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Mankato. Mr. Rose, therefore, is entitled to the credit of securing the first 

 specimen for the State, for his bird antedates my first capture by thirteen, 

 and Mr. Cantwell's by fourteen years. — Albert Lano, Aitkin, Minn. 



Note on Meleagris gallopavo fera. — In discussing the Turkey ques- 

 tion (Auk, XIV, July, 1897, pp. 272-275) I neglected to express a prefer- 

 ence for Yieillot's terxn fera, and make the formal combination here given. 

 Also, there occurs on p. 274 the typographical error of fera for fera in 

 citing the Gal. Ois. II, 1S25, p. 10, pi. 201, and I inadvertently used the 

 term s'ylvestris instead of fera in citing the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IX, 

 1S17, p. 447. — Elliott Coues, Washington, D. C. 



The Golden Eagle and Barn Owl at Northville, Wayne Co., Mich. — A 

 short time ago a Golden Eagle {Aquila c&rysaetos) was caught at this 

 place. It had dived down upon a flock of Quail and had become entangled 

 in a thick growth of raspberry bushes, and a man standing near by 

 rushed upon the monster bird ami caught it alive. This is the first 

 specimen of its kind ever taken in this part of Michigan, and according 

 to all indications it had been in captivity before, tor it is perfectly 

 docile, and will devour its food in the presence of bystanders without 

 fear. This Eagle not being in its full adult plumage I wrote to Dr. 

 Elliott Coues upon the subject who, in reply, said, "If your Eagle is 

 feathered down the shanks to the roots of the toes it is the Golden 

 Eagle," which proves its identity beyond a doubt. 



Sometime during the last days of October, 1S9S, a Barn Owl [Strix 

 pratincola) was shot by Mr. Abraham Sheffield near Northville, Michigan. 

 It has been mounted and is now- in possession of Stark Bros., of that 

 place. The Barn Owl is very rare in Michigan, and very few have 

 been found in the State. — James B. Purdy, Plymouth. Michigan. 



New Name for the Genus Tetragonops. — Tetragonops Jardine (Edinb. 

 New Phil. Journ. II, No. 2, Oct. 1855, 404), as a genus of American 

 Barbets is preoccupied by Tetragonops Gerstacker (Monatsb. Akad. 

 Berlin, Feb. or March, 1855, 85), and I will propose in its stead Pan, the 

 name of a mythological god of the forests. The two known species will 

 then he. Pan rhamphastinus (Jardine), and Pan franfzii (Scl.). — Chas. 

 W. Richmond, U. S. Nat. Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Notes on the Myology of Hemiprocne zonaris. — It might he sup- 

 posed that the anatomical possibilities of so small a group as the 

 Swifts had been exhausted, but that this is not the case is shown by an 

 examination of Hemiprocne zonaris, for which I am indebted to Mr. C. B. 

 Taylor of Jamaica. The cranium is typically cypseline, so are the wing 

 muscles, although the deltoid is small, as in the majority of the true 

 Swifts, there being an apparent tendency to reduction in the number 



