SECOND APPENDIX. 



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No. 401, p. 454. Chordediles pnpctue minor 

 becomes Chordeiles virginUinus cliapniani, 

 (Seunett:MSS.),Coues, Auk, Jan. 1888, p. ;37. 



No. 410 bi>i, p. 46-2. Add: Trochilus 

 violijiigularis, Violet-throated Hum- 

 MiNCi-iiiKD. J adult : above, metallic golden 

 green; sides dull green; flanks less green, 

 the feathers tipped with brown; gorgelet 

 violet glancing to steel-blue; wings dusky 

 purplish with a buff line along the edge of 

 the manus, the coverts dull green ; primaries 

 broad to the tip, that of the first recurved ; 

 tail slightly forked; its feathers broad ex- 

 cept the last pair, which are narrowly linear ; 

 shafts of the outer pair abruptly angulated ; 

 middle feathers and base of second pair metal- 

 lic green : rest dusky purplish ; under tail- 

 coverts white with green spots. Length 3.60 ; 

 wing 1.80; tail 1.20; bill 0.75. Santa Bar- 

 bara, coast of southern California. Trochilus 

 violajuguJum [sic] Jeffries, Auk, April, 1888, 

 p. 168; A. O. U. Committee's Suppl. List, 

 1889, p. 10. 



No. 413 bis, p. 464. Add: Selasphorus 

 floresii. Floresi's Humming-bird. A 

 ^Mexican species which has also been found 

 in California near San Francisco. (Gould, 

 Mon. Troch., III., Sept. 1861, pi. 139 ; Trochi- 

 lus Jloresii (Loddiges), Gray, Handl., I., 1869, 

 p. 144; A. O. U. Committee's Suppl. List, 

 1889, p. 10. See Bryant, Forest and Stream, 

 June 24, 1886, p. 426.) 



No. 429 a, p. 476. Coccyzus (or Coccygus) 

 americanus occidentalis is described by Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 273, as 

 larger than C. americanus, with proportion- 

 ally larger and stouter bill. Its habitat is 

 given as the western United States, east 

 to New .Mexico and Colorado, north to 

 Oregon, and south over the table-lands of 

 Mexico 



No. 430 a, p. 476. Coccygus seniculus 

 maynardi is a subspecies inhabiting the 

 Bahamas and Florida Keys, possibly dis- 

 tinguishable from the ordinary Mangrove 

 Cuckoo. It appears to be somewhat smaller, 

 on an average, and paler buff on the under 

 parts. It was named as a full species by Mr. 

 Ridgway, Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 274, 

 and was reduced to a subspecies by Allen, 



with tlip approval of the Committee, under 

 the name Coccyzus minor maynardi. 



No. 434, p. 481. Picus scalaris is changed 

 to Dryohales scalaris bairdi (after Picus 

 bairdi, Sclater, in Malherbe's Mon. Pic, 

 1861, p. 118, pi. 27). 



No. 437. p. 482. Picus slricklandi is 

 changed to Dryobates arizonae, Ridgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 286 (after Picus 

 arizonce, Hargitt, Ibis, April. 1886, p. 115). 



No. 439 bis, p. 483. Add: Picus villosus 

 hyloscopus. (P. hyloscopus, Cabanis and 

 Heine, Mus. Hein., IV., pt. ii., 1863, p. 69; 

 Dryobates villosus hyloscopus, Brewster, Auk, 

 July, 1888, p. 252). This is the white-bellied 

 race of Harris's Woodpecker which occurs 

 in most parts of the western United States 

 and southward into Mexico, as distinguished 

 from the smoky-bellied form from the north- 

 west coast. The distinction is noted in the 

 Key, p. 483, and I am inclined to think it 

 worthy of recognition by name. 



No. 441, p. 483. The Committee decline 

 to recognize Dryobates pubescens fumidus of 

 Maynard, Ornith. and Ool., April, 1889, p. 

 58, which they regard as a synonym of 

 gairdneri. 



No. 441 a, p. 483. Add: Picus pubescens 

 oreoecus. Batchelder's Woodpecker. 

 Described by Mr. C. F. Batchelder in the 

 Auk, July, 1889, p. 253, as Dryobates pubescens 

 oreoecus, from the Rocky Mountain region 

 of the United States. As compared with 

 pubescens or gairdneri, it seems to offer a 

 parallel case with that of hyloscopus, and the 

 Committee have probably been right in re- 

 cognizing it in the Second Supplement. 



No. 458, p. 569. Under the name Colum- 

 bigallina passerina pallescens, this pale form of 

 the Ground Dove, which I have doubtfully 

 kept in all the editions of the Key, and which 

 was rejected by the Committee in 1886, is 

 restored in the Supplementaiy List of 1889, 

 with the assigned habitat of Mexico and ad- 

 jacent border of the United States from Texas 

 to Aiizona. It was originally described by 

 Baird in 1859 as Chamrrpelia passerina ? var. 

 pallescens, from Cape St. Lucas, according to 

 my recollection of the original Xantus speci- 

 mens which I examined in that year. 



