iSqo.] Second Supplement to the A. O.U. Cheek List. 6 1 



of Natural History, on the day following the close of the Seventh 

 Congress of the Union, and formulated the following report. A 

 tew questions were deferred for want of the necessary data to en- 

 able the Committee to reach satisfactory decisions. 



In accordance with the wishes of the Council, the Committee, 

 in the case of the rejection of proposed changes or additions, gives 

 its reasons for considering them inadmissible. 



The present supplement therefore consists of I, Additions ; II, 

 Eliminations; III, Changes of Nomenclature ; IV, Species and 

 subspecies considered as not entitled to recognition . The num- 

 bers at the left of the name facilitate collation with the Check-List. 

 The interpolated species and subspecies are numbered in accord- 

 ance with the provisions made therefor in the Code of Nomencla- 

 ture. (See page 14, last paragraph.) 



J. A. Allen. 

 William Brewster. 

 Elliott Coues. 

 Robert Ridgwav. 

 John H. Sage. 



I. ADDITIONS. 



134 a. Anas fulvigula maculosa (Sew.). 

 Mottled Duck. 



Anas maculosa Sennett, Auk, VI, July, 1SS9, 263. 

 [B 577, part, C 4S9, part, R 602, part, C 708, part.~] 

 Hab. Eastern Texas and north to Kansas. 



292 b. Oreortyx pictus confinis Anthony. 



San Pedro Partridge. 



O-rcortyx picta confinis Anthony, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 2d. 

 ser. II, Oct. 11, 1S89, 74. 



[B— , C— , R— , C— .] 



Hab. San Pedro Mountains, Lower California. 



