingthe

wing

equalto or longer than in the type of micrus.

Although some Texan

^{specimens (migrants) are}

referable to the northern form, ^{all are} smaller than the average typical bird of

New

York.

— Edgar

A.

Mearns,

Fort

Adams,

Ne-vport,R.^I.