SECOND APPENDIX. 



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greater amount of white on the under primary 

 coverts. Both coasts of Lower California. 

 Brewster, Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 84. 



No. 614 his, p. 886. Tringa damascensis, 

 the Long-toed Stint, which I admitted to the 

 3d edition of the Key, 1887, though the 

 Union List of 1886 declined it, has been 

 reaffirmed by the Committee. See Ridgway, 

 Auk, April, 1886, p. 275, and Man. N. A. 

 Birds, 1887, p. 158. 



No. 632 his, p. 887. Symphemia semipal- 

 mata inornata, admitted in the third edition 

 of the Key, is confirmed by the Committee. 



Nos. 636, 637, p. 639. The name of the 

 genus Rhyacophilus is changed to Helodro- 

 mas, Kaup, Naturl. Syst., 1829, p. 144. 



No. 663 a, p. 662. Add: Butorides vires- 

 cens frazari. Frazar's Gkeen Heron. 

 Larger than B. virescens; darker colored and 

 more uniform in color ; neck more purj^lish, 

 its sides as well as the forehead strongly 

 glaucous; the light throat line more re- 

 stricted. Wing 7.00; tarsus 2.25; culmen 

 2.50. From Lower California, in the vicinity 

 of La Paz. Ardea virescens frazari, Brewster, 

 Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 83. 



No. 665, p. 663. The name of the genus 

 Nyclerodius (or Nyctherodius) is changed to 

 Nyctinassa, Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1887, p. 295. 



No. 667 his, p. 888. Ardetta neoxena is 

 confii-med by the Committee as a valid spe- 

 cies, and as a North American bird, under 

 the name Botawus neoxenus. For later re- 

 ferences to this interesting Rail-bittern, see 

 Cory, Auk, July, 1886, p. 408 ; Ridgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 127. 



No. 672, p. 669. Parra gymnostoma be- 

 comes Jacana spinosa, Elliot, Auk, July, 



1888, p. 297. (After Fulica spinosa, Lin- 

 naeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 152.) 



No. 673, p. 



Rallus longirostris crepi- 



tans is changed to R. crepitans ; similarly, — 

 No. 675, p. 672. Rallus longirostris saturatus 

 is changed to Rallus crepitans saturatus ; also, 

 Rallus longirostris scottii is changed to Rallus 

 scottii. See Sennett, Auk, April, 1889, p. 

 165. 



No. 675 a, p. 672. Add : Rallus longirostris 

 scotti. Scott's Rail. Described by Sen- 



nett from western Florida in the Auk, July, 

 1888, p. 305, and approved by the Committee 

 as a good species. It is later described in the 

 following terms: "Bill slender, decurved, 

 and compressed; uj^per parts sooty brown 

 or black edged slightly with olive-gray; un- 

 der parts dark ashy-gray mixed more or less 

 with cinnamon ; axillary and flanks slate- 

 color, barred distinctly with white." For 

 a synopsis of the several related species, see 

 Sennett, Auk, April, 1889, p. 165. 



No. 675 b, p. 672. Rallus longirostris cari- 

 hceus [lege carihbivus], described in 1880 by 

 Mr. Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, July, 

 1880, p. 140, is now recognized by the Com- 

 mittee as North American, and its habitat 

 assigned as West Indies and the Gulf of 

 ^Mexico, north to Texas. 



No. 694, p. 685. Chen coeridescens, which 

 I have retained throughout my editions, is 

 now removed from the hypothetical list and 

 restored to full standing. 



No. 709 a, p. 692. Add: Anas ohscura 

 maculosa. Mottled Duck. ^ top of 

 head blackish-brown, the feathers edged with 

 pale buff; chin and throat Isabella color; 

 cheeks buffy-white with narrow dark-brown 

 streaks ; breast, wings, upper parts, and 

 flanks blackish-brown, the feathers margined 

 with pale buff; under parts buffy-white, each 

 feather with a broad blackish-brown sjiot 

 near the tip ; under tail-coverts blackish 

 varied with whitish and reddish buff ; four 

 middle tail feathers blackish- brown, others 

 fuscous edged with pale buff, having a 

 V-shaped mark as in A. fulvigula ; lining 

 of wing white ;' speculum purple tipped with 

 white ; feet reddish-orange; bill with a .small 

 black spot on base of lower edge of upper 

 mandible, lacking in the female. Sexes 

 otherwise alike. A subspecies of the Dusky 

 Duck which seems entitled to recognition. 

 It occurs from eastern Texas to Kansas. 

 It was originally described by Sennett as 

 Anas maculosa, Auk, July, 1889, p. 263; 

 and in the Second Supplement of the 

 Union List, 1890, it is called A. fulvigula 

 ohscura. 



No. 734, p. 712. Somateria moUissima 

 dresseri becomes S. m. borealis, A. E. Brehm. 



