APPENDIX. 591 



No. 740. Parus hudsonicus FORST., page 564. 



Since the synopsis of the genus Parus was written, the National Museum has 

 received three specimens of a species closely allied to P. hudsonicus, but apparently 

 specifically distinct, collected by Lieut. George M. Stoney, U.S.N., on the Kowak 

 or Putnam Eiver, northwestern Alaska. The characters of the new species, which 

 is named in honor of Lieut. Stoney, are as follows : . Parus stoneyi EIDGW. Kowak 

 Chickadee. Similar to P. hudsonicus, but much grayer above, sides of neck purer ash- 

 o-ray, sides much paler rusty, and throat clear slate-black instead of sooty blackish ; 

 wing 2.55-2.75 (2.62), tail 2.60-2.65 (2.62), exposed culmen .30-.35 (.32), tarsus 

 .62-^0. 



The three specimens upon which this species is based have been carefully com- 

 pared with 89 examples of P. hudsonicus, including 18 from Alaska, 29 from northern 

 Labrador (Fort Chimo) and Moose Factory, 35 from New Brunswick, 1 from Nova 

 Scotia, 4 from Maine, and 2 from northern New York. The only appreciable vari- 

 ation with locality in this extensive series is that four of the Alaskan skins are 

 browner than the rest, but they are all fall or winter specimens, in fresh plumage, 

 while the others are all in spring or summer plumage. 



GENUS REGULUS CUVIER, page 567. 



An adult male of R. satrapa from the city of Mexico in Mr. Lawrence's collec- 

 tion is much deeper and richer colored than even Pacific coast examples, and no 

 doubt represents a race resident on the high mountains of central Mexico, which 

 Mr. Lawrence has named, in manuscript, Regulus satrapa aztecus. The lower parts 

 are light grayish brown, or drab, the underlying portion of the plumage pale dull 

 buffy ; the white superciliary stripe (tinged with brownish anteriorly) is much more 

 conspicuous than usual, owing to contrast with the very dark color of adjacent por- 

 tions of sides of head and brownish lower parts ; the secondaries and rectrices are 

 edged with very bright yellowish olive-green, while the back, scapulars, and rump 

 are a rather dull olive-green, changing to dull sooty grayish on the hind-neck. 

 Wing 2.25, tail 1.70. 



LIST OF NEW SUBGENERA DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK. 



1. Neofalco. (Type, Falco albigularis DAUD.) Page 248 



2. Nuttallornis. (Type, Tyrannus borealis SWAINS.) " 337 



3. Burrica. (Type, Fringilla mexicana MULL.) " 390 



4. Chamsethlypis. (Type, Geothlypis poliocephala BAIRD.) " 525 



LIST OF NEW SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK. 



1. Ortalis vetula pallidiventris (Yucatan) Page 209 



2. Oidemia (Melanitta) stejnegeri (Kamtschatka to Japan) " 112 



3. Coccyzus americanus occidentalis " 273 



4. Coccyzus maynardi " 274 



5. Dryobates villosus maynardi (Bahamas ; = Picus insularis MAYN., nee 



GOULD) " 282 



