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ORNITHOLOGY.— Winter birds of East Goose Creek, Florida. R. W. 

 Williams. Auk 36: 45-56. 1919. 

 Field observations carried on in November, 191 7, on East Goose Creek, 

 Wakulla County, Florida, a narrow neck of shallow water situated twenty- 

 five miles southwest of Tallahassee, show this locality to be an excellent 

 one for birds. The present list of 90 species and subspecies, combined 

 with a similar list previously made by L,udlow Griscom, makes a total 

 of 1 1 1 species recorded in this immediate vicinity during the months of 

 November and December alone. The annotations of the present list 

 consist chiefly of remarks on habits and the local distribution of the 

 various forms. Harry C. Oberholser. 



ORNITHOLOGY .—Mtitanda ornithologica. VII. Harry C. Ober- 

 holser. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 32: 127-128. June 27, 1919. 

 The names of the following four species of South American birds 

 require to be changed because their present designations are preoccupied 

 by earlier homonyms. The species known as Attila cinereus (Gmelin), 

 therefore, becomes Attila rufus Lafresnaye; Knipolegus comatus (Lich- 

 tenstein) must stand as Knipolegus lophotes Boie; Euscarthmus gnlaris 

 (Temminck) becomes Euscarthmus rufilatus (Hartlaub) ; and Mimus 

 lividus (lyichtenstein) must bear the new name Mimus antelius. More- 

 over, the Chilean bird now known as Curaeus aterrimus (Kittlitz) has 

 an earlier name and must stand as Curaeus curaeus (Molina) . 



H. C. O. 



ORNITHOLOGY.— ATote^ on North American birds. VIII. Harry 

 C. Oberholser. Auk. 36: 406-408. July, 1919. 

 Investigation of the relationships of Anthus rube seen s (Tunstall) 

 proves that it is clearly but a subspecies of the Old World Anthus 

 spinoletta, and its name, therefore, should be Anthus spinoletta rubescens 

 (Tunstall). The Alaskan Acanthopneuste borealis kennicotti (Baird), 

 although not recognized by most recent authors, proves to be un- 

 doubtedly a good subspecies, differing from Acanthopneuste borealis 

 borealis in its somewhat smaller size and more grayish upper parts. 

 Although Salpinctes guadeloupensis Ridgway was originally described 

 as a subspecies of Salpinctes obsoletus, it is commonly considered a dis- 

 tinct species. A careful study of a large series of this and related forms 

 unquestionably substantiates Mr. Ridgway's opinion in regard to its 

 subspecific relationship. In all characters the two birds completely 



