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Avian Record, III, No. 5, 1917, p. 119.) Change rejected, because 

 the authors of Regulus Bartram 1791 and Regulus Zimmermann 1793, 

 which supposedly preoccupy Regulus Cuvier are neither binomial nor 

 acceptedly binary. 

 Sialia Swainson versus Rubecula Zimmermann. (Cf. Mathews, 'The 

 Auk,' XXXI, No. 1, Jan., 1914, pp. 89-90.) Change rejected, be- 

 cause Zimmermann is not binomial in the publication in question 

 (Bartram, Reisen Nord- und Sud-Karolina, 1793, p. 287), nor is 

 he a binary author accepted by the International Zoological Com- 

 mission. Furthermore, Rubecula is not actually adopted as a generic 

 name by Zimmermann, but simply cited as a polynomial synonym. 

 The list of "Nomina Conservanda" proposed by the Committee of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union (List Brit. Birds, ed. 2, 1915, p. 355) 

 contains the following five names that affect the present status of the 

 A. O. U. Check-List: 



Turdus musicus Linnaeus versus Turdus iliacus Linnaeus. 



Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan) versus Asio accipitrinus (Pallas). 



Cryptoglaux Richmond versus Nyctala Brehm. 



Anas platyrhyncha Linnaeus versus Anas boschas Linnaeus. 



Pterodroma Bonaparte versus Oestrelata Bonaparte. 

 These changes are not acceptable under the law of priority. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Notes on the Black-crowned Night Heron in Western New York. 



According to all published accounts the Black-crowned Night Heron 

 (Nycticoras n. naevius) seems to be rare in western New York. The 

 'Auburn List' 1874 records but a single specimen taken on Seneca River, 

 no date given. Eaton, 'Birds of New York,' records it as a transient 

 visitant, uncommon in the counties of Cayuga, Monroe and Ontario, 

 occasional in Seneca, fairly common in Onondaga and with no record for 

 Yates. And the only breeding record is for Erie County. 



My first record for this bird was May 7, 1911, when I saw a single indi- 

 vidual perched in a tree along the inlet of Keuka Lake at Branchport. 



June 17, 1914, in company with Dr. G. S. Britten and Dr. George D. 

 Lynch, of Syracuse, I visited a breeding colony of Black-crowned Night 

 Herons in a small swamp at Lakeside, Onandaga Lake. There were about 

 75 nests in the herony, about 50 of the Night Heron and 25 of the Green 

 Heron. They were all intermingled, with sometimes nests of both species 

 in the same tree, and some nests were as low as six or eight feet from the 

 water. At this time a few of the nests contained eggs and the others held 

 young of various sizes from newly hatched to about one-half grown. This 



