Additions, Subtractions, Emendations 



A. O. U., and amend Range of No. 304a. to read: "Alpine summits from central 

 Alaska, northern Yukon, and northwestern Mackenzie south to Cook Inlet re 

 gion, Kenai Peninsula and southern Yukon" (A. O. l.i. 



Page 120. After No. 302e. add: 302f. Dixon's Ptarmigan (L. r. dixoni). 



Resembling L. r. nelson i in corresponding plumage, "but much darker; in 

 extreme blackness of coloration nearly like Lagopus evermanni, but feathers of 

 chest and back more or less finely vermiculated with hazel." (Grinnell). 

 Range. — Islands near Sitka. 



Page 120. After No. 302d. add: 302e. Adak Ptarmigan (L. r. elunnherlaini). 

 Nearest L. r. towsendi but with finer vermiculations above, and with black bars 

 on neck and upper back reduced to very narrow bars or vermiculations. Grayest 

 of the Aleutian Ptarmigan. (Clark). 



Range. — Island of Adak, Aleutian Chain. 



Page 122. A change here in enumeration makes Merriam's Turkey No. 

 310, while the Wild Turkey (31. g. silresfris) becomes 310a. 



Page 125. After No. 316 add: 316a. Western Mourning Dove (Z. m. murgi- 

 nella). Similar to Z. in. earolinensis but paler. (Mearns', Auk, 1911, p. 490). 



Range. — "Pacific Coast and San Clemente Island east to Mississippi Valley" 

 (A. O. U. ). The range of No. 316 should be correspondingly restricted. 



Page 126. After No. 319 add: 319a. White-winged Dove (M. a. tnuleaui). 

 Similar to M. a. asiatica but "slightly larger, with a much longer bill and much 

 paler coloration" (Mearns, Auk, 1911, p. 489). 



Range. — "Lower California, southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and 

 southern Texas, south to Costa Rica. Casual in southeastern California and 

 Colorado; accidental in Washington" (A. O. U.). 



Page 126. No. 319 becomes "West Indian White-winged Dove (Melopclia 

 asiatica asiatica). Its Range includes Cuba and Jamaica, and it is of casual 

 occurrence in the Bahamas and Florida. 



Page 132. After No. 337d. add: 337e. Alaska Red-tail (B. b. alascensis). 

 Resembling B. b. calurus "but smaller throughout, and, keeping in consider- 

 ation the stage of plumage, dark areas blacker and more extended." $ W. 

 13.5; T. 7.67; ?W. 14.44; T. 8.69 (Grinnell). 



Range. — "Southeastern Alaska from Yakutat Bay to Admiralty Island and the 

 Sitka Islands" (A. O. U.). 



Page 138. After No. 360b. add: 360c. Little Sparrow Hawk (F. s. paulus). 

 Similar to No. 360 but smaller. $ W. 6.80; T. 4.12 $ W. 6.96; T. 4.00 (Howe). 

 Range. — Southern half of Florida. 



Page 140. No. 379 proves to be separable into southern and northern races. 

 The former retains the name Olaucidium gnoma gnoma, while the race of north- 

 ern Mexico and western United States, heretofore known by that name, becomes 



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