Vo l' 8 J V1 ] General Notes. 8 1 



tinct from Aimophila'), it may as well be referred, at least provisionally, 

 to Aimophila. Whether Zonotrichia mystacalis Hartlaub, Z. quinques- 

 triata Sclater & Salvin, Hcemophila humeralis Cabanis, Aimophila 

 acuminata Lichtenstein, Hcemophila laturencii Salvin & Godman, and 

 Chondestes ruficauda Bonaparte, are to be retained in Aimophila ' or not 

 has nothing to do with the case as affecting the nomenclature of the 

 A. O. U. Check-List. 



It therefore seems evident that the nomenclature of the A. O. U. Check- 

 List requires modification in the following respects : — 



(r) The interpolation of the genus Aimophila Swainson (Classification 

 of Birds, II, 1837, 2S7, type, by elimination, Pipilo rufescens Swainson). 



(2) Change in generic names of nos. 579 to 5S0/J, inclusive, which 

 should read as follows : — 



579. Aimophila carpalis (Coles). 



580. Aimophila ruficeps (Cassin). 



580*7. Aimophila ruficeps scottii (Sennett). 

 580/;. Aimophila ruficeps eremceca (Brown). 



(3) Interpolation of an additional subspecies of A. ruficeps, as 



580c. Aimophila ruficeps sororia Ridgw. (Auk, XV, July, 189s, 

 p. 2:6), from the mountain districts of southern Lower California. — 

 Robert Ridgway, Washington, D. C. 



Further Notes on Dendroica kirtlandi. — My paper on Kirtland's War- 

 bler published in the last number of 'The Auk' (Vol. XV, pp. 2S9-293), 

 requires an addition and a correction as follows: Mr. B. T. Gault calk 

 my attention to the record of a capture of a specimen of this species by 

 Mr. J. K. Dickinson, in Winnebago Co., Illinois, May 25, 1S94, published 

 in Bulletin No. 4 of the Nelson Ornithological Chapter (Oberlin, O., Jan. 

 [5, 1895) : and Mr. A. H.Jennings writes that his inclusion of the species 

 in his nominal list of the birds of New Providence (Johns Hopkins 

 University Circular, VII, 63) was based not on one but on eight speci- 

 mens. 



With Mr. Cory's Florida specimens recorded in the same number of 

 'The Auk' in which my paper appeared, these additions raise the total 

 number of known specimens of this Warbler to seventy-five, of which 

 fifty-five have been taken in the Bahamas and twenty in the United 

 States.— Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



Proper Name for Macgillivray's Warbler. — Macgillivrav's Warbler 

 Mas one of those western species discovered by John K. Townsend 1834- 



1 I have already made Aimophila superciliosa Swainson, the type of a new 

 genus, Plagiospiza (Auk, XV, July, 189S, p. 242). 



