300 Tenth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check- List. [^^j^ 



Syrnium nelnilosiDu hehcolii77i Bangs, Proc. N. Engl. Zool. 

 Club, I, 1899, 31. 



[B — , C — , R 397^ part^ ^ Ml part.] 



Geog. Dist. — Southern Texas. 



375rt'. Bubo virginianus pallescens Stone. 

 Western Homed Owl. 



Biihfl 7'irgitiianus pallescens Stone, Am. Nat. March, 1897, 

 236. 



This is a new name for Bubo vi7-gi?iianus subardicus (Hoy) of 

 the Check-List, siibarcticiis being a synonym of B. v. arcticus 

 (Swains.). Cf. Eighth Suppl., Auk, XIV, 1897, 134. 



Genus RHYNCHOPSITTA Bonap. 



Rhynchopsitta Bonap. Rev. et Mag. Zool. VI, 1854, 149. 

 Type, Macrocercus pacJiyrhynchiis Swains. 



382.1. Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha (Swains.). 

 Thick-billed Parrot. 



Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swains. Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 439. 

 Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha Bonap. Rev. et Mag. Zool. VI, 

 1854, 149. 



Geog. Dist. — Central Mexico, northward, casually, to the 

 Chiricahua Mountains. (C/. Lusk, Condor, II, 1900, 129.) For- 

 merly No. 16 of the Hypothetical List (Check-List, 2d ed., p. 



401^-. Picoides americanus alascensis (Nelson). This 

 becomes 

 Picoides americanus fasciatus Baird. 

 Picoides americanus var. fasciatus Baird, Cooper's Bds. Cal. 



I, 1870, 385. 

 Picoides a. alascensis proves to be a synonym of P. a. fascia- 

 tus, of earlier date. {Cf. Bangs, Auk, XVII, April, 1900, 

 128, 132.) 



