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Mourning Dove wintering in Vermont. — I have never known of a 

 Mourning Dove wintering in this state, but on January 8, 1919, one was 

 taken alive in Shaftsbury, Vt. It died the following day but was mounted 

 and is now in the collection of Henry Bradford, Bennington, Vt. 



Robins, Meadow Larks, and Sparrow Hawks are wintering in Benning- 

 ton — a very unusual thing — due, I suppose, to the mildness of the 

 winter and to the lack of snow. — Lucretius H. Ross, Bennington, Vt. 



Thrasaetos versus Harpia. — The generic name currently used for the 

 Harpy Eagle is Thrasaetos Gray, because Harpyia Vieillot is preoccupied 

 by Harpyia Illiger (Prod. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 1811, pp. 118-119) for a 

 mammal. Vieillot's name, however, was first spelled Harpia (Analyse 

 Nouv. Ornith. Elem., 1816, p. 24; type by monotypy, Vultur harpyja 

 (Linnaeus), in which form, with one less syllable, it is according to the 

 International Code of Nomenclature, not invalidated by Harpyia. 

 Furthermore, the original spelling of the specific name of this species is 

 harpyja ( Vultur harpyja Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, p. 86; Mex- 

 ico); and the Harpy Eagle should, therefore, now stand as Harpia harpyja 

 (Linnaeus). 



It may be worth while also to call attention to the fact that Swainson in 

 1827 spelled this generic name Harpya (Philos. Mag., new ser. I, No. V, 

 May, 1827, p. 366); and that the generic name Thrasaetos, commonly 

 attributed to G. R. Gray, is merely a manuscript name of Gray's, origi- 

 nally published by Bonaparte ( Thrasaetos Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1837 (June 14, 1838), p. 108 [ex G. R. Gray MS.], type by mono- 

 typy, Vultur harpyja Linnaeus). — Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The Status of the Generic Name Archibuleo. — The generic name 

 Archibuteo Brehm has for long been in use for the Rough-legged Hawks. 

 This name, proposed in 1828 by Brehm (Isis, XXI, No. 12, December, 1828, 

 col. 1269), was based solely on the " Rauchfussbussard " and two nomina 

 nuda, Archibuteo planiceps Brehm and Archibuteo alticeps Brehm; hence 

 Falco lagopu-s Brunnich, to which from Brehm's later publications all these 

 evidently must be referred, has been commonly considered the type of 

 Archibuteo. In the original description, however, aside from the two pure 

 nomina nuda, only the vernacular name without citation of authority or 

 anything else that would serve to identify it, is given. The generic term 

 Archibuteo is, therefore, certainly a nomen nudum at this place, as is clearly 

 indicated by the International Code of Nomenclature and current practice. 

 The earliest tenable citation for Archibuteo is in 1831 (Brehm, Handb. 

 Naturg. Vog. Deutschlands, 1831, p. 38), when Brehm gives as the two 

 included species, Archibuteo planiceps Brehm and Archibuteo alticeps 

 Brehm, here fully described, both of which are synonyms of Falco lagopus 

 Brunnich. Meanwhile, however, two other names were introduced for the 

 group — Triorchis Kaup (Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Natiirl. Syst. Eur. Thierw., 



