1890. ] Second Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. 61 
of Natural History, on the day following the close of the Seventh 
Congress of the Union, and formulated the following report. A 
few questions were deferred for want of the necessary data to en- 
able the Committee to reach satisfactory decisions. 
In accordance with the wishes of the Council, the Committee. 
in the case of the rejection of proposed changes or additions, gives 
its reasons for considering them inadmissible. 
The present supplement therefore consists of I, Addztzons; I, 
Eliminations ; 1, Changes of Nomenclature ; 1V, Species and 
subspecies considered as not entitled to recognition. The num- 
bers at the left of the name facilitate collation with the Check-List. 
The interpolated species and subspecies are numbered in accord 
ance with the provisions made therefor in the Code of Nomencla- 
ture. (See page 14, last paragraph.) 
je ACe ern 
WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
ELLiottT Cougs. 
RoBERT RipGway. 
Joun H. Sace. 
EeADDITIONS, 
134 a. Anas fulvigulamaculosa (SENN.). 
Mottled Duck. 
Anas maculosa SENNETT, Auk, VI, July, 1889, 263. 
[B 577, part, C 489, part, R 602, part, C 708, part. ] 
Has. Eastern Texas and north to Kansas. 
292 6. Oreortyx pictus confinis ANTHONY. 
San Pedro Partridge. 
Oreortyx picta confints ANTHONY, Proc. Cal. Ac. Scim@d: 
sere II? Oct-71, 1850, 74- 
peg Ce eo Oey 
Has. San Pedro Mountains, Lower California. 
