298 Fifteenth Supplement to the A. 0. U. Check-List. [jVjj* 



Family FALCONID.E. To include the subfamilies Fal- 

 conince and Pohjborinoe. 



Subfamily PANDIONIN^I. This is given family rank, as 



Family PANDIONID^I. 



Genus GLAUX Morris. This, strictly interpreted, is a nomen 

 nudum, and again becomes 



Genus CRYPTOGLAUX Richmond. 



Cryptoglaux Richmond, Auk, XVIII, April, 1901, 193. Type, 

 Strix tengmalmi Gmelin = S. funerea Linnaeus. 



Nos. 371-372a will thus remain as given in the Thirteenth Supple- 

 ment (Auk, XXI, 1904, 413), with the change of the species 

 name from tengmalmi to funerea, as given in the Fourteenth 

 Supplement (Auk, XXV, 1908, 371). 



Genus TROCHILUS Linn.eus. This is changed to 



Genus ARCHILOCHUS Reichenbach. 



Archilochus Reichenbach, Journ. fur Orn., 1853,^ Extra- 

 Heft, 1854 (Aufz. der Colib.), 13. Type, Trochilus alcx- 

 andri Bourcieb & Mulsant. 



The following changes are necessitated in nos. 428 and 429: 



428. Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus). 



429. Archilochus alexandri (Bourcier & Mulsant). 



Genus COTURNICULUS Bonaparte. This becomes 

 Genus AMMODRAMUS Swainson. 



Ammodramus Swainson, Philos. Magazine, n. s., I, June, 1827, 

 435. Type, Ammodramus bimaculatus Swainson. 



Nos. 545-5466 become 



545. Ammodramus bairdi (Audubon). 



