"lobs J Fourteenth Supplement to the A. 0. U. Check-List. 365 



Subgenus CRECISCUS Cabanis. This becomes 



Genus CRECISCUS Cabanis. 



Creciscus Cabanis, Journ. f. (3rn., 1856, 428. Type, Rallus 

 jamaicensis Gaielin. 



216. Porzana jamaicensis (Gmelin). This becomes 

 216. Creciscus jamaicensis (Gmelin). 



No. 216.1 is now recognized as the western representative of the 

 above, under the name 



216.1. Creciscus cotumiculus (Ridgway). {Cf. Brewster, Auk, 

 XXIV, 1907, 205-210.) 



Genus CRYMOPHILUS Vieillot. This becomes 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson. 



Phalaropus Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 12. Type, Tringa 

 fulicaria Linn.eus. 



222. Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.eus). This is changed to 



222. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linn.eus). 



Genus PHALAROPUS Brisson, of the Check-List, becomes 



Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 



Lobipes Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 1817, 495. Type, Tringa 

 lobata Linn.eus. 



No. 223 thus becomes 



223. Lobipes lobatus (Linn.eus). 



The above changes in the family Phalaropodidae are explained 

 by Stone (.\uk, XXIV, 1907, 196), and Allen (Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H., XXIII, 1907, 315). 



