108 Ninth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. a 
Meleagris gallopavo Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I, 1758, 156. 
[B 458, C 379, R470, C 553. 
Groc. * Dist. — Southwestern United States, from western 
Texas to Arizona; south over the tableland of Mexico. 
This is the main basis of the Linnawan name. 
3L0q, Meleagris gallopavo fera (Vibtit.). 
Wild Turkey. 
Meleagris fera Vie1LuL. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. IX, 1817, 447. 
Meleagris gallopavo fera Covers, Auk, XVI, Jan. 1899, 77. 
[Bas7,C 379¢, R4z7oa,C cca. | 
Groc, Disr, — Eastern United States, from southwestern Penn- 
sylvania to the Gulf Coast, and west to the Plains, along wooded 
river valleys; formerly north to southern Maine, southern Ontario, 
and up the Missouri River to North Dakota. 
310/. Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scorr. (Not changed.) 
310c. Meleagris gallopavo ellioti Sennerr. ‘This becomes 
Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Srnnerr. 
Meleagris gallopavo intermedia SENNETY, Bull. U. S. Geol. 
and Geog, Surv. Terr. V, No. 3, Nov. 1879, 428. 
The name ¢fermedia, proposed tentatively, has thirteen years 
priority over e//ioé7, both names being based on the same form. 
(Cf Cours, Auk, XIV, 1897, 275.) 
8207. Columbigallina passerina pallescens (Barirp). The 
concordance (cf Cours, Auk, XIV, April 1897, 215) should 
be corrected to read as follows: 
[B 453, part, C 374a, R 465, part, C 548.] 
$26. Catharista atrata (Barrr.). As Bartram was not 
strictly binomial in his nomenclature, it is inconsistent with 
the A. O. U. Code to recognize any of his names. (Cf 
CovuEs, Auk, XVI, Jan. 1899, 84.) Hence No. 326 becomes 
