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Mr. Palmer is right, sometimes he is wrong, and sometimes he is just 

 ' betwixt and between.' Take the case of the genus whose name, in two 

 forms, heads this paragraph. Mr. Palmer says truly that Vieillot wrote 

 the word Thriotkorus ; for so it appears on p. 45 of inv well-thumbed 

 copy of his 'Analyse,' 1816, though this is the page which the A. O. U. 

 Committee cite for Thryothorus. But if Mr. Palmer had looked further 

 into Yieillot's 'Analyse,' he would have found Thryothorus tucked away 

 near the bottom of the right hand column of p. 70, in an alphabetical list 

 of the new genera of the book, where the etymologies are given. There 

 the etymon of the first element of the word is stated as • 0pvov, /uncus' ; 

 and as the correct form resulting is Thryothorus, I think the Committee 

 can defend their use of it, though they may have to cite p. 70 instead of 

 p. 45 for it. At the same time, it offers a nice case for hair-splitting; 

 for the previous Thriotkorus of p. 45 cannot be brushed aside as a " typo- 

 graphical error,*' since Vieillot makes his intention clear by there writing 

 'Thriothore, Thriotkorus.'' I commend the case to nomenclatural 

 casuists. 



While on the genus Thryothorus. I may inquire further how it happens 

 that we have changed the name of T. bewickii leucogaster (Baird, 1S64) to 

 T. b. bairdi ( Ridgway, 1885 ). The fact that there is a Troglodytes leuco- 

 gastra, Gould, P. Z. S., 1S36, p. 89 (which Baird mistook for the sub- 

 species of Thryothorus bewickii which he named leucogaster in Rev. A. B., 

 1S64, p. 127) does not affect the case one way or another. Gould's bird is 

 now Uropsila leucogastra ; it is also Cyphorhinus pusillus of Sclater, 

 Hetorhina pusilla of Baird, etc., and this cannot outlaw the use of the 

 name leucogaster in the genus Thryothorus. Bewick's Wren has never 

 been referred to the genus Troglodytes since one of its subspecies was 

 called leucogaster, and of course there is no rule of nomenclature, express 

 or implied, which requires us to change a specific name in one genus 

 for the reason that the same has been used in another genus. Parity of 

 reasoning — or rather, of unreasoning — would require us to reject Cistotho- 

 rus mariamv, because there was a prior Troglodytes mariance. I submit, 

 therefore, that Thryothorus bewickii bairdi. No. 719^ of the A. O. U. Lists, 

 1886 and 1S95, should stand as T. b. leucogaster. — Elliot Coues, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



The Hudsonian Chickadee breeding in Southern Vermont. — On June 

 29, 1S95, I found two Hudsonian Chickadees (Parus hudsonicus) and one 

 Black-poll Warbler (Deudroica striata) on the summit of Stratton Moun- 

 tain in southern Vermont. According to the U. S. Geological Survey 

 the altitude of Stratton Mountain is 3859 feet, and these birds were 

 observed at an altitude of about 3800 feet. The latitude is about 43 6' — 

 26 miles north of the Massachusetts line. As far as I can learn, the 

 Hudsonian Chickadee has never been recorded from as far south in the 

 breeding season. The Black-poll Warbler has been found by Mr. Bick- 

 nell and others in the Catskills, but I can find no other more southern 

 record for it.— Francis II. Allen, West Roxbury, Mass. 



