VOL. XVII, PP. 165-168 DECEMBER 27, 1904 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



GENERAL NOTES. 



GYROSTACHYS SIMPLEX IN VIRGINIA. 



Many years ago I found a large number of plants of this orchid near Fort 

 Myer, Alexandria County, but the station has long been destroyed. On 

 September 28, 1904, 1 found three plants in a pine wood in Fairfax County 

 above the Great Falls. The above seems to be the first record of this small 

 species for the State and the most southern. William Palmer. 



ZOSTEROPS FLAVISSIMA McGREGOR, PREOCCUPIED. 



Dr. C. AV. Richmond writes me that the above name employed by me 

 for the silver-eye of Cagayancillo Island, P. I., (Bulletin Philippine Museum, 

 No. 4) is preoccupied. Hartert used the same name for a species from Bi- 

 nongka Id., Tukang-Besi group, southeast of Celebes (Novitates Zoologicse, 

 X, April 20, 1903, p. 29). As the Philippine bird requires a new name, it 

 maybe called Zosterops richmondi. Richard C. McGregor, Manila, P. I. 



A CORRECTION OF BARROWS' RECORD OF COCCYZUS PUMI- 

 LUS FROM CONCEPCION DEL URUGUAY. 



In the Auk for 1884 (Vol. I, p. 28) W. B. Barrows notes the capture of 

 three cuckoos at Concepcion del Uruguay, one on December 11, one on 

 December 30, and the third on January 22, 1880. The first two he refers 

 to Coccyzus pumilus Strickland (No. 117 of his list) and the last to Coccyzus 

 cinereus Vieillott (No. 119 of his list). 



I have lately examined these skins, preserved in the Museum of Com 

 parative Zoology, and find that they all belong to Coccyzus cinereus. The 

 December specimens are adults in perfectly characteristic plumage. The 

 January skin is a young bird in a plumage that differs from that of the 

 adult in the same manner that young of other species of Coccyzus differ 

 from their parents. In wing and tail measurements it agrees with the 

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