Auk 
Jan. 
126 Eighth Supplement to the A. QO. U. Check-List. 
The name Anas rudida WILSON (1814) is antedated by A. 
Jamaicensis GMELIN (1788). 
SusGenus STEGANOPUS Vieittor (Check-List, 2d ed. p. 83). 
This is raised to a full genus. No. 224 will hence stand as 
224. Steganopus tricolor Viet. 
Steganopus tricolor Vierii. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXXII, 
1819, 136. 
SunGENUS SQUATAROLA Cuvier (Check-List, 2d ed. p. gg). 
This is raised to a full genus. Hence No. 270 will stand as 
270. Squatarola squatarola (LINN.). 
Tringa squataro/a LINN. S. N. ed. to, 1758, 149. 
Sguatarola squatarola Cuv. Régne Anim. I, 1817, 467. 
[322.] Geotrygon martinica (LINN.). This becomes 
w Geotrygon chrysia Bonar. 
Geotrygon chrysia Bonar. Consp. Av. IT, 1854, 72. 
Geotrygon martinica (LINN.) is restricted to the Lesser Antilles. 
G. chrysia, a very different species, occurs in Cuba, Haiti, the 
Bahamas, and on the Florida Keys. (CG Satvaport, Cat. Bds. 
Br. Mus. XXI, 1893, pp. 570-572.) 
3944. Dryobates pubescens orececus Barcu. This becomes 
Dryobates pubescens homorus (Cab.). 
Dryobates homorus CABANtIS, Mus. Hein, pt. iv, 1863, 65. 
Dryobates pubescens homorus Ripcw. Man. N. Am. Bds. 2d 
ed. 1896, 597. 
422. Cypseloides niger (Gmet.). This becomes 
Cypseloides niger borealis (KrNNrerty). 
Cypselus borealis KENNERLY, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857, 
202. 
Cypseloides niger borealis Drew, Auk, II, Jan. 1885, 17. 
[B 108, part, C 270, R 350, part, C 404.] 
Gro. Dist.— Rocky Mountain region (Colorado), west to the 
Pacific coast; north to ,British Columbia, and south to Lower 
California, Mexico, and Costa Rica. 
