904 
No. 474, p. 509. Strix cinerea becomes 
Scotiaptex cinerea, Swainson, Class. B. 1887, 
p. 217. 
No. 475, p. 509. Strix 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. 484a, p. 514. Glaucidium gnoma cali- 
fornicum (G. californicum Sclater, P. Z. S., 
1857, p. 4) is recognized as the Pacific Coast 
form of G. gnoma, from California to British 
America. 
No. 485 bis, p. 515. Add: Glaucidium 
hoskinsi. Hosxins’s Pyamy Ow. 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 culmen 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 full specific rank by its 
describer with the approval of the Committee. 
No. 486, p. 516. Micrathene whitneyi be- 
comes Micropallas whitneyi, Coues, Auk, Jan. 
1889, p. 71, the generic name originally be- 
stowed being antedated by Micrathena of 
Sundevall, a genus of arachnidans. 
No. 507 bis, p. 587. Add: Falco regulus. 
European Meruin. (Ff. regulus, Pallas, 
Reise Russich. Reichs., II., 1773, p. 707; 
F. esalon of most authors.) This well-known 
European and Asiatic Falcon, belonging to 
the subgenus salon, is recorded as acciden- 
tal at sea off Greenland. See Kumlein, Auk, 
Oct. 1887, p. 345. 
No. 510 bis, p. 588. Add: Falco tinnun- 
culus. European Kestrev. This well- 
known bird of Europe and Asia has been 
detected as a straggler in Massachusetts. See 
Cory, Auk, Jan. 1888, p. 110, and April, 1888, 
p- 205. 
No. 518, p. 542. The subgenus Tachytri- 
orchis of Kaup, Class. Siug. 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 * fuliginosus,”’ 
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as here intimated, is the same as B. brachyurus, 
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: Columba fasciata 
viosce. Vrosca’s Picron. 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. Ruppy QUAIL-DOVE. (Columba 
montana, Linn., 1758; Geotrygon montana, 
Bonap., Consp. Av., I., 1850, p. 72.) A long 
and 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. Cusan Boswaits. 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 
great excess, the male having the breast chiefly 
if not entirely black. 
No. 574 a, p. 591. Oreortyx picta conjinis 
is described by Anthony, Proc. Cala. Acad. 
Sci., 2d ser., II., 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 dis, p. 606. Add: Haematopus 
frazari, FRAZAR’S OYSTER-CATCHER. Re- 
sembling H. palliatus and H. galapagensis ,; 
differs from both in the broad zone of mottled 
black and white feathers across the breast; 
differs from H. palliatus in thé 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-coverts, and 
