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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 "Richmond, 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. Richmond, Secretary. 

 William Brewster. 

 Committee. \ Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 

 C. Hart jNIerriam. 

 Robert Ridgway. 

 WiTMER Stone. 



