<I>Toxostoma</I> v. <I>Harporhynchus</I>

Vol-

XIXl

_GeticralAzotes.

8q

1902 J ^{-^}

grass of the preceding year; this year's growth having just well

com-

menced."

The

eggs seem to ditferin appearance from any ofthesame genus that I haveseen,and

may

be thus described:

Creamy

wiiite, finelyspeckled allover the surfacewithi-eddishbrown, andalso

marked

with largerspots of the

same

color,

more

heavily at the larger ends. There are also a

number

ofspots of light lilac, which are not conspicuous.

They

meas- ure.57

X

^{-48; .65}

X

.46; .59

X

.47 ; -61

X

^.46.

The

nestissmall and looselyconstructed,being quite flat. It iscom- posed outwardly of a few leaves, a little

moss

and a good deal of fine grass, linedonly withthe lattermaterial.

The

nestwas situatedon the groundin andarched over with drygrass, andno bush ortwigs werenear.

The

eggs contained small embryos.

—

].

Pauker

Norris,Jr.. Philadelphia,Pa.

Connecticut

Warbler

and Philadelphia Vireo at Shelter Island,N. Y.

— On

Sept. 12,1901,Itookaspecimen oftheConnecticut Warbler{Geoth- lypis agilis)andonthe i8th another,and onthe

same

dayaspecimenof the PhiladelphiaVireo {VireoPhiladelphia); the first onetaken here in overtwentyyears' collecting,anda

new

record,Ibelieve foreastern

Long

Island. Thisbirdwasfeedingin a

young

growth of wildcherrytrees in an oldovergrown field in

company

with

some

Red-eyed and White-eyed Vireos

—

a sort of family gathering.

— ^{W. W.} Worthington,

Shelter Island Heights,N. Y.

Toxostoma

^z<s. Harporhynchus.

—

Toxostoma was first used byRafin- esque(Amer.

Monthly

Mag., IV,p. 107) in 1818, for agenusofshells.

The name

occursina

mere

^listof shells as "

TOXOSTOMA,

N.G. ⁱspecies,"

andis apure tiometi

nudum.

It remained in this state until Nov., 1831 (Enumeration and Accountof

Some Remarkable

Natural Objects ⁱⁿthe Cabinet of Professor Rafinesque in Philadelphia,p.2),

when

the species

was

described. Shortly beforethis, however (Isis,May, 1831, 52S),

Wag-

lerused thetermfora genusof birds(type^: Toxostoma vetulaWagler,

=

OrpheuscurvirostrisSwainson), andthereseems tobe novalidreason

why

Toxostoma should not replace Harporhynchus, the latter given in 1847 by Cabanis, on the supposition that Toxostoma was preoccupied.

Our

Thrashers shouldstand as follows; Toxostomarufa (Linn.), Toxos-

toma

longirostris sennctti (Ridgw.), Toxostoma curvirostris (Swains.), Toxostoma curvirostris

palmeri

(Coues), Toxostoma betidirei (Coues), Toxostoma cinerea (Xantus), Toxostoma cincrca mearnsi (Anthony), Toxostoma rediviva (Gamb.), Toxostoma rediviva pasadenensis (Grin- nell), Toxostomalecontei'L.awv., Toxostoma leconteiarenicola {Anthony), and ToxostomacrissalisHenry.

—

Chas.

W. Richmond,

Washington, D. C.

Hylemathrous

vs. Troglodytes forthe

House Wren. —

^{In '}

^The

^Birdsof

Massachusetts' (p.92) Mr. G. M.Allen and IusedHylemathrous for the