Vol. X1V 
1897 
General Notes. 97 
bird occupies pp. 136-139 of the book named in the beginning of this 
note. The specimen which I have selected as the type of cazruszé is in 
Mr. Brewster’s collection; it is a @, in full dress, and was collected by 
Mr. Cairns. — EL_tiorr Cours, Washington, D. C. 
Dendroica czrulea vs. Dendroica rara. — Sylvia cerulea WILSON (Am. 
Orn. II, 1810, 141, etc.), the earliest name for the Cerulean Warbler, is un- 
fortunately preoccupied by Sylvza cerulea LATHAM (Index Orn. II, 1790, 
540), which is a synonym of Polioptcla cerulea (LINN.) ; hence, No. 658, 
of the A. O. U. Check-List becomes Dendroica rara (WiLson) (Sylvéa 
rara, WiLson, Am. Orn. III, 1811, 119, pl. 27, fig. 2). — ROBERT RIpGWaAy, 
Washington, D. C. 
Note on the Genus Lucar of Bartram.— The names given to many 
North American birds by William Bartram in his ‘ Travels,’ orig. ed- 
1791, are likely to raise nomenclatural questions until we come to some 
conclusion whether they are to be accepted or rejected. At present our 
usage wavers. The A. O.U. rejects most of his names, on the ground 
that he was not a strict binomialist; yet it accepts the term Afphelocoma 
Jloridana for the Jay named Corvus floridanus by Bartram, Trav., p. 291. 
Let us at least be consistent, if we cannot be just! Withregard to generic 
names, if Bartram was not very orthodox in binomiality, neither was 
Brisson, whose heterodoxy in this particular does not prevent us from 
adopting his genera; and the jewel of consistency requires us to treat both 
these authors alike. On p. 290zs of this book Bartram names the 
genus Zucar, with formal indication of its type species, Z. Zévzdus. This 
brings the case distinctly within our rules regarding generic names, 
whether properly ‘characterized’ or not, and disposes of the apparent 
objection that it is a nxomen nudum. For this bird is of course the 
well-known Catbird, Bartram’s specific name of which is the obvious 
origin of Zurdus lividus, Wilson, 1810. Bartram’s /7v¢dus is antedated by 
carolinensis Linn., 1766; but his Lucar antedates Galeoscoptes Cab., 1850. 
As the Catbird is now removed from the genus A@zmus, its only tenable 
name would appear to be Lucar carolinensts Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad., 1875, 
p- 349-— ELLiotT Covues, Washington, D. C. 
Breeding of the Carolina Wren (Zkryothorus ludovicianus) on Long 
Island, N. Y—On the 20th of March, 1896, I heard a Carolina Wren in 
a swamp near my home in Roslyn, Queen’s Co.,N. Y. Knowing it to be 
rare on Long Island I decided to watch it as closely as possible, hoping 
it might have a mate. 
The village of Roslyn is situated at the head of Hampstead Harbor, 
and is shut in by hills on three sides. There are three ponds in the vil- 
lage, a few hundred feet apart, with swamp land between, and being ina 
row, one above the other, they divide the village in two parts. Between 
the highest pond and the second one is a swamp three or four acres in 
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