248 General Notts. 



ill recent years, yet Bow Island is a small atoll in the Sonth 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 Biowidw 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 CocovniH agasxizi Townsend (Bull. Mus. 

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

 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 Cactornu 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. — C/inrles W. Richmond. 



The common Nyctinomus of the Greater AntiSles. 



In the original description of Nyctinomus antilhilarnm, 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 musculvs Gund- 

 lach (Monatsber. k. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch, Berlin, 18(51, 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. — Oerrit 8. Miller, Jr. 



Lopho5toma venezuelas changed to Tonatia venezuelse. 



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

 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 Lopliostoma 

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

 from near Ija Guaira as Lophostoma venczuelcp should stand as Tonatia 

 venezuelcf (Robinson and Tiyon) — Marcus W. Lyon, Jr. 



