86 General Notes. [^ 



Capture of the Louisiana Tanager at New Haven, Connecticut. — I made 

 one of the most noteworthy captures here on the morning of Dec. 15, 1892, 

 that I have ever taken, viz., a Louisiana Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) , a 

 male in immature plumage. I believe the only other New England 

 record is the one taken at Lynn, Mass., Jan. 20, 1878. My bird was 

 exhibited to several persons while still in the flesh as proof of its actual 

 occurrence here. It is not an escaped caged bird, as the feet and plumage 

 clearly indicate. — H. W. Flint, JVew Haven, Conn. 



Dendroica kirtlandi in Minnesota. — ■ I took an adult male Kirtland's 

 Warbler on May 13, 1S92, near Minneapolis. When first seen it was in 

 company with White-throated Sparrows in a narrow hedge of small plum 

 trees that divided two ploughed fields. It had flown down and was feed- 

 ing on the ploughed ground, when I shot it. — H. M. Guilford, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. 



Occurrence and Breeding of the Kentucky Warbler in Connecticut. — 

 On July 10, 1S92, while passing through a piece of swampy woods in 

 Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Conn., my ear was caught by an unfamiliar 

 bird note in the underbrush near the path. A short search revealed a 

 bird which I soon saw to be the Kentucky Warbler. Not having a gun at 

 hand, I watched her for some time, suspecting from her manifest alarm 

 that young were near at hand. Such proved to be the case, asj[a few min- 

 utes later I saw her feeding a well-fledged nestling, perched near by. 



Returning at dusk, I was fortunate enough to find, a few hundred feet 

 from the former locality, one of the parents, which I secured. It proved 

 to be the male. The female and the young I was unable to find on either 

 this or the several succeeding occasions on which I looked for them. This 

 is, I think, the first record of its breeding in Connecticut. — Clark G. 

 Voorhees, New York City. 



Heleodytes vs. Campy lorhynchus. — The name Camfylorhynchus pro- 

 posed by Spix 1 in 1824, which has long been used for a genus of Wrens, 

 seems to be preoccupied by Camfiylirhynchus Megerle, a genus of coleop- 

 tera. The latter name was published in Dejean's 'Catalogue de sa Collec- 

 tion de Col^opteres,' 1821, p. 84, thus antedating Spix's name by three 

 years. I have not had an opportunity to examine a copy of this edition of 

 Dejean's Catalogue, but Professor Samuel H. Scudder of Cambridge, who 

 has kindly verified the reference, informs me that the name appears on p. 

 84 without description or any indication that it is usedYor the first time. 

 Seven species, however, are referred to this genus, and as several of them 

 can be recognized, although now placed in other genera, Campylirhynchus 

 Megerle is relieved from the imputation of being a notnen'jiudum. 



•Aves Spec. Nov, Brasil., I, 1824, p. 77, pi. 79. 



