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me to com pond with them. The palatine proce e are remark- 

 ably long ;iik) pointed, a very characteristic feature of the skull 

 and strikingly different from the condition found in Chlorophonia. 

 The vomer ia deeply divided anteriorly as Parker has shown 

 and thu i quite different from that of Chlorophonia. 



st< run in . The -tcrnum shows none of the tanagrine peculiarities 

 of Piranga but is almosl exactly similar to that of Chlorophonia. 



Conclusions. The differences between Euphonia and Chloro- 

 phonia in the tongue and palate are o marked as to make one hesi- 

 tate before a erting thai the two genera are nearly allied. Differ- 

 ences in the alimentary canal and in the feet also, may not. be ig- 

 nored. In all of these features Kuplionia approaches some of the 



Coerebidae and the possibility of its relationship to some members 

 of that family should not he ignored. It is however possible that 

 Euphonia minuta is no1 repre entative of the genus and that some 



other jpecie may show more tanagrine aflinitie . 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Holboell's Grebe in Concord, Mass .— On December 15, 1912, Bate- 

 man's Pond froze over with black ice, but a thaw and rain resulted on the 

 17th iii covering the ice with nearly an inch of water. During the moon- 

 light, night thai followed a Eolboell'a Grebe (Colymbus holboelli) attempted 

 to light in the pond and I believe settling on the ice and was unable again 

 to lake wing. < )n the following morning, it having turned cold during the 

 night, the bird was found with its breast, feathers frozen in the ice. The 

 wrists of its wings were badly lacerated by beating against the ice to free 

 itself, bul in other respects the bird was uninjured. After much piteous 

 squawking, its feathers were cut from the ice and the bird liberated. Ita 

 wings, however, were injured so badly thai it was killed and is now pre- 

 served in tin- Museum, i; Beber Howe, Jr., Thoreau M useum, Concord, 

 Ma 



Additional'Notes on the Harlequin Duck in Wyoming.— In "The 



' forfJanuary, 1913, pp. 106 107, I recorded two male specimens of the 



Barlequin Duck which I saw at Teton Lodge (Moras Post Office), in 



Jackson Hole last September, and which were supposed to have been 



