126 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. ^^^ 



The name Anas rubida Wilson (1814) is antedated by A. 

 jamaicensis Gmelin (1788). 



Subgenus STEG-ANOPUS Vieillot (Check-List, 2d ed. p. 83). 



This is raised to a full genus. No. 224 will hence stand as 



224. Steganopus tricolor Vieill 



Steganopus tricolor Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXXII, 

 1819, 136. 



Subgenus SQUATAROLA Cuvier (Check-List, 2d ed. p. 99). 



This is raised to a full genus. Hence No. 270 will stand as 



270. Squatarola squatarola (Linn.). 



Tringa squatarola Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 149. 

 Squatarola squatarola Cuv. R6gne Anim. I, 18 17, 467. 



[322.] Geotrygon martinica (Linn.). This becomes 

 Geotrygon chrysia Bona p. 

 Geotrygon chrysia Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 72. 

 Geotrygon martinica (Linn.) is restricted to the Lesser Antilles. 

 G. chrysia, a very different species, occurs in Cuba, Haiti, the 

 Bahamas, and on the Florida Keys. {Cf- Salvadori, Cat. Bds. 

 Br. Mus. XXI, 1893, pp. 570-572.) 



3945. Dryobates pubescens oreoecus Baich. This becomes 

 Dryobates pubescens homorus (Cab.). 

 Dryobates homorus Cabanis, Mus. Hein. pt. iv, 1863, 65. 

 Dryobates pubescens homorus Ridgw. Man. N. Am. Bds. 2d 

 ed. 1896, 597. 



422. Cypseloides niger (Gmel.). This becomes 

 Cypseloides niger borealis (Kennerly). 

 Cypseliis borealis Kennerly, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857, 



202. 

 Cypseloides niger borealis Drew, Auk, II, Jan. 1885, 17. 



[B 10^, part, C 270, R 350, /^rr/, C 404.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Rocky Mountain region (Colorado), west to the 

 Pacific coast ; north to British Columbia, and south to Lower 

 California, Mexico, and Costa Rica. 



