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"from Louisiana and 'i'oxas lo Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota"; and 

 Wilsonia ptisilla chryseola, separated as a Pacific coast form of W. f. 

 pileolata, breeding from southern California to British Columbia. The 

 new extraiiniilal forms include Pliauicotliraitpis rubica nelsoni, from 

 Yucatan ; Geothlypis i/icomptdj from Abaco Island, Bahamas ; Geothlypis 

 exigna, from Andros Island, Bahamas; Geothlypis Jiavida^ from New 

 Providence, Bahamas ; Geothlypis nelsoni microrhyncha, from Hidalgo, 

 Mexico; Basileuterus culicivorus Jlavescens, from the State of Jalisco, 

 Mexico; and liAoditiociticlci rosea eximea, separated as the Central Amer- 

 ican form of true rosea of South America.' 



In respect to generic changes, Meguqiiiscalus is raised to a full genus 

 for the Boat-tailed Crackles, as is Iloloquiscalus for the West Indian 

 Crackles, thus restricting ^iiiscalus to ^. quisciila and its subspecies. 

 Peucedramus is very properly raised to a full genus for the Olive Warbler; 

 Oporornis and Chamcethlypis are also raised to full genera, and the old 

 genus Sctophaga is restricted to 5. ruticilla and S. picta. 



Under Chamcethlypis, Geothlypis poliocephala ralphi of the A. O. U. 

 Check-List is considered inseparable from irv\e poliocephala. Of Piranga 

 rtibriceps, introduced into the Check-List as a straggler (standing as 

 [607.1] ) on the basis of its capture in California, Mr. Ridgwaj says : "The 

 identification of the specimen on which the record is based in undoubtedly 

 correct; but even granting no mistake has been made as to the specimen 

 having actually been taken in California, the occurrence must have been 

 wholly fortuitous, most likely an escape from captivity, and the species 

 'has no claim to a place in the North American fauna" (p. 776). It is so 

 exclusively a South American bird that it is treated as extralimital to the 

 scope of the work here under'notice. In all probability Icterus icterus, a 

 South American Oriole said to have been taken at Charleston, S. C, has 

 no better claim to a place in our list, and should be similarly excluded. It 

 may be added that several 'Texas' birds admitted provisionally on the 

 authority of Ciraud, — as Setophaga mi?iiata, Cardellina rubrifrons, 

 Ergaticus ruber., and the two species of Basileuterus — receive no confir- 

 mation of their claim to recognition as Texas species, the collation of the 

 records and material thus far gathered only serving to throw greater doubt 

 upon the supposed Texas origin of Ciraud's specimens on which these 

 species are alleged to have been originally based. The nearest point of 

 record for several of them is still the highlands of Mexico. 



Icterus audubonii is treated as a subspecies of /. melanocephalus. The 



^ We would suggest that it would be a convenience to reviewers and bibli- 

 ographers, and probably to others, if the author would indicate, either in the 

 text, table of contents, or in a separate list, the new forms described, as they 

 are not always clearly indicated in the text, and have to be determined by an 

 examination of the context. Omission is also made, in several instances, to 

 indicate a type specimen for the new form. 



