744 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



J. A. Allen. Descriptions of new species of South American Birds, with remarks on 

 various other little-known species. 



Bull. Am. Mu8. Nat. Hist, n, No. 2, June 28, 1889, pp. 137-151. 



The new species described are as follows: (1) Thryothorus macrourus, p. 137, Bogota; (2) 

 Thryothorus longipes, p. 138, Ainbato, Ecuador ; (3) Platyrhynehus bifasciatus, p. 141, Cha- 

 pada, Mat to Grosso, Brazil ; (4) Platyrhynehus insular is, p. 143, Tobago; (5) Euscarthmus 

 ochropterus, p. 143, Cbapada, Motto Grosso, Brazil; (6) Sublegatus virescens, p. 149, Cha- 

 pada, Motto Grosso, Brazil; (7) Tliamnophilus doliatus mexicanus, p. 151, Mexico (name a 

 substitute for Thamophilus affinis, preoccupied). 



Other species treated are as follows: Porphyrospiza ccerulescens (Wied), p. 140 ; Mecocerculus 

 uropygialis, Lawr., p. 141: Euscarthmus pelzelni Scl., p. 143; Habrura sujjerciliaris (Wied), 

 p. 145 ; Habrura minima (Gould), p. 146; PhyUuMyiasincanescens(Wied), p. 147; Ornilhion 

 cinerascens (Wied), p. 148; Peristera mondetoura, Bon., p. 151. In addition to these im- 

 portant critical uotes are others with special titles, as follows: (1) Note on Thryothorus 

 "mystacalis " of the Kusby Collection, p. 139 (considered to be either " a very large, very 

 strongly colored example of T. genibarbis or else au undescribed form"); (2) Note on the 

 type of the Genus Habrura Cab. aud Heiue, p. 147 (type decided to be Pachyrhamphus 

 minimus Gould) ; (3) Note on Formicivora griseigula Lawr., p. 151 (which "proves . . 

 to be an immature Thryothorus coraya "). 



American Ornithologists' Union. Supplement | to the | Code of Nomenclature 

 aud Check-List | of | North American Birds | adopted by the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union | Prepared by | a Committee of the Union | | New York | Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, 1889, 8vo., pp. 23. 



As explained in the preface, it consists "of the tenable species and subspecies, genera aud 

 subgenera, added since the publication of the Cheek-List, together with any necessary 

 eliminations and valid changes in nomenclature made since the Check-List was issued." 

 The supplement here presented records the ruling of the Committee on about one hundred 

 •distinct questions, involving additions to the Check-List or changes in its nomenclature. 

 The matter is classified under three heads: I, Additions; II, Eliminations; III, Changes of 



Nomenclature. 

 The additions number twenty-three species, and forty-three subspecies, one genus, and three 

 subgenera. The. eliminations are two species and one subspecies. The changes in nomen- 

 clature are three affecting genera, two affecting subgenera, fifteen affecting species, and two 

 affecting subspecies. 

 The committee to whom the work was assigned by the Union consists of Messrs. Allen, 

 Brewster, Coues, Merriam, and Kidgway. Mr. Ridgway acted as the committee's secre- 

 tary, to whom also fell the greater part of the work of preparing the manuscript for print- 

 ing. (J. A. Allen, in The Auk, April, 1889, pp. 168, 169.) 

 American Ornithologists' Union. Check-List | of | North American Birds | ac- 

 cording to the Canons of Nomenclature | of the | American Ornithologists' Union 

 | | Abridged Edition | Revised | | Published by the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union | 1889, 8vo., pp. 71. 



The Abridged Check-List " contains only the scientific names, English names, concordance 

 and current numbers." The list of fossil birds contained in the original Check-List, how- 

 ever, has been omitted, and a list of introduced or naturalized Species has been added. 

 This addition of the Check-List is thus not only abridged, but revised to date. It is printed 

 on only one side of the paper, thus adapting it for use in labeling, or for the reception of 

 notes or additions. The preparation of the manuscript for this edition was made by Dr. 

 Merriam, at the request of the committee. He also supervised the printing and compiled 

 the list of " Naturalized Species," which task had been especially assigned to him by the 

 committee. 

 Collation of the abridged edition with the original Check-List and Supplement shows an 

 almost faultless correspondence, the only discrepancies of any importance being in the 

 numeration, where 420 c in the abridged edition should be 420 b, and 519 c should be 519 b. 

 The "Hypothetical List," however, has been renumbered, there having been here oue 

 elimination and two additions. (J. A. Allen, in The Auk, April, 1889, p. 169.) 

 W. O. Atwater. First Annual Report of the Storrs School Agricultural Experiment 



Station, Storrs, Connecticut, 1888, p. 104. 

 W. O. Atwater. Report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations. 



Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture, 1888, pp. 537-558. 

 W. O. Atwater. Organization of the Agricultural Experiment Stations in the 

 United States. 



Bull. Experiment Station, No. 1, U. S. Department of Agriculture, February, 1889, p. 82. 



