=_Larus canus brachyrhynchus_ in Wyoming.=—A Wyoming specimen of _Larus canus brachyrhynchus_, a male in juvenal plumage, has for many years been in the collection of the Biological Survey, in the United States National Museum. It is No. 141395, U. S. Nat. Mus., and was taken on Lake Fork, a tributary of the Green River, at an altitude of 10,000 feet in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, on August 28, 1893, by Mr. Vernon Bailey. It has already been recorded incidentally (Cooke, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric, No. 292, October 25, 1915, p. 47), but owing to its importance it seems worthy of special notice in a place more accessible to ornithologists generally. It represents the easternmost record of _Larus canus brachyrhynchus_, and the only really interior occurrence of the species in the United States. For the change of the name of this bird from _Larus brachyrhynchus_ to _Larus canus brachyrhynchus_ see ‘The Auk,’ XXXVI, No. 1, January, 1919, p. 83.—HARRY C. OBERHOLSER, _Washington, D. C._
_Polysticta_ =Eyton versus= _Stelleria_ =Bonaparte=.—Mr. G. M. Mathews has recently (Austral Avian Record, III, No. 5, December 28, 1917, p. 123) advocated the use of the generic name _Stellaria_ Bonaparte for the species now known as _Polysticta stelleri_ (Pallas). The term _Stelleria_ is, of course, as he shows, not debarred from employment in zoölogy by the previous use of _Stellaria_ in botany; but he has apparently overlooked the fact that _Polysticta_ is _not_ preoccupied, since _Polysticte_ Smith (Illust. South Afr. Zoöl.), June [or later], 1836, does not invalidate _Polysticta_ Eyton (Catal. Brit. Birds), April, 1836, a fact to which Dr. C. W. Richmond long ago (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XVI, September 30, 1903, p. 128) called attention. It is evident, therefore, that the name of Steller’s Eider should remain _Polysticta stelleri_ (Pallas).—HARRY C. OBERHOLSER, _Washington, D. C._
=Further Record of the European Widgeon at Madison, Wis.=—On April 14, 1918, in the wide-water at the head of Lake Waubesa, four miles south of Madison, I was able to identify unmistakably a typical specimen of the European Widgeon (_Mareca penelope_) that was in the company of seventeen Baldpates (_Mareca americana_). The bird was drawn so close by my 40-power telescope that it covered one-third of the field and allowed close study.