132 Eighth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. oe 
726a. Certhia familiaris alticola MILLER. This becomes 
Certhia familiaris albescens (BERLEPSCH). 
Certhia mexicana albescens BERLEPSCH, Auk, V, Oct. 1888, 
450. 
Certhia familiarts albescens OBERHOLSER, Auk, XIII, Oct. 1896, 
SUBS 
739. Parus cinctus obtectus (Cas.). This becomes 
Parus cinctus alascensis (PRazak). 
Pecila cincta alascensis PRAZAK, Orn. Jahrb. VI, March—April, 
1895, 92. 
The authority should be 
766a. Sialia sialis azurea (SwaIns.). 
changed to Bairp, as given in the first reference under this 
mame im the Checklist, (2dved. p. 322.) (but )<13 84: aaimmthe 
reference should be 1864.) (Cf RipGway, Man. N. Am. Bds. 
1887, 581.) 
Ill — CONSIDERED AS NOT ENTITLED: TO RECOG— 
NITION. 
Callipepla gambelii deserticola SrEPHENs, Auk, XII, Oct. 
1895, 371- 
Considered as not separable from Cadlipepla gambelit (GAMB.). 
Bubo virginianus occidentalis Sronre, Auk, XIII, Apr. 
1896, 155- 
Not admitted, on the ground that the type, from Mitchell 
County, Iowa, proves to be an intergrade between #. wirginianus 
and B. v. arcticus, and not the interior form which Mr. Stone in- 
ended to recognize. 
Melanerpes formicivorus aculeatus Mearns, Auk, VII, 
July, 1890, 249. (Cf. Third Supplement A. O. U. Check-List, in 
Auk, Jan. 1891, 88, and RipGway, Man. N. Am. Bds. 2d ed. 1896, 
597). ‘This is now referred to MWelanerpes formicivorus (SWAINS.). 
(Cf. antea, p. 120.) 
