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SECOND APPENDIX. 



No. 474, p. 509. Strix cinerea becomes 

 Scotiaptex ctnerea, Swainson, Class. B. 1837, 

 p. 217. 



No. 475, p. 509. Slrix cinerea lapponica be- 

 comes Scotiaptex cinerea lapponica, Ridgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 260 (after Strix 

 lapponica^ Retzius, Fn. Suec, 1800, p. 79). 



No. 484 o, p. 514. Glaucidium gnoma cali- 

 fomicum (<?. californicum Sclater, P. Z. S., 

 1857, p. 4) is recognized as the Pacific Coast 

 form of Q. gnomg,, front California to British 

 America. 



No. 485 bis, p. 515. Add: Glaucidium 

 hoskinsi. HosKiNs's Pygmy Owl. Simi- 

 lar to the preceding, but smaller and grayer; 

 upper parts less distinctly spotted ; forehead 

 and facial disk with more white. Wing 3.30 ; 

 tail 2.50; tarsus 0.75; chord of oulmen 0.50. 

 An interesting addition to our fauna lately 

 discovered in Lower California. G. gnoma 

 hoskinsii, Brewster, Auk, April, 1888, p. 136, 

 but later accorded fuU specific rank by its 

 describer with the approval of the Committee. 



No. 486, p.' 516. Micrathene whitneyi be- 

 comes Mlcropallas whitneyi, Coues, Auk, Jan. 

 1889, p. 71, the generic name originally be- 

 stowed being antedated by Micrathena of 

 SuudevaU, a genus of arachnidaus. 



No. 507 bis, p. 537. Add : Falco regulus. 

 European Merlin. (F. regulus^ Pallas, 

 Keise Russich. Reichs., II., 1773, p. 707; 

 F. aesalon of most authors.) This well-known 

 European and Asiatic Falcon, belonging to 

 the subgenus jSsalon, is recorded as acciden- 

 tal at sea off Greenland. See Kumlein, Auk, 

 Oct. 1887, p. 345. 



No. 510 bis, p. 538. Add : Falco tinnun. 

 cuius. EuROPKAN Kestrel. This well- 

 known bird of Europe and Asia has been 

 detected as a straggler in Massachusetts. See 

 Cory, Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 110, and Aprilj 1888j 

 p. 205. 



No. 513, p. 542; The subgenus Tachytrl- 

 orchis of Eaup, Class. Saug. und Vog., 1844, 

 recognized by Cassin in Birds N. A., 1858, 

 p. 31, is now applied to that subgenus of 

 Buteo of which B. albocaudatus of Vieillot 

 (Falco pterocles of Temminck) is the type 

 species. 



Nos. 882, 883, p. 549. Buteo " fnliginosus," 



as here intimated, is the same as B. hraehyurus, 

 and it has been eliminated from the Union 

 List. See Scott, Auk, July, 1889, p. 243; 

 RidgWay, Auk, Jan. 1890, p. 90. 



No. 539 bis, p. 565. Add: Columbafasciata 

 vioscae. Viosca's Pigeon. Similar to C. 

 fasciata, but with the tail-band wanting or 

 only faintly indicated, the general coloration 

 lighter and more uniform, the vinaceous tints, 

 especially, being more or less replaced by 

 bluish-ash. Lower California. Brewster, 

 Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 86. 



No. 550 bis, p. 571. Add: Geotrygon 

 montana. Rudpy Quail-dove. {Columha 

 mnntana, Linn., 1758; Geotrygon montana, 

 Bonap., Consp. Av., I., 1850, p. 72.) A long 

 aiid well known inhabitant of tropical and 

 subtropical America, including the West 

 Indies and Mexico, lately found at Key West, 

 Florida. See Scott, Auk, April, 1889, 160; 

 July, 1889, p. 246. 



No. 572 bis, p. 591. Add: Ortyx virginiana 

 cubanensis. Cuban Bobwhitb. Under the 

 name Colinus virginianus cubanensis the Com- 

 mittee recognize a second variety in Florida 

 and identify it with the Cuban form. In this 

 the black marking of the under parts is in 

 gr^at excess, the male having the breast chiefly 

 if not entirely black, 



No. 574 a, p. 591. Oreortyx picta confinis 

 is described by Anthony, Proc. Cala. Acad. 

 Sci., 2d ser., IL, Oct. 1889, p, 74, from the 

 San Pedro Mountains of Lower California, 

 and accredited by the Union's Committee as 

 a recognizable subspecies in the Second 

 Suppl. 1890. I have seen no specimens ; but 

 geographical considerations favor the view 

 that this subspecies may be tenable. 



No. 596 bis, p. 606. Add: Hsematopus 

 fra'zari. Frazar's Oyster-catcher. Re- 

 sembling H. palliatus and H. galapagensk; 

 differs from both in the broad zone of mottled 

 black and white feathers across the breast; 

 differs from H. paUiatus in the stouter and 

 more depressed bill, little or no white on the 

 eyelids, darker back and wings, less varied 

 upper tail-coverts, and some other respects; 

 from H. galapagensis in the rather shorter 

 bill, brown instead of black mantle, dark 

 markings on the under tail-ooverts, and 



