100 General Notes. 



of .1. hninneiii^ from A. porrntuf;^ a? Stejnojrer lias suggested, it should be 

 noticed that A. hrunneus is much more similar to A. carolinensis than is 

 A. porcatus. 



— Thomas Barbour/ 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS RICORDII IN FLORIDA. 



Tlie capture of a specimen of Eleutherodactylus rirordii (Dumeril et 

 Bil)ron) at Eau Gallic about the center of the East Coast of Florida in 

 January of this year was a great surprise as I am reasonably familiar with 

 the fauna of this locality. Cope in his Check List of North American 

 Batrachia and Reptilia (Bull. 1, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1875, p. 31) records it 

 from Southern Florida, Cuba and Bahamas. Boulenger (Cat. Batr. Sal., 

 1882, p. 218) gives a similar distribution though he had seen no specimens. 

 Later Cope writing again in his Batrachia of North America (Bull. 34, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, p. 318) says "A single specimen from Key AVest, 

 Florida, is now in the National Museum. Its proper habitat is Cuba." 

 This seems to be the single capture upon the strength of which Southern 

 Florida has generally been included in the area of its occurrence. 



The Eau Gallie example differs in no wise from Bahaman and Cuban 

 individuals plenty of which are available here in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology for comparison. 



Stejneger has remarked on the identity of Cuban and Floridan examples 

 (The Bahama Islands, New York, The Macmillan Co., 1905, p. 331). He 

 informs me that there is no specimen in the National Museum from Key 

 West, but one old one lal)eled " Southern Florida" and four others more 

 recently received from Lemon City. 



That this form has reached Florida fortuitously and in very recent times 

 there can l)e no doubt whatever. The questions of the speed of its dispersal 

 and whetlier it retains permanently its identity with West Indian examjiles 

 are of very vital interest. This note is ofl'ered with the hope that collec- 

 tors may be on the watch for this species and that they may record speci- 

 mens that have or wiiicli may in future come to their notice. 



— Thoinna Barhonr. 



OX THE XA:\IE OF THE TRINIDAD CCEREBA. 



The yellow-breasted honey-crec'iter from Triniilad was iianied C. [ifrchn] 

 trinitatis l)y Lowe (]l)is, Oct., 1907, 56()), l)ut unfortunately Bonaparte 

 (Comp. Rendus, 38, 1854, 258) gave the same name to the blue honey- 

 creeper, now known as Cyanerpes crrnlra trinitatis (cf. Hellmayr. Nov. 

 Zool. xiii, 1906, 8). As this leaves the yellow-breasted bird from Trini- 

 dad, if distinct from C. Inteola, without a name it may be calh'd Cn'reba 

 htleola hcUtiiinirl. 



—J. II. Riley. 



