3o8 General Notes. [J^"l^ 



p. 640), as breeding in the "Mississippi bottoms as far as Red Wing," 

 about fifty miles below Minnehaha Creek, we had not hitherto found 

 this species in the vicinity of Fort Snelling. — Louis di Zerega 

 Mearns, Fort Snelling., Minn. 



Lophophanes vs. Baeolophus. — If the Crested Tits are to be separated 

 generically from Parns, as the writer thinks should be done, the name 

 Lop/iop/tanes should be restricted to the Palsearctic species, and the name 

 Bceolophus Cabanis, used for the American species. The two groups 

 differ materially in structural detail, and each runs through the same 

 scale of variation as to style of coloration, both genera containing 

 conspicuously "bridled" species {Lophophanes cristatus and Bceolophus 

 ivollzveberi) and excessively plain-colored species (Lophopha?ies dichrous 

 and Bceolophus inornatus). This parallelism in color-variation has served 

 to confuse the case by leading those authors who would separate the two 

 groups to place B. ivolliveberi in the genus Lophophanes on account of 

 its general resemblance in coloration to L. cristatus ; but B. -ivolhveberi 

 represents the extreme differentiation of the American group in structural 

 characters. 



The species and subspecies of Bceolophus recognized by the A. O. U. 

 Committee on Classification and Nomenclature are as follows : — 



731. Bceolophus bicolor (Linn.). 



73 1«. Bceolophus bicolor texensis (Sennett). 



732. Bceolophus atricristatus (Cassin). 



733. Bceolophus inornatus (Gambel). 



733<?. Bceolophus inornatus griseus (Ridgway).^ 

 733^- Bceolophus inornatus cineraceus (Ridgway). 



734. Bceolophus Tvolliveberi (Bonap). — 



Robert Ridgway, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Balancing with One Wing. — Soon after reading Mr. Fishers' article 

 in ' The Auk ' for April on one wing equilibrium, I had an opportunity 

 to observe this same method of balancing in the common Blue Jay. I 

 secured a young Blue Jay, who had been out of the nest only twelve 

 hours. When he perched on my finger, I turned the finger over, so as to 

 destroy his equilibrium. But he would not be thrown off, but once shot 

 out his left wing and gained his balance. I tried this experiment several 

 times, with the result that he always gained his balance with one wing, 

 usually the left one, as in Mr. Fisher's House Finches. He used his 



' The removal of this form from the genus Farus renders the suppression 

 of the subspecific name griseus and the substitution of ridgwayi, as proposed 

 by Ur. Richmond, unnecessary. 



