448 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



381. Micrathene whitneyi (Cooper.) 

 Page 303. This becomes Micropallas whitneyi ( Cooper.) 



387«. Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Ridgw [387, fart.^ 



California Cncfaoo. 



Page 207. 



396. Dryobates scalaris (Wagl.) 

 Page,3i2. This becomes Dryobates scalaris bairdi^ ( Scl.) 



419. Nyctidromus albicoUis (Gm.) 



Paranqne. 



Page 237. This becomes Nyctidromus albicoUis merrilli ( Senn.) 



Merrill's Paranqne. 



Mr. Sennett says that when compared with others of the species 

 from Southern Costa Rica, Panaina, Guiana, and Brazil this form can 

 be distinguished, first by the prevailing gray color on upper parts, 

 where the others have brown or rufous-cinnamon ; second, by its large 

 size, etc, etc, (see Auk Vol. V, pages 44-45.) It is named in honor of 

 Dr. J. C. Merrill U. S. A., who discovered the bird in the United States 

 on April i, 1876. 



486a. Corvus corax principalis Ridgw [2^0, par/.] 



Northern Raven. 



Page 265. 



534«. Plectrophenax nivalis townsendi Ridgw [i86, part.] 



Prylilof Sno-nrflake. 



Page 295. 



553. Zonotrichla quernla (Nutt.) 



Harris's Sparroir. 



Capt. Bendire gives the following interesting account concerning 

 the supposed nest and eggs of this species : 



"For the purpose of drawing the attention of ornithologists located 

 along the northern border of Montana and Dakota, and throughbiat 

 southern British North America, to the fact that the nest of eggs of 

 this interesting species remain still unknown, and to the probability of 

 its breeding in these regions, instead of further north, I will state that 

 none of the large collections of birds-, nest and eggs made by the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen of the Hudson's Bay Company, Robert McFarlane, 

 Strachan Jones, T. McDougall, Donald Gunn, C. P. Gaudet, and J. 

 I^ockhart, and which were donated to the Smithsonian Institution at 

 Washington, D. C, contained specimens of this species, although rep- 



