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Otocoris alpestris hoyti Bishop, Auk, XIII, April, 1896, 

 130. 



Considered as not sufficiently distinct from Otocoris alpestris 

 kucolcvnia (Coues). 



Junco danbyi Coues, Nidiologist, III, Oct. 1895, 14. 

 Proves to have been based on immature examples oijujico a/keni 

 RiDGw. {Cf. Coues, Auk, XIV, Jan. 1897, 94.) 



Minus \_sic-'] carolinensis grisifrons [sic] Maynard, Bds. 

 East. N. Am. pt. 40 [i8g6], 710. 



The alleged character of gray frontlet is not distinctive, being 

 of frequent occurrence in Galeoscoptes caroli?iensis from any locality. 



IV. PROPOSED CHANGES OF NOMENCLATURE 

 REJECTED. 



92. Puffinus auduboni Finsch, vs. PufRnus obscurus 



(Gmel.). Cf. Salvin, Cat. Bds. Br. Mus. XXV, 1896, 382. 



Change not required, the two names representing, in the 

 opinion of the Committee, two sufficiently distinct birds. 



Genus Aythya Bote, vs Nyroca Fleming. Cf. Salvadori, 

 Cat. Bds. Br. Mus. XXVII, 1895, 334. 



Aythia is rejected by Salvadori because not defined. 



Genus Actitis Illiger, 181 i, 7^j-. Tringoides Bonap. 1831. 

 Cf Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Br. Mus. XXIV, 1896, 456. 



The type of Actitis is, by elimination, Tringa hypoleiicos Linn., 

 which is also the type of Tringoides., of much later date. 



•236. Tringa couesi (Ridgw.), ts. Arquatella maritima 



couesi (Ridgw.). Cf. Sharpe. t. r., 583. 



243a. Tringa alpina pacifica Coues, vs. Tringa americana 



(Cassin). Cf. Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Br. Mus. XXIV, 1896, 608. 



Tringa alpina, var. americafia Cassin (1858) is antedated by 

 Tringa americana Brehm (1855 z=: Tringa fnscicoNis Vieill.). 



