344 Fourteenth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. eae 
Richmond, who has placed freely at its disposal the results of years 
of bibliographic work made in connection with the preparation of 
an Index Catalogue to the generic and specific names of the birds 
of the world; some of these results are here for the first time pub- 
lished and are indicated as ““RicumMonp, MS.” ‘The Committee 
also wishes to acknowledge its indebtedness to him for compiling 
and arranging the present Supplement for publication. 
Covering as it does a long and prolific period, the present Supple- 
ment is necessarily voluminous, and in the interest of clearness of 
presentation has been divided into five categories, as follows: i 
Additions; II, Eliminations; III, Changes in Nomenclature, in- 
cluding Changes in Status; IV, Proposed Additions and Changes 
not Accepted; V, Deferred Cases. 
Great effort has been made during the last two meetings of the’ 
Committee to cover all the cases known to require consideration; 
as a result the list of ‘deferred cases’ has been reduced to a small 
number, and probably the greater part of these will be settled in 
time to be included in the new edition of the Check-List. 
The geographic ranges of the recently added species and sub- 
species have been omitted in the present Supplement, as a general 
revision of the ranges of all of the species and subspecies is now 
being made for the new edition of the Check-List. 
J. A. ALLEN, Chairman. 
CHARLES W. Ricumonp, Secretary. 
WiLuiAM BREWSTER. 
Committee. } JONATHAN DWIGHT, JR. 
C. Hart MERRIAM. 
Ropert Rrpe@way. 
WITMER STONE. 
