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Chordeiles virginianus minor Cabanis, will become C. v. gundlachii Law- 
. rence.— Cuas. W. Ricumonp, Washington, D. C. 
A New Name for Onychospiza Prjevalski.— Onychospiza Prjevalski 
(Mongol. i Strana Tangut., II, 1876, 81), based on O. taczanowskit of the 
same author, has been generally lumped with Montifringilla Brehm, 1828, 
and the species name has been synonymized with M. mandelli Hume. 
Recently, however, Bianchi (Annuaire Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. St.-Pétersb., 
XII, 1907 (1908), 555) has recognized Onychospiza as a distinct genus, and 
in his paper (on the forms of the genera Montifringilla, Pyrgilauda and 
Onychospiza) has, I believe, pointed out the priority of O. taczanowskii 
(summer of 1876) over M. mandelli (Hume, Stray Feathers, IV, Dec., 
1876, 488). The recognition of Onychospiza recalls the action of Rey 
(Synon. Eur. Brutvégel und Giiste, 1872, 216), who altered Onychospina 
Bonaparte, 1853, to Onychospiza, effectually preoccupying the use of the 
same term in another sense. I therefore suggest Onychostruthus as a 
substitute for Onychospiza Prjevalski, with Onychospiza taczanowskii as 
the type.— Cuas. W. Ricumonp, Washington, D. C. 
The Migrant Shrike near Boston.— On September 4, 1916, I saw a 
Migrant Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus migrans) in Brookline, Mass., near 
the West Roxbury (Boston) line. The bird was in an open pasture, and 
I followed it about for some time, saw it at close range, and positively 
identified it. It was very active, flying about from boulder to fence-post 
and swooping to the ground after insects, probably grasshoppers. Mr. 
Brewster, in ‘ Birds of the Cambridge Region’ (1906) cites but four 
records for the species within ten miles of Boston, and I find no later records 
in ‘ The Auk.’ — Francis H. Auten, West Roxbury, Mass. 
Philadelphia Vireo (Vireosyloa philadelphica) in Massachusetts in 
Autumn.— On September 17, 1916, I shot a young female Philadelphia 
Vireo in Harvard, Mass. The specimen is now in my collection (No. 
682). By a curious coincidence the bird was shot less than 500 yards 
from the spot where I took one about a year previous (Auk, XX XIII, 
p. 78).— JamMzs L. Prtrers, Harvard, Mass. 
Wilson’s Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla pusilla) in Massachusetts in 
December.— On December 3, sunny, light northwest wind, mercury about 
forty, I discovered a male Wilson’s Warbler in the Arnold Arboretum, 
Boston. The bird was in a berry-bearing bush, barberry I think, but did 
not seem to be feeding on the berries but about the branches and twigs. 
He was in full color, very brillant — of course seeming more so in the gray 
world of December, and appeared to be in the best of health and spirits. 
In the same bush was a White-throated Sparrow and across the drive, the 
Mockingbird which has lived there for some years. While I was watching 
