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The example was of course brought from West Africa, probably from 

 Senegal, to Cuba, and very likely it was an escape from captivity actually 

 taken there. 



D'Orbigny's name for the Gray-headed Serinus being older than any 

 of the other names applicable to the species, must be used instead of 

 S. hartlaubii, and the species will have to stand as — 



Serinus caniceps (d'Orbigny). 



Linaria caniceps d'Orbigny in: La Sagra, Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1840 (= 1839) 

 p. 107, Atlas pi. 16 (Cuba, escaped cage-bird — we substitute Senegal, 

 West Africa). Type (?), M. C. Z. 83869, Lafr. coll. 6785.— Outram 

 Bangs and Thomas E. Penard, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



The Louisiana Tanager in Massachusetts. — On December 19, 

 1919, Miss M. J. Sitgreaves found an adult female Louisiana Tanager 

 (Piranga ludoviciana) in a dying condition in a garden in Brookline, Mass. 

 It was taken into the house and warmed and fed by the ladies, but soon 

 died. The weather was extremely cold at the time. 



The bird was given to Prof. Roland Thaxter who brought it to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, where it was skinned and found to be 

 fat and apparently in perfect health. 



I believe this is the second record for Massachusetts, and the fourth 

 for New England. The others are: Maine, near Bangor, about Octo- 

 ber 1, 1889; Massachusetts, Salem, January 20, 1878 (taken alive); Con- 

 necticut, New Haven, December 15, 1892. Thus three of the four New 

 England records are of birds taken in winter. 



The specimen has been transferred to the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, where New England record specimens, so far as possible, are 

 gathered together. — Outram Bangs, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



Bohemian Waxing in Illinois. — Northeastern Illinois is having a 

 visitation of Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) this winter. They 

 were first noticed in Jackson Park, Chicago, by Nathan Leopold, who 

 wrote of seeing several hundred of them on Thanksgiving day, feeding 

 on the red berries of certain trees in the Park. The following Sunday 

 Colin Sanborn and H. L. Stoddard went up to the pine woods along the 

 Lake Michigan shore at Beach, about twelve miles north of here, and 

 succeeded in taking a number of specimens. It was a very cold day with 

 a high north wind, and flock after flock passed over, heading south. They 

 were wild and hard to reach with fine shot. Mr. Stoddard estimated that 

 about fifteen hundred passed over while they were in the pines. Those 

 taken had the throats and stomachs stuffed with Juniper berries. Dur- 

 ing December numerous small flocks were seen about the town. They 



