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General Notes. [July 



Die Vdgel der Zoologischen Garten. Zweiter Theil. 8vo., pp. 19 + 456, 

 Leipzig, 1884. 



Finsch, O. Ueber Vogel der Siidsee. 8vo., pp.. 56. Wien, 1884. 



Scudder, S. H. Nomenclator Zoologicus. (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 

 19.) 



Shufeldt, R. W. Osteology of Ceryle alcjon. (Journ Anat. and Phj's., 

 XVIII, pp.379-394' pl- ^iv.) 



Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie, I Jahr., Heft i, 1884. 



Ornithologist and Oologist, April, May, June, 18S4. 



Bulletin Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club, I, Nos. 5, 6. 



Bulletin of Massachusetts Natural History, I, Nos. i, 2, April, May, 1S84. 



American Naturalist, May, June, July, 18S4. 



Zoologist, April, May, June, 1884. 



Random Notes on Natural History, I, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 1884. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Generic Name Ligea. — As I find the generic name Ligea, proposed 

 by me for a Sylvicoline bird from Haiti in the January number of 'The 

 Auk' (p. i), is preoccupied in zoology, I propose to substitute therefor 

 the name Microligea (iiiKpoQ, Ai7€ia, in the sense of little wood-nymph). 

 The single known species will therefore stand as Microligea palustris. 

 — Charles B. Cory, Boston, Mass. 



The Occurrence of the Golden Swamp Warbler {Protofwtaria citrea) 

 in Rhode Island. — The specimen, a male in bright plumage, was shot April 

 20, 1884, upon the bordei's of a dense though not extensive swamp in the 

 southeastern corner of the State. The mein of the bird was suggestive 

 of fatigue, and it showed no fear of its captors, who were forced to retreat 

 from it before firing, to avoid excessive mutilation. No other birds were 

 seen in the vicinity; in fact, Yellow-rumped Warblers and Fox Sparrows 

 were the only other birds present in force in this locality at that season. 

 Upon examination the wing (primaries) and tail-feathers showed con- 

 siderable wear, though not conspicuously more than several specimens 

 shot upon the western range of this bird, with which I have compared 

 it. The only previous record of this beautiful warbler in New England 

 seems to have been that of a fall (October) bird in Maine. This occur- 

 rence, so near the annual migration, suggests the query as to whether 

 the especially favoi-able locality in which it was found may not be regu- 

 larly visited. — R. G. Hazard, 2D., Peace Dale, R. I. 



Capture of the Summer Red Bird on Long Island. — On May 16, 

 1883, my cousin, a boy of about fourteen, brought me a couple of birds 



