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Setophaga ruticilla.—Quite common. 
Galeoscoptes carolinensis.—Quite common. 
Harporhyncus rufus.—One seen. 
Sitta carolinensis.—Quite common. 
Parus atricapillus.—Common. 
Regulus satrapa.—A few seen on Ossipee Mt. 
Regulus calendula.—A few seen. 
Turdus aonalaschke pallasii.—Quite common. 
Merula migratoria.—Common. 
Sialia sialis.—Common. 
One each of Halieetus leucocephalus and Vireo gilvus was observed 
at Centre Harbor in passing through. — Francis H. ALLEN, West Rox- 
bury, Mass. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
[ Correspondents are requested to write briefly and to the point. No attention will 
be paid to anonymous communications. | 
The proper Name for the Genus Melanipitta of Schlegel. 
Epirors oF THE AUK :— 
Dear Sirs: In the 14th volume of the ‘‘Catalogue of the Birds in the 
British Museum,” p. 449, published in 1888, Dr. P. L. Sclater has pro- 
posed to substitute Coracopitta for Melanipitta of Schlegel (type P2tta 
lugubris Rosenb.), the latter name being preoccupied. I would call 
attention, however, to the fact that as early as 1885 I replaced Melan- 
tpitta by Mellopitta for the same reason, my name consequently hay- 
ing the priority over that of Dr. Sclater. The change was made in the 
‘Standard Natural History,’ IV, Birds, p. 466. 
Yours very truly, 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER. 
Washington, D.C., Dec., 1888. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. Henry STEVENSON, of Norwich, England, a Corresponding Mem- 
ber of the A. O. U., died August 18, 1888. In 1864 he was elected a 
member of the British Ornithologists’ Union, and was one of the 
founders, and for many years President of the Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists’ Society, to whose ‘Transactions’ he was a frequent con- 
tributor, as also to the pages of the ‘Zoélogist.” As an ornithologist 
he is perhaps best known as the author of a work entitled ‘The Birds of 
Norfolk,’ Vol. I of which appeared in 1866, and Vol. II in 1870, the work 
remaining unfinished at the time of his death. ‘‘To those who en- 
