38 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 82. 



CORRECTIONS TO A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE 



SUMMER BIRDS OF FALL RIVER COUNTY, 



SOUTH-WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.^ 



BY S. S. VISHER. 



Ofns a. inax-ivcUicc. — Rocky Mountain Screech Owl. A 

 specimen collected near Oelrichs, August 4, 1911, has been 

 identified by Oberholser as this form. Though I then strongly 

 suspected that it was the Rocky Mountain bird, such a great 

 extension of rang-e as this capture makes, caused me to 

 await verification. 



Spcotyto c. hypogcca. — Burrowing Owl. Very common in 

 the very extensive prairie dog towns which are to be found 

 along many of the valleys of this county. Omitted from the 

 list by stenographic error. 



Dryohates p. hoiiionis. — Batchelder's Woodpecker. Recog- 

 nizing that the Downies of the western edge of South Da- 

 kota were different from those of the east, I somehow fell 

 into the serious error of confusing the names of the illus- 

 trious ornithologists. Nelson and Batchelder, and reported 

 the Nelson Woodpecker (which replaced the Batchelder's in 

 the northern Rocky Alountains). Editor Stone pointed out 

 this error in " The Auk," whereupon I submitted a speci- 

 men of the Downy of extreme western S. D. (collected in 

 Harding County) to Mr. Oberholser, who named it D.p. ho- 

 morns. 



Sitta c. nclsoni. — Rocky ]\Iountain Nuthatch. Recently a 

 new variety of the White-breasted Nuthatch has been recog- 

 nized. The " Slender-billed " variety is now restricted to 

 the Pacific coast and the Nuthatches of the Rocky Mountain, 

 etc., are called 6^. c. iiclsoiii. 



Myadestes tozvnsendi. Townsend's Solitaire. The fledgling 

 collected July 27 near Minnehahta has been identified by the 

 Biological Survey as the Solitaire. The bird was in such a 

 juvenile plumage, short wings, short tail, etc., that its iden- 

 tification was not simple. This is the first " authentic '' 

 iThe Wilson Bulletin, March, 1912, p. 1-6. 



