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doubtful member of the Mimidse, constituting the subfamily Calypto- 

 philinse. 



Cory, in the recently issued Part II, No. 1, of his ' Catalogue of Birds of 

 the Americas', has raised the subfamily to family rank as " ? Calyptophilidse" 

 with the comment that " the monotypic genus may later be considered to 

 represent a subfamily." 



I have recently had the opportunity of examining nine perfect skins of 

 this species in the collection of Dr. L. C. Sanford. These prove that 

 Calyptophilus is not ten-primaried as stated by Mr. Ridgway, but typically 

 ' nine-primaried,' the tenth primary being a minute concealed vestigial 

 quill varying from 4 to 8.5 mm. in length. There is no longer any reason 

 for retaining this genus in the Mimidse, and I believe that for the present, 

 at least, it should be restored to its former position in the Tangaridse next 

 to Phcenicophilus, and in the neighborhood of Tachyphonus, Mitrospingus 

 and Rhodinocichla. I would also suggest that the name of Chat-Thrasher 

 bestowed by Mr. Ridgway be emended to Chat-Tanager. — .W. DeW. 

 Miller, American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



Junco aikeni in New Mexico. — In the last (1910) edition of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union 'Check-List of North American Birds,' 

 Junco aikeni is reported as of casual occurrence in New Mexico. Since 

 there is no previous printed information that authenticates this statement, 

 it seems worth while to place on record the single specimen that forms its 

 basis, and this more since it forms the only record for New Mexico, and, 

 furthermore, represents the southwestern limit of the known winter range 

 of the species. This individual is now in the Biological Survey collection 

 (No. 192902, U. S. Nat. Mus.) and is a female in juvenal plumage, col- 

 lected two miles north of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, at an altitude of 

 8000 feet on January 20, 1904, by Mr. M. Surber — Harry C. Ober- 

 holser, Washington, D. C. 



Notes on Some Bird Fossils from Florida. — On May 15, 1918, Dr. 

 E. H. Sellards, State Geologist of Florida, sent me a small lot of fossil 

 bird bones from Tallahassee and they were received a few days after that 

 date. In the letter of transmittal Dr. Sellards states that one of these 

 specimens is " a bird bone that came from an Indian mound. This bone 

 is marked merely x, no other number." I find it to be the left humerus 

 of a Florida Cormorant (Phalacrocorax a. floridanus), nearly perfect, and in 

 a subfossilized condition, being of a rather pale earth-brown color and very 

 pliable. 



In referring to these " scraps " in his letter of the fourteenth of the same 

 month Dr. Sellards saj's that " The one small piece of bone differing from 

 the others in color is from a different locality. I find it in a collection from 

 the Pleistocene at Camp Dam on the Withlacoochee River, and presum- 

 ably it was taken in that locality although it seems to have escaped getting 

 a number assigned to it." This bone is the distal end of a right tarsometa- 



