SECOND APPENDIX. 



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comes Coereba bahamensis. See Ridgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 590. 



JSTo. 157 his, p. 318. Piranga rubriceps. 

 A South American Tanager which has acci- 

 dentally occurred in Santa Barbara Co., Cali- 

 fornia. See Bryant, Auk, Jan. 1887, p. 78. 

 It was originally named by the late Mr. 

 George Robert Gray, in Gray and Mitchell's 

 Genera of Birds, Vol. 11., 1844, and figured on 

 plate 89 of that great work. 



No. 165 his, p. 325. Progne cryptoleuca of 

 Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, May, 1865, which I 

 have never admitted to the Key, and which 

 was not allowed in the Union List of 1886, 

 is now recognized by the Committee as a 

 good species. It may perhaps stand as a 

 smaller race of the common house martin, 

 to be known as P. suhis cryptoleuca. The 

 tail is said to be narrower, and relatively 

 more deeply forked ; and the adult male 

 to have the feathers of the ventral region 

 marked beneath the surface with white, 

 whence the name cryptoleuca. The size is 

 less than that of P. suhis. This race occurs 

 in Florida, Ciiba, and probably in Central 

 America. 



No. 165 ter, p. 325. Progne suhis hesperia. 

 This western Martin is described from Cali- 

 fornia by Brewster, Auk, April, 1889, p. 92. 

 The male is said to be indistinguishable from 

 the ordinary P. suhis, and the female to difEer 

 from that of P. suhis in having the belly, 

 vent, and crissum white, nearly or quite im- 

 maculate ; the flanks, breast, throat, forehead, 

 and nuchal collar grayish-white, the feathers 

 of the back and rump edged with grayish or 

 pale brown, the bend of the wings and un- 

 der wing-coverts spotted with white. 



No. 177 his, p. 872. Vireo solilarius allicola, 

 Brewster, Auk, Jan. 1886, p. Ill, admitted 

 • to the Ket in 1887, is confirmed by the 

 Committee. 



No. 181 his, p. 872. Vireo novehoracensis 

 maynardi, Brewster, Auk, April, 1887, p. 148, 

 admitted to the Key in 1887, is confirmed 

 by the Committee. 



No. 188 a, p. 338. Lanius ludovicianus 

 gambeli, Ridgway, Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, 

 p. 467, is named as a new subspecies from 

 the coast of California, and approved by 



the Committee. The author names and at- 

 tempts to characterize it " with extreme 

 reluctance," yet has felt "compelled to do 

 so, or else drop L. excuhitoroides." 



No. 196, p. 347. Carpodacus frontalis is 

 reduced to C. mexicanus frontalis, Ridgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, p. 391. 



No. 196, p. 347. A new subgenus Burrica 

 is based on Carpodacus mexicanus (Fringilla 

 mexicana, Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 1766, p. 

 165) of Ridgway (Pr. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, 1885, p. Ill), Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, 

 p. 390. 



No. 196 o, p. 347. Carpodacus mexicanus 

 ruberrimus is doubtfully named by Ridgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 392, as the St. 

 Lucas House Finch, a subspecies inhabiting 

 Lower California and parts of Sonora. 



No. 197, p. 348. Carpodacus frontalis 

 rhodocolpus, which I reluctantly admitted as 

 an " alleged variety," is properly eliminated 

 by the Committee. 



No. 219 a, p. 356. Plectrophanes nivalis 

 townsendi is described from the Prybilof and 

 Commander Islands by Ridgway, Man. N, A. 

 Birds, 1887, p. 403, as a new subspecies of 

 Plectrophenax, differing from P. nivalis in 

 being larger, with a longer bill. 



No. 233 a, p. 365. Poocmtes [lege Poce- 

 cetesj gramineus affinis. Miller, Auk, Oct. 

 1888, p. 404, is admitted from California 

 and western Oregon, as the Oregon Vesper 

 Sparrow. It is compared with the eastern 

 form in the color of the upper parts, and with 

 the western confinis in the slender bill and 

 narrow dorsal streaks. 



No. 239 a, p. 369. Ammodramus maritimus 

 peninsulcB, Allen, Auk, July, 1888, p. 284, 

 is a new subspecies of the Seaside Pinch 

 described from southwestern Florida and 

 along the Gulf coast to Louisiana. It is 

 compared with A. nigrescens. 



No. 239 6, p. 368. Ammodramus maritimus 

 sennetti, Allen, Auk, July, 1888, p. 286, is 

 described as a new subspecies from Corpus 

 Christi, coast of Texas. In this form, as in 

 A. m. peninsula, the young birds appear to 

 be more readily distinguishable from allied 

 races than the adults are. 



No. 240 a, p, 368. Ammodramus caudacu- 



