384 Sixteenth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. eure 
Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens ANTHONY, Auk, XII, No. 4, Oct., 
1895, 347. (San Fernando, Lower California.) 
Rance.— Middle Lower California. 
c. Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi Ripaway. Mearns’s Gilded Flicker. 
[414b.] 
Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi Rripaway, Proce. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, 
Feb. 24, 1911, 32. (Quitovaquito, Arizona.) 
Ranau.— Extreme southwestern California, northern Lower California 
and southern Arizona south to southern Sonora. 
p- 250. Immediately after Spinus insert the following 
[Genus EMBERIZA LinnNavs. 
Emberiza Linnzws, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 176. Type, by subs- 
desig., Emberiza citrinella LiInNauS (Gray, 1840). 
Emberiza rustica Pauuas. Rustic Bunting. [601.1.] 
Emberiza rustica Pauuas, Reise Russischen Reichs, III, 1776, 165, 
698. (Valley of the Tirgutui, Dauria.) 
Rancer.— Northern Europe to eastern Siberia and Kamchatka, 
south to China in winter. Casual on Kiska Island, Alaska.] 
p. 255. Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus is subdivided, the 
form occupying the Great Basin region being known as 
e. Passerculus sandwichensis nevadensis GrinNELL. Nevada Sa- 
vannah Sparrow. [542d.] ; 
Passerculus sandwichensis nevadensis GRINNELL, Univ. Calif. Pub., 
Zool., V, No. 9, Feb. 21, 1910, 312. (Soldier Meadows, Humboldt 
Co., Nevada.) 
Rance.— Humboldt and Washoe counties, Nevada, and probably 
throughout the Great Basin, south in winter to the Colorado Desert and 
Los Angeles Co., California. 
p. 352. Penthestes rufescens rufescens is subdivided, the form 
occupying the extreme northern part of the range of the 
species being known as 
