SECOND APPENDIX. 
comes Cosreba bahamensis. See Ridgway, 
Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, p. 590. 
No. 157 bis, 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. IL, 1844, and figured on 
plate 89 of that great work. 
No. 165 bis, p. 825. 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. subis eryptoleuca. 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. subis. This race occurs 
in Florida, Cuba, and probably in Central 
America. 
No. 165 ter, p. 325. Progne subis 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. subis, and the female to differ 
from that of P. subis 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 bis, p. 872. Vireo solitarius alticola, 
Brewster, Auk, Jan. 1886, p. 111, admitted 
to the Key in 1887, is confirmed by the 
Committee. 
No. 181 bis, p. 872. Vireo noveboracensis 
maynardi, Brewster, Auk, April, 1887, p. 148, 
admitted to the Kry 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 
899 
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. excubitoroides.” 
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 
mezicana, Miller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 1766, p. 
165) of Ridgway (Pr. Biol. Soc. Washing- 
ton, 1885, p. 111), Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, 
p. 390. 
No. 196 a, p. 847. 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. 848. 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. 865. Poocetes [lege Pow- 
cetes] 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 conjfinis in the slender bill and 
narrow dorsal streaks. 
No. 239 a, p. 369. Ammodramus maritimus 
peninsule, Allen, Auk, July, 1888, p. 284, 
is a new subspecies of the Seaside Finch 
described from southwestern Florida and 
along the Gulf coast to Louisiana. It is 
compared with A. nigrescens. 
No. 239 b, p. 3868. 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 (‘so 
be more readily distinguishable from allied 
races than the adults are. 
No. 240 a, p. 368. Ammodramus caudacu- 
