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name was inadvertently adopted by the Committee in the 
Ninth Supplement, but should now be replaced by 
sl0a. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (VIFILLoT). 
Meleagris silvestris VYEILLOT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., IX, 
1817, 447. 
Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris ALLEN, Auk, XIX, 1902, 420. 
[322.] Geotrygon chrysia (Bonaparte). The authority and 
reference should be corrected to 
[322.| Geotrygon chrysia Sarvapori. 
Geotrygon chrysia SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 
1893, 571 (ff. Rivty, Auk, 1902, 397). 
337¢. Buteo borealis lucasanus Ripncway. ‘This is found 
to be indistinguishable from Buéeo borealis calurus, and is to 
be eliminated. (Cf Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., 
RUT rg02,°83.) 
SuBGENUS TINNUNCULUS VIEILLOT. 
Tinnunculus VikiLtLot, Ois. Am. Sept., I, 1807, 39. ‘Type, 
by elimination, “alco columbarius LANNEUS. 
This should replace the subgenus #sa/on of the Check-List, 
and the subgenus Zimnunculus, for the Sparrow Hawks, will become 
SUBGENUS CERCHNEIS Bolr. 
Cerchneis Boir, Isis, 1826, 970. Type, Falco rupicolus 
DaupIN. (Cf. Howe, Contr. N. Amer. Orn., I, 1902, 28.) 
360a. Falco sparverius deserticolus Mearns. 
An earlier name for this subspecies is found in 
3604, Falco sparverius phaloena (Lesson), 
Tinnunculus phalena Lesson, Compl. Cfuyv. Buffon, XX, 
LO47, 270; 
