SIXTEENTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN 
ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION CHECK-LIST OF 
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Tuis constitutes the first supplement since the publication of the 
third edition of the Check-List in 1900, and includes all cases of 
proposed additions to the Check-List which were considered at the 
meeting of the Committee held in Washington, D. C., April 24-26, 
1912. 
In accordance with a resolution of the Committee adopted at the 
previous meeting, cases of proposed changes in the Check-List 
based upon purely nomenclatural grounds while considered and 
acted upon by the Committee will not be published for the present. 
The object of this action is to maintain the stability of the names 
of the new Check-List and make no nomenclatural changes until 
a reasonable test of time has shown the necessity for them. 
J. A. ALLEN, Chairman. 
CuarLEs W. RicuMonp, Secretary. 
WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
Committee , JONATHAN Dwiacut, JR. 
C. Hart MEeERRIAM. 
Rosert Rrpaway. 
WITMER STONE. 
I. ADDITIONS TO THE CHECK-—LIST. 
p. 538. After Puffinus auricularis insert 
Puffinus carneipes Goutp. Pale-footed Shearwater. [95.1.| 
Puffinus carneipes Goutp, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII, May, 
1844, 365 (Small islands off Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia). 
RanGe.— Australian and New Zealand Seas, northward to 
Japan and casually to the coast of California. 
