1 68 Sevoit/i Supplejneiit to the A. O. U. Chcck-Lht. [^^^'V, 



Genus Nucifraga Hrisson. 

 Nucifraga Brisson, Orn. II, 1760, 58. Type, N. caryocatades. 

 Hence No. 491, Picicorvus columbianus (Wils.) becomes 



Nucifraga columbiana (Wils.). 

 Nucifraga cohunhiana AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1834, 459. 



726 rt!. Certhia familiaris mexicana (Gloger). This 

 becomes 

 Certhia familiaris alticola Miller. 

 Certhia familiaris alticola Miller, Auk, XII, April, 1895. 



III. ELIMINATIONS. 



289 c. Colinus virginianus cubanensis (Gould). Found 

 to be extralimital. Cf. Ridgway, Auk, XI, Oct. 1894, 324. 



767. Sialia mexicana Swains. Found to be extralimital. 

 Cf. Ridgway, Auk, XI, April, 1894, 151-154. 



IV. FORMS CONSIDERED AS NOT ENTITLED TO 



RECOGNITION. 



Ocea/iodroma townsemii Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1893, 687. 



Since the description of this species the type has been com- 

 pared by Mr. Osbert Salvin with the type of Thalassidroma melania 

 Bonap., in the Paris Museum, and found not to be different. 



Vireo luittoni insularis Rhoads, Auk, X, July, 1893, 239. 

 Considered as not separable from V. h. ohscurus Anthony. 



V. PROPOSED CHANGES OF NOMENCLATURE 



REJECTED. 



[253.] Totajiiis nebularius (Gunn.) 7'^. T. littorea Linn. Cf. 

 Reichenow, J. f. O. 1889, 188. The Committee, on carefully 

 reviewing the question, finds no reason for changing its former 

 decision in the matter. 



