428 Proposed Changes in the A. 0. U. Check-List. [oct. 



Chor^eiles virginianus howelli, subsp. nov. Texas. Oberholser, Bull. 

 S6, U. S. Nat. Mils., p. 57. 



Chordeiles acutipennis inferior subsp. nov. Lower California. Ober- 

 holser, Bull. 86, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 109. 

 Mr. Ridgway (Birds N. and Mid. Amer., VI) endorses these two new 



races of Nighthawks. 



Setochalcis gen. nov. for the Whip-poor-will as distinct from the Chuck- 

 will's-widow; and, 



Chordeilidae fam. nov. for the Night Hawks. Oberholser, Bull. 86, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



Corvus brachyrhynchos paulus, subsp. nov. Alabama. Howell, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVI, p. 199. 



Perisoreus canadensis sanfordi subsp. nov. Newfoundland. Ober- 

 holser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, p. 49. 



Agelaius phceniceus aciculatus subsp. nov. Kern Co., Cal. Mailliard, 

 Condor, XVII, p. 13. 



Agelaius phceniceus nevadensis subsp. nov. Nevada. Grinaell, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVI, p. 107. 



Pinicola enucleator eschatosus subsp. nov. Newfoundland. Ober- 

 holser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, p. 5. 



Loxia curvirostra percna .subsp. nov. Newfoundland. Bent, Smithson. 

 Miscel. Collns., 60, No. 15, p. 1. 



Carduelis carduelis bermudiana subsp. nov. Bermuda. Kennedy, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, CXCI, p. 33. 



Melospiza melodia beata, subsp. nov. Enterprise, Fla. Bangs, Proc. 

 N. E. Zool. Club, IV, p. 85. 



Melospiza melodia acadica subsp. nov. Nova Scotia. Thayer and 

 Bangs, Proc. N. E. Zool. Cliil), V, p. 67. 



Pipilo maculata falcifer McGregor. 

 " " curtatus Grinnell. 



" " falcinellus subsp. nov. Interior California. The first 



two rejected races reestablished and it new one described. Swarth, 

 Condor, XV, No. 5, p. 168. 



Pipilo erythrophthalmus canaster subsp. nov. Alabama. Howell, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVI, p. 202. 



Dendroica coronata hooveri McGregor. 



Geothlypis trichas scirpicola Grinnell. 



Hirundo erythrogaster palmeri. 



Rejected races revived, Swarth, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-71. 



Toxostoma redivivum scnomse subsp. nov., Sacramento Valley, etc., 

 Grinnell, Distributional List of Birds of Cal. 



Nannus hiemalis semidiensis subsp. nov. Semidi Isl., Alaska. Brooks, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LIX, No. 5, p. 400. 



Salpinctes guadaloupensis proximus subsp. nov. San Martin Isl., 

 Lower California. Swarth, Condor, XVi, No. 5. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis dawsoni, subsp. nov. Sierra Nevada. Grin- 

 nell, Condor, 1913, p. 77. 



