132 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. \jt^. 



726«. Certhia familiaris alticola Miller. This becomes 

 Certhia familiaris albescens (Berlepsch). 



Certhia mexicana albescens Berlepsch, Auk, V, Oct. 1888, 



45°- 

 Certhiafaiiilliarisa/bescensOv.^Kncih'^iMK, Auk, XIII, Oct. 1896, 



315- 



739. Parus cinctus obtectus (Cae.). This becomes 

 Parus cinctus alascensis { Prazak) . 



Poecila ciiicta alascensis Prazak, Orn. Jahrb. VI, March-April, 

 1895, 92. 



766a. Sialia sialis azurea (Swains.). The authority should be 

 changed to Baird, as given in the first reference under this 

 name in the Check- List, 2d ed. p. 322. (But " 1884" in the 

 reference should be 1864.) {Cf. Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Bds. 

 1887, 581.) 



III. — CONSIDERED AS NOT ENTITLED TO RECOG- 

 NITION. 



Callipepla gambelii deserticola Stephens, Auk, XII, Oct. 



1895, 371- 

 Considered as not separable from Callipepla ga??ihelii (GAU]i.). 



Bubo virginianus occidentalis Stone, Auk, XIII, Apr. 

 1896, 155. 



Not admitted, on the ground that the type, from Mitchell 

 Count)', Iowa, proves to be an intergrade between B. virginianus 

 and B. v. arcticus, and not the interior form which Mr. Stone in- 

 ended to recognize. 



Melanerpes formicivorus aculeatus Mearns, Auk, VII, 

 July, 1890, 249. {Cf. Third Supplement A. O. U. Check-List, in 

 Auk, Jan. 1891, 88, and Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Bds. 2d ed. 1896, 

 597). This is now referred to Melanerpes forrnicivonis (Swains.). 

 {Cf. anfea., p. 120.) 



