380 Sixteenth Supplement to the A. 0. U. Check-List. [july- 



SIXTEENTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN 

 ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNIOxN CHECK-LIST OF 

 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



This constitutes the first supplement since the pubHcation of the 

 third edition of the Check-List in 1900, and inchides all cases of 

 proposed additions to the Check-List which were considered at the 

 meeting of the Committee held in Washington, D. C, April 24-26, 

 1912. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Committee adopted at the 

 previous meeting, cases of proposed changes in the Check-List 

 based upon purely nomenclatural grounds while considered and 

 acted upon by the Committee will not be published for the present. 

 The object of this action is to maintain the stability of the names 

 of the new Check-List and make no nomenclatural changes until 

 a reasonable test of time has shown the necessity for them. 



J. A. Allen, Chairman. 

 Charles W. Richmond, Secretary. 

 William Brewster. 

 Committee \ Jonathan Dwight. Jr. 

 C. Hart Merriam. 

 Robert Ridgway. 

 Witmer Stone. 



I. Additions to the Check-List. 



p. 53. After Puffinus auricularis insert 



PufRnus carneipes Gould. Pale-footed Shearwater. [95.1.] 



Puffinus carneipes Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII, May, 

 1844, 365 (Small islands off Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia). 



Range.- — Australian and New Zealand Seas, northward to 

 Japan and casually to the coast of California. 



