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I saw three of the young about half grown, but I failed to catch them. 

 I should never have supposed the young to have been D. coronata, had I 

 not so unmistakably identified the parents. ]\Iy visit to the locality was 

 early in the morning, and, being without a gun, I returned to my hotel 

 with the intention of revisiting the place and securing the interesting 

 family in the evening ; but befoi'e that time I received orders to go south, 

 and could not again revisit the locality. The female was subsequently 

 seen and identified, at the same spot, by a friend, under somewhat similar 

 circumstances, he also failing to procure either the young or the parents. 

 — ludwig kumlien. 



Notes and Queries on Nomenclature of Birds, Genus Wil- 

 soxiA. — The changes mentioned by Dr. Coues are decidedly awkward 

 under the consideration, " II. That use in botany does not preclude use in 

 zoology."* Take the statement, " 103. Wilsonia canadensis (L.). If 

 use of a generic name in botany does not preclude its acceptation in zool- 

 ogy, Wilsonia should replace Mi/iodioctes, Aud." 



Now, confusion is admitted here, and in many other cases, between these 

 names in the two branches of natural science : and an additional burden 

 is laid upon memory, which should always be avoided if possible. It 

 appears, in this instance of illustration, to be necessary almost to distin- 

 guish in which branch of science the names are used, thus : — 

 Wilsonia mitrata (Gm.) ZooL; 

 Wilsonia canadensis (L.) ZooL., etc. 

 It necessitates additional specijic distinctions, whereas, if " use in botany 

 did preclude use in zoology," we would have distinct specijic and distinct 

 generic momenclature in both groups, and absolute distinctiveness between 

 these groups. — J. A. Harvie-Broavn, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., etc., Dunipace 

 House, Larbert, Scotland. 



Albinism in the Bohemian Waxwing. — On the morning of 

 November 17, 1879,1 shot a female Bohemian Waxwing (Ampelis garrula), 

 which presented a lighter appearance than the rest of the flock ; and 

 when picked up I discovered that it was an albino. The description of 

 this bird is as follows : — While the color of the ordinary Bohemian 

 Waxwings varies some in different birds, in this specimen it is fully two 

 shades lighter all over the body. The chestnut of the under tail-coverts, 

 the orange-brown of the front and sides of the head, are the same as in 

 ordinary specimens ; but the velvety-black of the chin and the narrow 

 line extending across the forehead and along the sides of the head, through 

 the eyes, meeting on the occiput behind the crest, are in this specimen a 

 dusky black. The very dark gray of the pi'imaries, secondaries, and 

 primary wing-coverts of the ordinary bird, is in this albino grayish-white, 

 edged with brownish-ash ; the yellow (or white) stripe at the end of outer 



* Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, Vol. V, p. 95. 



