1912 J General Notes. 545 



All of the specimens collected were in more or less worn plumage, but 

 only one had made any progress with a molt, and on this bird it is only 

 noticeable in the tail, half of which was composed of new feathers. — F. C. 

 Lincoln, Assistant, Dept. of Ornithology, Colo. Museum of Natural History, 

 Denver. 



Proper Name for the Nashville Warbler.— The specific name of the 

 Nashville Warbler was changed in the eighth supplement to the A. O. U. 

 Check-List from ruficapilla to rubricapilla because " Sylvia ruficapilla 

 Wils. (1810), is preoccupied by Sylvia ruficapilla Lath. 1790." The fact is 

 that Sylvia ruficapilla Latham, 1790, is not an original description, but is 

 merely the placing in the genus Sylvia of Motacilla ruficapilla GmeUn, 

 1789, and as such does not preoccupy Sylvia ruficapilla Wilson. 



Hence the name of the Nashville Warbler should be Vermivora rufica- 

 pilla Wilson, and the reference, Sylvia ruficapilla Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 

 1811, 120, pi. 27, fig. 3. — Wells W. Cooke, Biological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Abundance of the Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina) around 

 Quebec. — It is surprising to note that this rare warbler has been found 

 very commonly in the woods around Quebec this spring, and even in the 

 parks of the city. Two young ornithologists, P. W. Cook and A. W. Ahern, 

 of this city, shot about fifteen, of which twelve were brought to me. They 

 met with six to eight bands of the warbler, each containing something over 

 a score of birds, and these in different locahties, they seemed to be almost 

 as numerous as the Myrtle Warbler. The first specimen seen, which was 

 in company with a small flock of Black-throated Green Warblers, was shot 

 on the 9th of May and by the 18th the species was very common. The 

 last was seen on the 25th. 



It has also been noticed that many other warblers were more common 

 this spring than usually, especially the Blackburnian and Bay-breasted. — 

 C. E. DiONNE, Quebec, Can. 



Mimicry in the Song of the Catbird.— Though belonging to a dis- 

 tinguished and accomplished family of singers numbering among its mem- 

 bers such delightful songsters as the Brown Thrasher, Mockingbird and 

 more distantly related Carolina Wren,, the Catbird figures with a more 

 modest pretention to song and until recently I had supposed its vocal 

 powers limited to its own individual lyrical, and sometimes seemingly 

 labored song. But on July 5, 1912, while working in a meadow adjacent 

 to a small brook with its usual tangle of alder, raspberry and elder I noted 

 with considerable surprise and interest, more so because of the day-light 

 hour, 11 A. M., the song of a Whip-poor-will, somewhat subdued and minor 

 in quality, but clear and distinct nevertheless. It was several times 

 repeated from the nearby thicket. So out of the usual was it at this hour 

 that I went at once to reconnoiter and was not a little surprised to find the 



