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374a. Megascops flammeola idahoensis MeERRIAM vs. 
Megascops idahoensis. C/ Wm. Patmer, Nidologist, III, 
May, 1896, 103. i 
After careful reconsideration of the case, it was decided not to 
change the status of the bird as now recognized in the Check-List. 
375 a4. Bubo virginianus subarcticus (Hoy). 
This proves to be a synonym of Bubo virginianus arcticus 
(Swarns.). (Cf Stone, Auk, XIII, Apr. 1896, 153-156.) 
378a. Speotyto cunicularia floridana Ripcw. vs. Speo- 
tyto floridana. C/ Wm. Patmer, Auk, XIII, April, 1896, 108. 
An examination of a large amount of material from Florida and 
from the central and western parts of North America shows that 
while the Florida form, as at present known, is geographically 
isolated from that of the Great Plains and the western United 
States at large, the differences between the two forms are so 
slight and inconstant that the relationship of the Florida form to 
the western one is most satisfactorily expressed by the use of a 
trinomial, as in the Check-List. 
Genus Lucar Cours ex BArTRAaM (Cf. Coues, Auk, XIV, 
Jan. 1897, 97-) 
Rejected as being not only practically a omen nudum, but as 
debarred under Canons XLIV and XLV of the A. O. U. Code, 
which require that names shall be identifiable by the contem- 
porary literature of the subject. 
Many proposed changes of names not here formally treated are 
covered by the following resolution, adopted by the Committee at 
its session in Cambridge, Nov. 13, 1896. 
‘“‘ Resolved: That changes of names from those adopted in the 
Check-List, due to taking the 12th instead of the roth edition of 
Linneus’s ‘ Systema Nature’ as the starting point for the law of 
priority, do not require consideration by this Committee.” 
This has especial relation to cases occurring in Vols. XXIV, 
XXV, and XXVII of the ‘ Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus.’ 
