Vol. XVI1I-| General Notes. IQ:2 



1901 J ^ \J 



As a young Red-shouldered Hawk, which some years ago I fed on meat, 

 died showing similar symptoms, and later nine joung Ferruginous Rough- 

 legs flourished on a diet of bird and mammal bodies, it seems probable that 

 these birds require bone in their food to attain healthy growth, especially 

 as it is known that young mammals will die of rickets if fed from birth on 

 meat alone. — Louis B. Bishop, M. D., Ne^v Haven, Conn. 



New Name for Nyctala. — The generic name of Richardson's and the 

 Saw-whet Owls, Nyctala Brehm, 1S2S, is preoccupied by Nyctalus 

 Bowdish, 1825. for a genus of mammals, and as no other term appears to 

 be ayailabie I will propose Cryptoglaux (Kpvn-Tos, hidden, and -yXavl, an 

 owl), with Strix teng^nia Ini i GmeVm as the type. The species in our list 

 will thus stand as CrvJ>tog-la//x teugmalmi ric/iardfoni {Bonap.), and Cryp- 

 toglaux acadica (Gmelin). — Charles W. Richmond, U. S. National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. 



The Pileated Woodpecker in Connecticut. — Late last December, Mr. 

 Charles S. Starr, a recent graduate of Yale, saw in Cornwall, western 

 Connecticut, what was undoubtedly a Pileated Woodpecker. He describes 

 it as a large black bird nearly the size of a Crow, with a crimson patch on 

 the back of its head, and some white markings, also having a very long 

 bill. It was clinging to the trunk of a dead tree, pecking, and climbing 

 up spirally. It moved by short hops, and was slow and irregular in flight. 

 I think he has described the species very satisfactorily'. Its occurrence ini 

 this State is now, I think, very uncommon. — Herbert K. Job, Kent, Conn. 



Milvulus versus Muscivora. — The generic name Miiscivora has com- 

 monly been applied to that group of Neotropical flycatchers of which Todus 

 regius Gmelin is the type and earliest described species. A careful investi- 

 gation, however, shows that the name Muscinora was originally employed 

 by Lacepede (Discours du Cours d'Hist. Nat., 1799, p. 5) for the " Mouche- 

 rolles " of Buffon, which include several species of Old and New World 

 flycatchers, among them Tchitrea paradisi, Tchitrea mutata, Milvulus 

 tyrannus and Milvulus forficatus. but not Muscivora regia, this last having 

 been placed by Buffon among the " Gobe Mouches," the group Lacepede 

 (/or. cit.) calls Mnscicapa. Todus regius (^Muscivora regia auct.) can, 

 therefore, in no case be considered the type oi Muscivora. W'hat that type 

 is was first determined by Fischer, who, in 1813 (Zoognosia, I, p. 54), 

 selected Muscicapa forficata (^Milvulus forficatus auct.). Since Milvulus 

 Swainson (Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, p. 165) is thus antedated by Muscivora 

 it must of course give place. 



The next available generic name for Todus regius and its allies is Ony- 

 chorhynchus Fischer (Zoognosia, I, 1S13, pp. 31, 42), type by implication T. 

 regius. The species of these two genera will therefore now stand as 

 follows : 



