132 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. fan 
7260, Certhia familiaris alticola Mitirr. This becomes 
Certhia familiaris albescens (Brr_epscn). 
Certhia mexicana albescens BE RLEPSCH, Auk, V, Oct. 1888, 
450. 
Certhia familiaris albescens OBERHOLSER, Auk, XIII, Oct. 1896, 
315. 
739. Parus cinctus obtectus (Can.). This becomes 
Parus cinctus alascensis (Il’RAZAK). 
Pecila cincta alascensis PRAZAK, Orn. Jahrb. VI, March—April, 
1895, 92. 
TéGa. Sialia sialis azurea (Swains.). ‘The authority should be 
changed to Barrp, as given in the first reference under this 
name in the Check-List, 2d ed. p. 322. (But “1884” in the 
reference should be 1864.) (Cf Ripcway, Man. N. Am. Bds. 
1887, 581.) 
[lIL.— CONSIDERED AS NOT ENTITLED. TO \RECOG— 
NITION. 
Callipepla gambelii deserticola Srrernens, Auk, XII, Oct. 
1895, 37 Ts 
Considered as not separable from Cadldipepla gambelit (GAMB.). 
Bubo virginianus occidentalis Sronr, Auk, XIII, Apr. 
1896, 155. 
Not admitted, on the ground that the type, from Mitchell 
County, Lowa, proves to be an intergrade between #. virginianus 
and A. wv. arcticus, and not the interior form which Mr. Stone in- 
ended to recognize. 
Melanerpes formicivorus aculeatus Mearns, Auk, VII, 
July, 1890, 249. (Cf. Third Supplement A. O. U. Check-List, in 
Auk, Jan. 1891, 88, and RrpGway, Man. N. Am. Bds. 2d ed. 1896, 
597). ‘This is now referred to AZedanerpes formicivorus (SWAINS.) . 
(Cf. antea, p. 120.) 
