384 Sixteenth Supplement to the A. 0. U. Check-IAst. [july 



Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens Anthony, Auk, XII, No. 4, Oct., 

 1895, 347. (San Fernando, Lower California.) 



Range. — Middle Lower California. 



c. Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi Ridgway. Mearns's Gilded Flicker. 



[4146.] 



Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, 

 Feb. 24, 1911, 32. (Quitovaquito, Arizona.) 



Range. — Extreme .southwestern California, northern Lower California 

 and southern Arizona south to southern Sonora. 



p. 250. Immediately after Spinus insert the following 



[Genus EMBERIZA Linn^us. 



Emheriza Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 176. Type, by subs 

 desig., Emheriza citrinella Linn^us (Gray, 1840). 



Emberiza rustica Pallas. Rustic Bunting. [601. L] 



Emheriza rustica Pallas, Reise Russischen Reichs, III, 1776, 165, 

 698. (Valley of the Tirgutui, Dauria.) 



Range. — Northern Europe to eastern Siberia and Kamchatka, 

 south to China in winter. Casual on Kiska Island, Alaska.] 



p. 255. Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus is subdivided, the 

 form occupying the Great Basin region being known as 



e. Passerculus sandwichensis nevadensis Grinnell. Nevada Sa- 

 vannah Sparrow. [542d.] 

 Passerculus sandwichensis nevadensis Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub., 

 Zool., V, No. 9, Feb. 21, 1910, 312. (Soldier Meadows, Humboldt 

 Co., Nevada.) 



Range. — Humboldt and Washoe counties, Nevada, and probably 

 throughout the Great Basin, south in winter to the Colorado Desert and 

 Los Angeles Co., California. 



p. 352. Penthestes rufescens rufescens is subdivided, the form 

 occupying the extreme northern part of the range of the 

 species being known as 



