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April 16, 1916; the second by the writer alone on May 10, 1919. There 

 are apparently no other spring records for Wisconsin, only one record — ■ 

 time of year not stated— for Michigan, while most of those from Illinois 

 seem to be in the fall. The writer took two specimens of the Clay-colored 

 Sparrow (Spizella pallida) in a dry, shrub-covered field, remote from the 

 city, on May 8, 1919. In the same field on May 30, a nest with three 

 eggs was found on the ground at the foot of a bush. In May of 1918, in 

 the same area, I recorded twenty males on May 4. This sparrow is not 

 rare in southern Wisconsin but is eccentrically local. — Warner Taylor, 

 Madison, Wisconsin. 



Zonotrichia albicollis Again in Colorado. — Since writing 'The 

 Birds of the Clear Creek District/ published in the last issue, the writer 

 has had the good fortune to secure a specimen of the White-throated 

 Sparrow, which is not only a new species for this region, but is also the 

 fourth record for Colorado. 



The specimen, C. M. N. H. No. 7490, is an adult male, and was taken 

 in the Clear Creek Valley, Colorado, Nov. 2, 1919. It is preserved in the 

 collections of the Colorado Museum of Natural History. — F. C. Lincoln, 

 Denver, Colorado. 



The Proper Name of the West African Serin. — The bird 



figured and described from Cuba by d'Orbigny as Linaria caniceps was 

 without any reason whatever referred by Gundlach (Jour. f. Orn., 1871, 

 p. 276) to the Nonpareil, Passerina ciris (Linne), which it does not re- 

 semble in any way. Later Ridgway (Birds of North and Middle Amer- 

 ica, Part I, 1901, p. 589) includes the name, with a query, in the synonymy 

 of P. ciris. 



As d'Orbigny's work on Cuban birds was based in part on specimens 

 from Cuba in the Lafresnaye collection — Lafresnaye's written labels for 

 his specimens bearing testimony to this in more instances than one — 

 we have had, in the course of our work on the Lafresnaye collection, to 

 study critically all species described as new by d'Orbigny. It was at 

 once evident to us, as soon as we saw Plate 16 of the Atlas, that it repre- 

 sented an African Serinus and not the Nonpareil. We therefore searched 

 among the specimens of this genus in the Lafresnaye collection for one 

 that might possibly have been the subject of this plate and found num- 

 ber 6785 with a label in Lafresnaye's handwriting, which reads as follows: 

 "Crithagra chrysopyga Sw. W. af. 1. 206 pi. 17. junior? Cuba, an e 

 Senegarabia allatus?" The specimen agrees minutely with the original 

 description and with the plate, except that the gray of the head has faded 

 from long exposure to direct sunlight, as a mounted bird, to a dull, dirty 

 grayish. It is thus in all probability the type of the species. 



We identify both bird and plate positively as the species which Reich- 

 enow (Vog. Afr. Ill, (1), 1904, p. 272) calls Serinus hartlaubi (Bolle). 



