352 Fourteenth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. [f^M 



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II. ELIMINATIONS. 



1 (Hypothetical List), ^chmophorus clarkii (Lawrence). A 

 synonym of /E. occidentalis. 



8 (Hypothetical List). Cepphus carbo Pallas. Not North Ameri- 



can. 



42.1. Larus barrovianus Ridgway. Equivalent to L. glaucvs 

 ( = L. lujperhorens). (Cf. Dwight, Auk, XXIII, 1906, 29.) 



94. Puffinus fuliginosus Strickland. Equivalent to P. griseus 

 (Gmelin). {Cf. Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV, 1896, 



386.) 



Subgenus SULA and Subgenus DYSPORUS are to be removed. 



7 (Hv'pothetical List). Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pallas. No 

 evidence of its occurrence in North America. 



133a. Anas obscura rubripes Brewster. Equivalent to No. 133. 

 (See No. 133, under 'Changes of Nomenclature.') 



173. Branta bemicla (Linn.eus). Not North American, its 

 place in the List being filled by No. 173a. 



9 (Hx-jDothetical List). Ardea wuerdemanni Baird. Removed 



from the List as being in all probability a hybrid between A. 

 occideniaUs and A. wardi. 



10 (H^-jDothetical List). Ardea (Dichromanassa) pealei Bona- 



parte. This is eliminated as a color phase of Dichromanassa 

 rujescens. 



277a. .ffigialitis meloda circumcincta Ridgway. Equivalent to 

 No. 277. (C/. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 

 294.) 



304a. Lagopus leucurus altipetens Osgood. Not separable from 

 No. 304. 



