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Aeronautes saxatalis (Woodhouse). — Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, 

 D. C. 



A New Name for Phaeochroa Gould. — The name of the genus of 

 Trochilidae now known as Phaeochroa Gould (Introd. Troch., 1861, p. 54; 

 type, Trochilus cuvierii De Lattre and Bourcier) proves to be preoccupied 

 by Phaeochrous Laporte de Castelnau (Hist. Nat. Ins., II, 1840, p. 108), 

 a genus of Coleoptera. As it seems to be generically separable from 

 Aphantochroa Gould and appears to possess no synonym, we propose 

 to call it Bombornis ($6[L$oq bombus; opvc<; avis)nom.nov., with Trochilus 

 cuvierii De Lattre and Bourcier as type. The following species are refer- 

 able to this genus: 



Bombornis cuvierii cuvierii (De Lattre and Bourcier). 



Bombornis cuvierii saturatior (Hartert). 



Bombornis roberti (Salvin). — Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



Great Crested Flycatcher in Massachusetts in Winter. — On 



December 8, 1919, at Nahant Beach, Mass., I found a Great Crested 

 Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus). The bird was in apparently good con- 

 dition and quite tame. When alarmed at my close approach it seemed 

 reluctant to leave the immediate vicinity and allowed me to observe 

 it at close range. On the beach, where I first flushed it, was a mass of 

 kelp, washed up by the tide, and covered with hundreds of black insects 

 the size of a common fly. When I walked by, the insects rose in clouds 

 covering my clothes. Upon these insects the bird was feeding, catching 

 them from its perch on the rocks or from a wooden fence that runs along 

 a walk near the beach. It would be interesting to know whether or not 

 it will survive the winter. — Charles B. Floyd, Auburndale, Mass. 



The Song of the Boat-tailed Grackle. — During a six weeks' trip 

 through central and eastern Florida in January and February, 1917, the 

 writer had numerous opportunities to improve acquaintance with this 

 distinctive grackle (Megaquiscalus major major). Here its range is not 

 strictly maritime (as it appears to be elsewhere along the Atlantic Coast 

 from Georgia to Maryland), for it makes its home also about the many 

 bodies of fresh water throughout the interior of the state as far north 

 as the vicinity of Gainesville. It is known everywhere to Florida people 

 as the 'Jackdaw,' a name probably adopted and handed down by the 

 early settlers because they saw in this species some slight similarity to 

 the Old- World Jackdaw {Colozus monedula), a small representative of 

 the family Corvidae. The females differ so much in size and color from 

 the resplendent males that they have gained, here and there, a separate 

 appellation; in the Kissimmee region, for instance, they are said to be 

 ailed 'Cowbirds.' 



