Vol. XX 



1903 



] T-velfth Sufpletneiit to the A. O. U. Check-List. 3^0 



name was inadvertently adopted by the Committee in the 

 Ninth Supplement, but should now be replaced by 



310a. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Vieillot). 



Meleagris silvestris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., IX^ 



1817, 447. 

 Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris Allen, Auk, XIX, 1902, 420^ 



[322.] Geotrygon chrysia (Bonaparte). The authority and 

 reference should be corrected to 



[322.] Geotrygon chrysia Salvadori. 



Geotrygon chrysia Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 

 1893,571 W- Riley, Auk, 1902, 397). 



337c, Buteo borealis lucasanus Ridgway. This is found 

 to be indistinguishable from Buteo borealis caliirus, and is to 

 be eliminated. {Cf. Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.^ 

 XLI, 1902, 2,7,.) 



Subgenus TINNUNCULUS Vieillot. 



Tinnunculus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., I, 1807, 39. Type, 

 by elimination, Falco columbarius Linnaeus. 



This should replace the subgenus ^salon of the Check-List, 

 and the subgenus Tinnunculus, for the Sparrow Hawks, will become 



Subgenus CERCHNEIS Boie. 



Cerchneis Boie, Isis, 1826, 970. Type, Falco rupicolus 

 Daudin. {Cf. Howe, Contr. N. Amer. Orn., I, 1902, 28.) 



360a. Falco sparverius deserticolus Mearns. 

 An earlier name for this subspecies is found in 



360(7. Falco sparverius phalcena (Lesson). 



Tinnuticulus phahvna Lesson, Compl. QEuv. Buffon, XX, 

 1847, 178. 



