35O General Notes. [October 



species, which now stands as Uropsila leucogastra. This being the case, 

 it is obviously undesirable to retain the name leucogaster for the present 

 bird as well as for the Uropsila ; we therefore suggest that the form should 

 stand as Thryothorus bairdi." 



It seems, however, that the Mexican form of Bewick's Wren had pre- 

 viously been accurately described by Dr. Hartlaub as Thryothorus muri- 

 nus, in the 'Revue et Magazin de Zoologie,' Vol. IV, 1852, p. 4, a transla- 

 tion of the description being as follows : 



"Above pale brownish cinereous, the pileum more brownish; along, 

 narrow, and sharply defined superciliary stripe of white; parotic region 

 streaked with white; feathers of lower back and rump with partially hidden 

 ante-apical spots of white encircled by black; primaries (except the first) 

 and secondaries, for their basal half slightly, and tertials more distinctly, 

 barred ; two middle tail-feathers concolor with the back, barred with black- 

 ish ; the two next blackish, with whitish tips, the rest with outer webs 

 more and more spotted with whitish, the outer with tip entirely whitish; 

 under tail-coverts white barred with black; body beneath pale ashy, more 

 whitish medially, the chin and throat purer whitish; breast washed with 

 the color of the back; feet blackish, bill brownish ; tail graduated; second 

 to fifth quills subequal. Length,* 5.40; bill from forehead, .65 ; from 

 rictus, .77; wing, 2.30; tail, 2.40; tarsus, .85. Hab. Mexico: Rio Frio. 

 Museums of Bremen and Hamburg." 



The only Mexican species which have the peculiar pattern of the tail- 

 feathers described above are T. bevjicki (subspecies ki bait di" Sal v. & Godm. 

 and spilurus Vig. ) and T. albinucha (Cabot). The latter is of very dif- 

 ferent proportions, however, and is, moreover, confined to Yucatan and the 

 Peten district of Guatemala. Therefore, since the description cited ap- 

 plies very exactly to the bird first named Thryothorus betuichi, var. leuco- 

 gaster by Prof. Baird, and afterwards T. bairdi by Salvin and Godman, 

 it appears necessary to discard both these appellations for that given earlier 

 by Hartlaub. the correct name of Baird's Wren thus being Thryothorus 

 bezuickii murimts (Haiti.). — Robert Ridgway, Smithsonian Institution. 



Central New York Notes. — Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus hens- 

 lozvi). An adult male of this bird was taken by me near Syracuse, on 

 June 30 of this year. Attention was drawn to the bird through its peculiar 

 song, delivered from a tall weed in a field. 



Orange-crowned Warbler {Hclminthophila celata). Oct. 2, 18S6, 

 I shot a young female near Syracuse, as it was following a small company 

 of Golden-crowned Kinglets. 



Common Tern (Sterna hirundo). Secured an adult female August 12, 

 1SS7, on Onondaga Lake. 



Sanderling (Calidris arcnaria). I have a female of this bird, taken 

 by a friend, Aug. 12, 1887, on Onondaga Lake. — Morris M. Green, 

 Syracuse, N. 7". 



* The measurements are reduced from French inches and decimals to English inches 

 and decimals. 



