SECOND APPENDIX. 



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greater amount of white on the under priinary 

 coverts, Both coasts of Ijower California. 

 Brewster, Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 84. 



No. 614 bis, p. 886. Tringa damascensis, 

 the Long-toed Stint, which I aidmitted to the 

 3d edition of the Key, 1887, though the 

 Union List of 1886 declined it, has been 

 reaflBrmed by the Committee. See Bidgway, 

 Auk, April, 1886, p. 275, and Man. N, A. 

 Birds, 1887, p. 158. 



No. 632 bis, p. 887. Symphemia semipah 

 mata inornata, admitted in the third edition 

 of the Key, is confirmed by the Committee. 



Nos. 636, 637, p. 689. The name of the 

 genus Rhyacophilus is changed ^o Helodro- 

 mas, Kaup, Naturl. Syst., 1829, p. 144. 



No. 663 a, p. 662. Add: Butorides vires-. 

 eens frazari. Fkazae's Gbebn Heron. 

 Larger than B. virescens ; darker colored and 

 more uniform in color ; neck more purplish, 

 its sides as well as the forehead strongly 

 glaucous; the light throat line more re- 

 stricted. Wing 7.00; tarsus 2,25; culmen 

 2.50. From Lower California, in the vicinity 

 of La Paa, Ardea virescens frazari, Brewster, 

 Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 83. 



No. 665, p. 663. The name of the genus 

 Nycterodius (or Nyciherodius), is changed tp, 

 Nyctinassa, Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat, Mus., 



1887, p. 295. ' 



No. 667 bis, p. 888. Ardetta neoxena is 

 confirmed by the Committee as a va,lid spe- 

 cies, and as a North American bird, undea? 

 the name Bokmrus neoxenus. For later re- 

 ferences to this interesting Kail-bittern, see 

 Cory, Auk, July, 1886, p. 408 ; Eidgway, 

 Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 127. 



No. 672, p. 669. Parra gymnostoma be- 

 comes Jacana spinosa., Elliot, Auk, July, 



1888, p. 297. (After Fulica spinosa, Lin- 

 n^us, Syst. Nat,, lOtJi ed., 1758, p. 152.) 



No. 673, p, 672. Rallus longirostris crepi- 

 tans is changed to R. cvepita-n^ ; similarly, — 



No. 675, p. 672 . Rallus longirostris saturatus 

 is chaoiged to Rallus crepitans saturatus ; also, 

 Rallus longirostris scottii is cha,nged to Rallus 

 scottii. See Sennett, Auk, .April, 1889, p. 

 165. 



No, 675 a, p. 672. Add : Rallus longirostris 

 scotti. Scqtt's Rail. Described by Sen- 



nett from western Florida in the Auk, July, 

 1888, p. 305, a,nd approved bythp Committee 

 as a good species. It is later described in the 

 following terras: "Bill slender, deeu^ed, 

 and compressed; upper parts sooty brown 

 or black edged slightly with olive-gray ; un- 

 der parts dark ashy-gray mixed more or less 

 with cinnamon ; axillary and flanks slate- 

 color, barred distinctly with white." For 

 a synopsis of the several related species, see 

 Sennett, Auk, April, 1889, p. 165. 



No. 675 6, p. 672. Rallus longirostris carir 

 bcB^s {lege caribbceus], described in 1880 by 

 Mr. Ridgway, Bull. Nutt, Orn. Club, July, 

 1880, p. 140, is now 'recognized by the Com- 

 mittee as North American, and its habitat 

 assigned a§ West Indies and the Gulf pf 

 Mexico, north to Texas. 



Nq. 694, p. 685. Chen ccerulescens, which 

 I have retained throughout ray editions, is 

 now removed frpm the hypothetiqal- list and 

 restored tP fuU sitanding. 



No. 709 a, p. 692, Add: Anas obscura 

 maculosa, Mottled Duck. $ top of 

 head blackish-brown, the feathers edged with 

 pale buff; chin and throat Isabella colpr; 

 cheeks buffy-white with narrow dark-brpwn 

 streaks ; breast, wings, upper parts, and 

 flanks, blaqkish-browu, the feathers margined 

 with pale buff ; under pai'ts buffy-white, each 

 feather with a broad blackish-brown spot 

 near the tip ; under tail-coverta blackish 

 varied with whitish and reddish buff ; four 

 middle tail feathers blackish-brown, others 

 fuscous edged with pale buff, having a 

 V-shaped mark as in A. fiflvigula ; lining 

 of wing white ; speculum purple tipped with 

 white ; feet reddish-orange; bill with a small 

 black spot on base of lower edge of upper 

 mandible, lacking in the female. Sexes 

 otherwise alike. A subspecies of the Dusky 

 Duck which seems entitled to recognition. 

 It occurs from easterri Texas to Kansas, 

 It was originally described by Sennett as 

 Anas maculosa, Auk, July, 1889, p. 263; 

 anjd in the Second Supplement of the 

 Union List, 1890, it is called 4. fulpigula 

 obsowa. 



No, 734, p. 712. Somateria mollissima 

 dresseri becomes S. m. borealis, A. E. Brehm, 



