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rabbit-fur stuck full of feathers, among which those of the Carolina Dove 

 were conspicuous. These latter birds are extremely abundant all over 

 Arizona and in the dry season they are often at such straits for water as 

 to congregate in immense flocks at the water-holes, few and far between, 

 which alone render it possible to traverse some parts of the unblest 

 Territory. On the morning of which I write, reveille was sounded bv 

 the clapping and whistling of a thousand eager wings, now venturing 

 near, then frightened from the coveted water where men and animals were 

 crowding. In other times, the Dove brought tidings of dry land; in 

 Arizona now, where everything goes by contraries, river-sites are many, 

 but tlie sight of a Dove is a sui-er sign of water. — Elliott Coue.s, Wask- 

 higton, D. C. 



An Erroneous Record of the Orange-crowned Warbler {Hel- 

 niinthophaga celaia) IN New Hampshire.— In Vol. Ill, pp. 96, 97 of this 

 Bulletin, Mr. John INIurdoch recorded the capture of an Orange-crowned 

 Warbler at the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, by the Messrs. Bangs of 

 Boston. I have latelj' had an opportunity of examining this specimen 

 and find it to be a Tennessee Warbler (^Helminthophaga feregritia), in the 

 ordinary autumnal plumage. It is but just to the Messrs. Bangs to state 

 that they are not to be held responsible for this blunder, the bird having 

 been submitted by them to an ornithologist of some standing, one in 

 wiiose determination they place(i perfect confidence. Nor can Mr. Mur- 

 doch (who I believe took all his facts at second hand) be blamed for 

 accepting the same supposed good authority.— William Brewster, 

 C(imbn'<fgc, Mass. 



On the Generic Name Hclminthofhaga. — The change of a generic 

 name, especially one long established, is in any case unfortunate, and in 

 the present instance seems particularly so ; yet the plain rules of zoological 

 nomenclature leave no alternative. The generic name Helininthop/iaga, 

 proposed in 1850 by Cabanis for a well-known group of American War- 

 blers, was used in a sub-generic sense about forty-seven years previously, 

 by Bechstein, who, in 1S03 (Taschenbuch, p. 548), included under this 

 name the Nightingale and Redbreast of Europe {Luscitit'a J>/iilomela and 

 Erithaciis ritbecttla) ; in consequence of which (no other name having, 

 apparently, been proposed for the group in question) it becomes neces- 

 sary to rename the genus so long called Hehyiinthophaga. In proposing 

 a new name, which I am very reluctant to do, I have selected the term 

 Helmintkofhila, on account of its similarity to the one so long in use. 

 It is proper to state here that my attention was called to this point by Dr. 

 L. Stejneger, the eminent Norwegian ornithologist. 



Leaving out H. la-wrencei and H. leticobronckialis, which Mr. Brewster 

 has pretty clearly proven to be hybrids of H. pinus and H. ckrysoptera, 

 the known speciies of this genus are as follows : — 



1. Helmintkofhila hackmani (Aud.). 



2. Helminthophila chrysoptera (Linn.). 



3. Helminthophila pinus (Linn.). 



