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Oreopeleia ] 



Chlorcenas > Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., VII. 

 Patagioenas j 



Hierofalco, B. O. U., List of British Birds. 



Cerchneis, Chapman, Bull. A. M. N. H., XXXIV, p. 363. Cory, Field 

 Mus. N. H., I, No. 9, p. 303. 



Megaceryle 1 Miller. 



Chloroceryle J Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., VI. 



Balanosphyra 



„, . , Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., VI. 



Phrenopicus J '^ - ' 



Trogonurus 1 j^jj ^^^.^^ ^_ ^^^ Mi^ j^^^j. y. 



Nephoecetes j * ■" 

 Corthylio, Miller, Auk, 1915, p. 234. 



III. Forms which it is proposed to reject. 



Ixobrychus neoxenus, a melanistic phase of /. exilis. Bangs, Auk, 1915, 



p. 483. 

 Ardea herodias wardi. 

 Ardea wurdemanni, both of these are phases of A. h. occidejitalis. Bangs, 



Auk, 1915, p. 484. 

 Falco rusticolus rusticolus 

 Falco r. gyrfalco Hartert considers all the American Gyrfalcons referable 



to F. r. candicans (N. A. and Greenland) and F. r. obsoletus (Labrador). 



Novit. Zool. XXII, pp. 167-185. 

 Strix occidentalis caurina = S. o. occidentalis. Oberholser, Proc. U. S. 



N. M., 49, p. 251. 

 Otus flammeolus idahoensis = 0. f. flammeolus. Ridgway, Birds N. and 



Mid. Amer., VI. 

 Cryptoglaux acadicus scotaeus = C. acadicus. Ridgway, Birds N. and 



Mid. Amer., VI. 

 Coccyzus minor minor = C. m. maynardi, so far as North American 



records are concerned. Ridg^vay, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., VII. 

 Phalaenoptilus nuttalli nitidus = P. n. nutlalli. Ridgway, Birds N. 



and Mid. Amer., VI. 

 Uranomitra is united with Amizilis. Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. 



Amer., V. 

 Melospiza melodia morphna = M. m. rufina. Swarth, Univ. Cal. Publ. 



Zool., 10, No. 1, p. 61. 

 Dendroica caerulescens cairnsi = D. ccendescens. Eifrig, Auk, 1915, 



p. 108. 

 Geothlypis trichas arizela = G. t. occidentalis. Grinnell, Pulil. Zool. 



Univ. Cal., 12, No. 4, p. 202. 



