naar ig my Proposed Changes in the A. O. U. Check-List. 201 
fasciata Say). Recognized as a genus (cf. Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., No. 50, pt. VII, 1916, pp. 283-307). Includes the following 
North American species now in the genus Columba: 
Chlorcenas fasciata fasciata (Say). 
Chlorceenas fasciata viosce (Brewster). 
Chlorcenas flavirostris flavirostris (Wagler). 
-Patagicenas Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Végel, 1852, p. XXV (type, Columba 
leucocephala Linnzus). Recognized as a genus (cf. Ridgway, Bull. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, pt. VII, 1916, pp. 308-315). Includes the 
following North American species now in the genus Columba. 
Patagicenas leucocephala (Linnzus). 
Patagicenas squamosa (Bonnaterre). 
Melopelia asiatica mearnsi Ridgway. New subspecies. Ridgway, 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, May 27, 1915, p. 107 (5 miles north 
of Nogales, Ariz.). 
Chemepelia passerina bermudiana (Bangs & Bradlee) becomes 
Chemepelia passerina bahamensis Maynard (Chamepelia ba- 
hamensis Maynard, Amer. Exchange and Mart, III, 1887, p. 33), 
since the bird from the Bermuda Islands proves to be inseparable from 
that of the Bahama Islands. (Cf. Todd, Annals Carnegie Mus., VIII, 
1913, pp. 568-571.) 
Oreopeleia Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, 1852, p. XXV (type, Columba 
martinica Linnzeus). Recognized as a genus (cf. Ridgway, Bull. U. 5. 
Nat. Mus., No. 50, pt. VII, 1916, pp. 467-495). Includes the follow- 
ing North American species now in the genus Geotrygon: 
Oreopeleia chrysia (Salvadori). 
Oreopeleia montana (Linnzus). 
Hierofalco Cuvier. Recognized as a genus (cf. B. O. U. Committee, List 
Brit. Birds, 1915, pp. 147-148). Includes the following North Amer- 
ican species now in the genus Falco: 
Hierofalco rusticolus candicans (Gmelin). 
Hierofalco rusticolus obsoletus (Gmelin). 
Hierofalco mexicanus (Schlegel). 
Falco fuscocerulescens Vieillot becomes Falco fuscoccrulescens 
septentrionalis subsp. nov., Todd, Proc. Biol. Soe. Wash., XXIX, 
June 6, 1916, p. 98 (Fort Huachuea, Ariz.). 
Cerchneis Boie. Recognized as a genus (cf. Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. Hist., XXXIV, 1915, pp. 372-382). Includes the following 
North American species now in the genus Falco: 
Cerchneis tinnunculus (Linnzus). 
Cerchneis sparveria sparveria (Linnzus). 
Cerchneis sparveria phalzna (Lesson). 
Cerchneis sparveria peninsularis (Mearns). 
Cerchneis sparveria paula Howe and King. 
Cerchneis sparverioides (Vigors). 
Otus asio asio (Linnzus) becomes Otus asio nevius Gmelin (Strix 
