168 Seventh Supplement to the A, O. U. Check-List. AM 
Genus Nucifraga Brisson, 
Nucifraga Brisson, Orn. Il, 1760, 58. Type, . caryocatactes. 
Hence No. 491, Picicorvus columbianus (WILs.) becomes 
Nucifraga columbiana (WiILs.). 
Nucifraga columbiana Aup. Orn. Biog. IV, 1834, 459. 
y26a. Certhia familiaris mexicana (GLOoGER), This 
becomes 
Certhia familiaris alticola MILLEr. 
Certhia familiaris alticola MILLER, Auk, XII, April, 1895. 
ls ELIMINATIONS. 
289 ¢ Colinus virginianus cubanensis (GouLp). Found 
to be extralimital. Cf Rrpeway, Auk, XI, Oct. 1894, 324. 
767. Sialia mexicana Swatns. ‘Found to be extralimital. 
Cf. Ripeway, Auk, XI, April, 1894, 151-154. 
IV. FORMS CONSIDERED AS NOT ENTITLED TO 
RECOGNITION. 
Oceanodroma townsendi RivGw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1893, 687. 
Since the description of this species the type has been com- 
pared by Mr. Osbert Salvin with the type of Zza/assidroma melania 
Bonap., in the Paris Museum, and found not to be different. 
Vireo huttoni insularis Ruoavs, Auk, X, July, 1893, 239. 
x 
Considered as not separable from 7. 4. ebscurus ANTHONY. 
V. PROPOSED CHANGES OF NOMENCLATURE 
REJECTED. 
[253. Totanus nebularius (GUNN.) vs. Z. dittorea Linn. Cf 
ReicuEenow, J. f. O. r889, 188. The Committee, on carefully 
reviewing the question, finds no reason for changing its former 
decision in the matter. 
