126 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. [fe 
Jan. 
The name Anas rubida WILSON (1814) is antedated by 4. 
jamaicensis GMELIN (1788). 
SusceNus STEGANOPUS Vieittor (Check-List, 2d ed. p. 83). 
This is raised to a full genus. No. 224 will hence stand as 
224. Steganopus tricolor VIcILi 
Steganopus tricolor Viet. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXXII, 
1819, 136. 
SuBGENUS SQUATAROLA Cuvier (Check-List, 2d ed. p. 99). 
This is raised to a full genus. Hence No. 270 will stand as 
270. Squatarola squatarola (LINN.). 
Tringa squatarola LINN. 5. N. ed. to, 1758, 149. 
Sguatarola squatarola Cuv. Régne Anim. I, 1817, 467. 
[322.] Geotrygon martinica (Linn.). This becomes 
Geotrygon chrysia Bonap. 
Geotrygon chrysia BoNAP. Consp. Av. II, 1854, 72. 
Geotrygon martinica (LINN.) is restricted to the Lesser Antilles. 
G. chrysia, a very different species, occurs in Cuba, Haiti, the 
Bahamas, and on the Florida Keys. (Cf SaLvaport, Cat. Bds. 
Br. Mus. XXI, 1893, pp. 570-572.) 
3946. Dryobates pubescens orececus Barcu. This becomes 
Dryobates pubescens homorus (CaB.). 
Dryobates homorus CaBanis, Mus. Hein. pt. iv, 1863, 65. 
Dryobates pubescens homorus RipGw. Man. N. Am. Bds. 2d 
ed. 1896, 597. 
422. Cypseloides niger (GmeEL.). This becomes 
' Cypseloides niger borealis (KENNERLY). 
Cypselus borealis KENNERLY, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857, 
| . \ 
202. 
Cypseloides niger borealis Drew, Auk, II, Jan. 1885, 17. 
[B 108, part, C 270, R 350, part, C 404.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Rocky Motintain region (Colorado), west to the 
Pacific coast; north to British Columbia, and south to Lower 
California, Mexico, and Costa Rica. 
