[From ‘Tue Aux,’ Vol. VII, No. 1, January, 18go. } 
SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN 
ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION CHECK-LIST 
OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
THe marrerR of publishing an annual supplement to the 
American Ornithologists’ Union Check-List of North American 
Birds was referred by the Union to the Council at the meeting of 
the Union held in Washington in 1888. At a meeting of the 
Council held in New York City, Nov. 11, 1889, the Council by 
unanimeus vote requested the Committee on Publications to pre- 
pare a report on the species, subspecies, and changes of nomen- 
clature proposed during the year (Nov. 1888 to Nov. 1889), to be 
published as the Second Supplement to the American Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union Check- List, in ‘The Auk,’ for January, 1890. 
In accordance with this authority the Committee on Publica- 
tions held a meeting for this purpose, at the American Museum 
