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Auk 

 an. 



374a. Megascops flammeola idahoensis Merriam vs. 

 Megascops idahoensis. Cf. Wm, Palmer, Nidologist, III, 

 May, 1896, 103. 



After careful reconsideration of the case, it was decided not to 

 change the status of the bird as now recognized in the Check-List. 



375 a. Bubo virginianus subarcticus (Hoy) . 

 This proves to be a synonym of Bubo virginianus arcticus 

 (Swains.). {Cf. Stone, Auk, XIII, Apr. 1896, 153-156.) 



37 S«^/. Speotyto cunicularia floridana Rmciw. vs. Speo 

 tyto floridana. Cf. Wm. Palmer, Auk, XIII, April, 1896, 108. 

 An examination of a large amount of material from Florida and 

 from the central and western parts of North America shows that 

 while the Florida form, as at present known, is geographically 

 isolated from that of the Great Plains and the western United 

 States at large, the differences between the two forms are sO 

 slight and inconstant that the relationship of the Florida form to 

 the western one is most satisfactorily expressed by the use of a 

 trinomial, as in the Check-List. 



Genus Lucar Coues ex Bartram {Cf. Coues, Auk, XIV, 

 Jan. 1897, 97.) 



Rejected as being not only practically a nomen nudum., but as 

 debarred under Canons XLIV and XLV of the A. O. U. Code, 

 which require that names shall be identifiable by the contem- 

 porary literature of the subject. 



Many proposed changes of names not here formally treated are 

 covered by the following resolution, adopted by the Committee at 

 its session in Cambridge, Nov. 13, 1896. 



'■'■Resolved : That changes of names from those adopted in the 

 Check-List, due to taking the 12th instead of the loth edition of 

 Linna^us's ' Systema Naturae ' as the starting point for the law of 

 priority, do not require consideration by this Committee." 



This has especial relation to cases occurring in Vols. XXIV, 

 XXV, and XXVII of the ' Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus.' 



