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of-the-year' of this same species sliowing every indication of a male bird, 

 and lie was flying towards that part of the park where the superintendent 

 claims that they have been breeding for two or three years. None have 

 been seen here'after the general migration of the birds from this section. 



In answer to my letter of Oct. 2, Mr. Ridgway stated that he regretted 

 that the note could not be made use of in his new work. Later I received 

 another letter from him in which he states : " It being now too late to 

 utilize your note concerning the Cardinal, I would suggest that you send 

 it to Dr. Allen for publication in 'The Auk'." 



As supplementary to the above note, permit me to state that a gentle- 

 man here by the name of Dr. Rich, who is making something of a study 

 of ornithology, reported to me that he had for the first time seen the Car- 

 dinal, adult male and female together, some ten days ago within about half 

 a mile of where I saw the birds as above stated. To me this is very interest- 

 ing and particularly the information received from so accurate an observer 

 as the superintendent of the park, that these birds had been breeding m 

 the park, and across the Sioux River in Dakota, within the past two years. 

 The superintendent has lived in the park for about twelve years, and it 

 is only during the past two or three years that he has observed them.- 

 D.H. Talbot, Sioux City, loiva. 



Tiaris instead of Euetheia. — According to the strict law of priority 

 Tiarts will have to take the place of Euetheia. Swainson expected his 

 diagnosis of the genus Tiaris (Zool. Journ., Ill, Dec. 1S27, 354), to pre- 

 cede his description of Tiaris fusillus (Philos. Mag., n. s., I, June, 1827, 

 43S), but owing to delayed publication of the ' Zoological Journal ' article 

 the description of T. fusillus was first to appear, and hence constitutes 

 the type of the genus. Tiaris will therefore apply to the genus we now 

 know as Euetheia, and our species will stand as Tiaris bicolor and 

 Tiaris canora. — Chas. W. Richmond, Washington, D. C. 



An Addition to the Avifauna of the United States.— The resident 

 White-eyed Vireo of the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, proves to be the 

 F/Veo «^fe/'o;'«ce«5/5 »«V;'«.f Nelson, described in ' The Auk,' Vol. XVI, 

 No. I. January, 1899, p. 30. from Victoria, in the State of Tamaulipas, 

 Mexico. Mr. Nelson agrees with me that the resident Texan bird is the 

 Tamaulipan form - micrus. Its characters are: " Similar to V. novebora- 

 censis, but smaller and duller colored, with a paler wash of yellow on 

 flanks. Wing, 58 ; tail, 50 ; culmen, 10 ; tarsus, 20." Its breeding, 

 range, in Texas, extends from Kinney and Uvalde Counties to the Gulf 

 of Mexico. Of thirteen Texan specimens in the United States National 

 Museum series, eight have the wing shorter than that of the type of 

 micrus; the remaining five having the wing equal to or longer than in 

 the type of micrus. Although some Texan specimens (migrants) are 

 referable to the northern form, all are smaller than the average typical 

 bird of New York. — Edgar A. Mearns, Fort Adams, Ne-vport,R. I. 



