The correct name for the Canadian Pine grosbeak

x9o2 -I General 2Votes.8 5 point.Under date of June 25, •895 (Londonderry, Vt.),I find: '• In Chapman's new ' ttandbook of the Birds of Eastern North A•nerica,' Dr. Dwight gives •-z•d-•-O?3 as the song of E. traillli [ = E. •. alnorum ].Hearing the song at a distance this smnmer I preferred Mr. Brewster's rendering kd-wt'•t.•,but, getting nearer to-day, I find Dr. Dwight's a pretty exact rendering, though I myself should put it w•-z•d-t03 , the %/5 very faint."(If it •vere not superfluous, I should like to compliment Dr. Dwight on the felicity of his descriptions and syllabifications of bird-songs.)The other passage is dated at Willoughby Lake, Vt., June •8, •896: "In a swampy place southeast of the house I saw two EmySidonax traœll&'alnorum, one of which, perhaps the male, had an emphatic k'weel which was new to me?I may add that I was no nearer this bird than I have often been, both before and since, to others uttering the familiar t•vo-syllabled song-note, and the difference between the two notes was so marked that there could have been no confusing them.--FRxNC•S}I.ALLEN, West J/½oxbtt ry, •ss.The Correct Name for the Canadian Pine Grosbeak.--Canadensœs(Brehm, •8S•),as the subspecific name for the eastern Pine Grosbeak is long antedated by Loxœa lettcura of Mfiller (Volls.Natm'syst.Suppl.undRegister-Band, •776, •5o), whose name, based on Buffoh's P1.Enl.•S5, fig.•, will have to be recognized.This for:n should properly be called Pœnlcola enuclealor leucura (Mfiller).--CHas.W. IgJas,•z'norr{on, D.C.The Labrador Savanna Sparrow.--I hay% since describing Passerculus savanna labradorœu& learned more from various sources of its range, habits, and migrations which seem of interest to present.The species inhabits Labrador as far north certainly as Port 3,lanvers, and probably further--though the bird is apparently most common on the southern Labrador.It is known as the 'Chipbird,' as are most of the small sparrows in the north, and is mentioned by all, I think, of the writers on the Labrador avifauna.I have examined nearly a hundred or more speci•nens of Passerctdus s. savanna frown Newfoundland and southward since describing the race, with the result that I find Newfoundland and Cape Breton birds approach most closely the Labrador race in measure-ment% as would be expected, one bird in particular from Cape Breton measuring, wing 2.87, bill .39X .24•which slightly overlaps the smallest Labrador bird •neasured.Two other specimens from Labrador have also been sent me from Bowdoin College, taken on the expedition to Labrador in •89•.Both birds, one a male, and one unsexed, were taken at Chateau Bay on July •4 and are in very worn breeding plmnage.The male measures, wing 2.86, tail •.83, tarsus .83,bill .42X .2.5.The other, wing 2.75, tail L87, tarst•s .8o,bill .4•X .24.On the migrations an occasionally very large Savanna Sparro•v has been noticed by observers and collectors, which are referable to this form, and I have in my collection Vol.XIX] x9o2 -I General 2Votes.8 5 point.Under date of June 25, •895 (Londonderry, Vt.),I find: '• In Chapman's new ' ttandbook of the Birds of Eastern North A•nerica,' Dr.

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