412 APPENDIX II. 



167. Change Erismatura rubida ( Wils.) to Erismatura ja- 

 maicensis (<;>/ni. .tin- latter name having twenty-six years' priority. (See 

 Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., xxvii, 1890, p. 445.) 



171.1. Add Anser fabalis (Lath.). BEAN GOOSE. An Old World 

 species which has been once recorded from Greenland. (See Allen <tj>ud 

 Sehalow, The Auk, xiii, L8M, p. 'J44.) 



224. Change Phalaropus tricolor ( fie ill.) to Steganopus tri- 



color KM&, the abgMkOi ,S/ ; /<I/>//MX having been accordi-.l generic r,ank. 

 S. -i- Kighth Supplement A. O. U. Check-List N. A. Birds, The Auk, xiv, 

 1897, p. 126.) 



270. Change Charadrius squatarola (Linn.) to Squatarola 



squatarola ( Linn. -, tin- su ;''ir-'iln having been accorded gcneric 



rank. (See Eighth Supplement A. O. U. Check-List N. A. Birds, The Auk, 

 xiv, 1897, p. 126.) 



322. change Geotrygon martinica > Linn.i to Geotrygon 

 chrysia Jionap. The former inhabits the Lesser Antilles. tin- latter Cuba, 

 Haiti, the Bahamas, and Florida Keys. (See Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxi, 1893, pp. 570-oT-j 



394c. A-ld Dryobatcs pubescens medianus (s/r.///i.v.'i. The 



Downy Woodpeckers of eastern Nortli Amt-rica have brm scj.aratrd by Mr. 

 H. C. Oberholser into two races: Dryobatft pubescent, the Southern Downy 

 Woodpecker, inhabiting the Sotitli Atlantic and Gulf States, and Dryo- 

 bates pubescens medianus, the Downy Woodpecker, inhabitim: the 

 region from North Carolina northward. The former is der-eribed a> similar 

 to I>. P. mtdianv*, " but smaller, the lower parts more brownish, the white 

 markings of wings and tail uverairijiir f h->- extent." liolser, I'roc. 



U. S. Nat Mus., xviii, p. ."47 ; also Brew>ter, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 80.) 



466a. rhamre Empidonax tralllil ( Av4.\ TRATLL'S FI.V'.\TCIIKK, 

 to Empidonax traillii alnorum i /:>:>>(. . AI.I-KI: Fi.v. \TIIIKK. The 

 ehanire proposed by Mr. Hrew>ter, and nientioned in a note under this species, 

 has been adopted by the A. <>. [' . Committee. 



498b. Chanjre Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti A'/A/".. BMIAMAX 

 REDWING, to Agelaius phoeniceus fioridanus Jf<r;/i,<ir,/. FI.OKII.A KKD- 

 the Florida binl liavinir proved sejiarable from t lie former, inhabiting 

 the Bahamas. (Sec- Maynard, Birds K. N. A., part 40, 1896, p. 689.) 



550c. A i-i Ammodramus maritimus macgillivrayi And. 

 LOUISIAXA SEASIDE FINCH. The dark Seaside Finch of tbc west (iulf coast 

 (Louisiana, southward in winter to Corpus Christi, Texas i has been separated 

 by Mr. Kidgway under the above name. It is deseribed as -'similar to ./. ///. 

 penin#ul<z, bnt still darker, with dusky streaks on baek, broader and blacker, 

 and margined externally i except along median line) with broad streaks of 

 pale ash gray or grayish white; pileum and hind neck more strongly tinned 

 with brown; post-auricular sj>ace and chest strongly tinged with butf (some- 



