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THE OOLOGIST. 



fous-crested Ducks. Ward's Heron, Beld- 

 ing's Rail, European Coot, Mongolian 

 Plover, Grayson's Bobwhite, Masked Bob- 

 white Chestnut-bellied Scaled Partridge, 

 Valley Partridge, Canadian Ruffed 

 Grouse, five Ptarmigans, namely, iVllen's, 

 Rienliardt's, Nelson's, Turner's, and 

 Welch's; Prairie Sharptailed Grouse, Heath 

 Hen, Florida Redshouldered Hawk, Short- 

 tailed Hawk, European Rough leggedHawk, 

 California Screech Owl, Alaskan three-toed 

 Woodpecker, Northwestern Flicker, 

 Stephen's Whip-poor-will, Blue-throated 

 Hummingbird, Arizona Crested Flycatcher, 

 Olivaceous Flycatcher, Ridgway's Fly- 

 catcher, five subspecies of Horned Lark, 

 namel3^ Prairie, Desert, Texan, Ruddy 

 and Streaked. We now have a Florida 

 Blue Jay, as well as the old Florida Jay, 

 Labrador Jay, Western Bobolink, Arizona 

 Hooded Oriole, McKay's Snowflake, 

 Worthen's Sparrow, Baird's Junco, Mexi- 

 can Sparrow, Rock Sparrow, Stephen's 

 Vireo, Mangrove Warbler, Belding's Yel- 

 lowlliroat. Western Yellowthroat, Swin. 

 hoe's Wagtail, Red-throated Pipit, Ashy 

 Titmouse, California Bush Tit, Gruida's 

 Bush Tit, Willow Thrush, and Azure 

 Bluebird from Arizona. 



The changes of Common Names are 

 numerous, the following were noticed : 

 The Thickbilled Grebe changed to Pied- 

 billed Grebe ; Pacific and Redthroated 

 Divers are now both Loons, the Auks 

 from 746 to 751 are hereafter Auklets, the 

 Guillemots from 753 to 759 are Murrelets, 

 the Black and Pigeon Guillemots retain their 

 names, the Common, California and 

 Brunich's are Murres, while the Thick- 

 billed Guillemot becomes Pallas's Murre ; 

 Richardson's Jaegar to Parasitic Jaegar, 

 Noddy Tern is simply "Noddy," and 

 Common Cormorant is "Cormorant," Fri- 

 gate Pelican, known now as Man-o-war 

 bird, Redbreasted Rail as King Rail, Red- 

 breasted Snipe as Dowitcher, Sora Rail 

 simply Sora, Redbellied Snipe becomes 

 Long-billed Dowitcher, Bartram's Sand- 

 piper as Bartramian Sandpiper, three 

 Quails are now known as Bobwhite, 

 Florida Bobwhite, and Texan Bobwhite ; 



all the Quails before 481 and 485 are Par- 

 tridges — the word Quail is not in use at 

 all — Turkey Buzzard is Turkey Vulture, 

 Iceland Gyrfalcon becomes Gray Gyrfal- 

 cou, Labrador Gyrfalcon is Black Gyrfal- 

 con, while McFarlane's is simply Gyrfal- 

 con ; Caracara Eagle to Audubon's Cara- 

 cara, Lapland Owl to Lapp Owl, Screech 

 Owl, — the word "little" is dropped — 

 Whitney's Pygmy Owl to Elf Owl, Savan- 

 nah Blackbird to "Ani," Groove-billed 

 Crotophaga to G. B. Ani. We now have 

 two subspecies of Hairy Woodpecker, viz : 

 Northern and Southern, Common Crow 

 changed to American Crow, Yellow 

 shafted Flicker to plain "Flicker," Par- 

 augue Goatsucker is simply "Paraugue,'' 

 the Western Kingbird again takes on 

 "Arkansas," and now poses as the Arkan- 

 sas Kingbird, the Sulphur-bellied Fly- 

 catcher instead of Henshaw's Flycatcher, 

 Great crested Flycatcher has the "Great" 

 omitted ; we now have Phoebe. Say's. 

 Phcebe and Black Pho3be in place of 

 Pewee, the Western Yellow-bellied Fly- 

 catcher is now Baird's Flycatcher, all the 

 Shore Larks are Horned Larks, Black- 

 billed i\Iagpie is simple Magpie, in place 

 of the three ridiculous shouldered Black- 

 bird's names, we now have Redwinged, 

 Bicolored, and Tricolored ; the Rosy 

 Finches have adopted the Latin, and are 

 all Leucosticte, the Pine Goldfinch is Pine 

 Siskin, Snow Bunting becomes euphoni- 

 ously Snowflake, Grass Finch changed to 

 Vesper Sparrow, Intermediate and Gam- 

 bel's have the words ' ' white crowned " 

 omitted, all the Snowbirds are Junco's, and 

 our little winter friend is hereaf tter to be 

 called Slate-colored Junco ; California 

 Song Sparrow now has Samuels instead of 

 California, the Grosbeaks are now all Car- 

 dinals, and we now have a new bird known 

 as Arizona Cardinal ; Blackfaced Seedeater 

 changed to Gra.ssquit, Black-throated 

 Bunting to Dickcissel, White-bellied Swal- 

 low to Tree Swallow, Blackcrested Fly- 

 catcher to Phainopepla. Some radical and 

 very sensible changes have been made in 

 the names of Warblers, thus. Blue Yellow- 

 backed to Parula Warbler, Summer Yel- 



