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first greeting me near the eastern end of the bog, where I had left the 
roadway to investigate the source of some vigorous musical efforts on the 
part of a male Solitary Vireo whose song was then new to me. A short dis- 
tance in among the spruces brought me to the apparent home of these 
Warblers. 
Subsequent visits followed; agdl’s was as frequently in song and fully 
as difficult to find, for of the several heard but one was actually seen. So, 
too, a most careful search for the nest and eggs also proved of no avail, 
furnishing as it did to my mind, additional evidence of this bird’s secre- 
tive ways in this its chosen breeding home. 
With her network of innumerable lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks and 
swamps the northern part of Minnesota should furnish many such 
localities as this, and “in nesting time” a capital resort for the Con- 
necticut Warbler. 
With further investigation this will doubtless prove true of the pine 
land regions at least, and more particularly of those portions of the state 
falling within the limits of the Cold Temperate Subregion of Dr. Allen. 
Other occupants of the bog were the ever present Peabodies, a pair or two 
otf Vireo solitarius, some few specimens of the Purple Finch, anda number 
of high-colored males ot Dexdrotca blackburnie, making in all, as it was, 
a most interesting gathering, and comprising with the trees and plants 
a high-class picture of intrinsic worth, one’s admiration for which being 
easily sustained by the additional favored eftorts of that post-graduate 
minstrel of our northern woods, the Hermit Thrush. Now softly, now 
louder, those exquisitely sweet though melancholy strains would come 
at times from out the shadier depths of the deeper woods and darkened 
thickets not so close at hand.— Benjy. T. Gautt, Glex Ellyn, Illinois. 
Untenability of the Genus Sylvania Nutt. — My tacit acquiescence in 
our use of Sylvanda has hitherto been simply because I had no special 
occasion to notice the matter, and presumed that our Committee had 
found the name tenable by our rules. But a glance at Nuttall’s Man., I, 
1832, p. 290, where the name is introduced, shows that it can have no 
standing, being merely a new designation of Setophaga Sw. 1827, and 
therefore a strict synonym. Nuttall formally and expressly gives it as 
such, making it a subgenus (of Muscicapa) in the following terms: 
“ Subgenus. — SYLVANIA.* (Genus SETOPHAGA, Swainson.)” 
This is enough to kill it — say rather, the name is still-born; and why 
we ever undertook to resuscitate it passes my understanding. But let us 
assume, for a moment, that it looks alive, and see what the result will be. 
Nuttall puts in Sy/vanza birds of three modern genera: 1. The Redstart. 
2. The Hooded Warbler, etc. 3. The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 1. The 
Redstart is already type of Setofhaga Sw. 2. The Hooded Warbler, etc., 
are eliminated as Welsonza Bp., 1838, and Myzodioctes Aud., 1839. 3. 
Leaving “ by elimination ” the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher as type of Sylvania, 
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