248 General Notes. 



in recent years, yet Bow Island is a small atoll in the South Pacific, one 

 of a large number of coral islets composing the Paumotu chain, and 

 withal a most unlikely place for any member of either the Dicmida or 

 Fringillidce. 



Darwin (Zool. Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds, 1841, p. 105), in concluding his 

 account of the Galapagos finches refers to the present bird, as follows: 

 "I may here mention that a third and well characterized species of 

 Cactornis has lately been sent by Captain Belcher, R. N. to the Zoological 

 Society; as Capt. Belcher visited Cocos Island, which is the nearest 

 land to the Galapagos Archipelago, being less than 400 miles distant, it 

 is very probable that the species came thence. " As we now know some 

 thing of the ornis of Cocos Island, Darwin's suggestion would lead us to 

 suspect the lately described Cocornis agassizi Townsend (Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., XXVII, 1895, p. 123, pi.), to be identical with Pinaroloxw* 

 inornata, and a comparison between a female of the former and Sharpe's 

 description (Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., X, p. 52) of the latter, actually 

 proves them to be one and the same species. That there was some un 

 certainty about the habitat of Cactornis inornata at the time Darwin 

 wrote is evident from his surmise that Cocos Island was its true home. 

 From the foregoing it will be seen that the ornis of Polynesia can no 

 longer claim Pinaroloxias inornata, which name should in future be 

 applied to the Cocos Island bird. Charles W. Richmond. 



The common Nyctinomus of the Greater Antilles. 



In the original description of Nyctinomus antiUularum, the common 

 free-tailed bat of the Lesser Antilles (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia. 

 1902, p. 398, September 12, 1902), I compared the species with the re 

 lated form occurring in the Greater Antilles, but neglected to mention 

 the technical name of the latter. This is Nyctinomus musculus Gund- 

 lach (Monatsber. k. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch, Berlin, 1861, p. 149), based 

 on Cuban specimens. The animal is readily distinguishable from all 

 of the known continental members of the Nyctinomus brasiliensis group 

 by its smaller size, shorter ear, and rudimentary, peg-like anterior lower 

 premolar. Gerrit 8. Miller, Jr. 



Lophostoma Venezuelan changed to Tonatia Venezuela?. 



In publishing a paper in conjuction with Capt. Wirt Robinson, on a 

 collection of mammals made in the vicinity La Guaira, Venezuela, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV p. 154, Oct. 3, 1901, I overlooked Dr. Palmer's 

 "Random notes on the nomenclature of the Chiroptera," Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash., XII p. Ill, April 30, 1898, where he shows that Lop?iostom<i 

 D'Orbigny 1836 is antedated by Tonatia, Gray 1827. The bat described 

 from near La Guaira as Lophostoma venezuelce should stand as Tonatia 

 Venezuela (Robinson and Lyon) Marcv* W. Lyon, Jr. 



