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A. Birds, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 125.) 152. Change Glaucionetta islandica (Gmel.) to Clangula islandica Gmel., for the reason given under the preceding species. 154. Change Clangula hyemalis Linn. to Harelda hyemalis (Linn.), the generic name Clangula having been wrongly applied. (See Eighth Supplement to A. O. U. Check-List N. A. Birds, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 125.) APPENDIX 11. 167. Change Erismatura rubida (Wils.) to Erismatura jamaicensis (Gmel.), the latter name having twenty-six years' priority. (See Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii, 1896, p. 445.) 171.1. Add Anser fabalis (Lath.). BEAN GOOSE. - An Old World species which has been once recorded from Greenland. (See Allen apud Schalow, The Auk, xiii, 1896, p. 244.) 224. Change Phalaropus tricolor (Vieill.) to Steganopus tricolor Vieill., the subgenus Steganopus having been accorded generic rank. (See Eighth Supplement A. O. U. Check-List N. A. Birds, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 126.) 270. Change Charadrius squatarola (Linn.) to Squatarola squatarola (Linn.), the subgenus Squatarola having been accorded generic rank. (See Eighth Supplement A. O. U. Check-List N. A. Birds, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 126.) 322. Change Geotrygon martinica (Linn.) to Geotrygon chrysia Bonap. The former inhabits the Lesser Antilles, the latter Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas, and Florida Keys. (See Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, pp. 570-572.) 394c. Add Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swains.). -The Downy Woodpeckers of eastern North America have been separated by Mr. H. C. Oberholser into two races: Dryobates pubescens, the Southern Downy Woodpecker, inhabiting the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and Dryobates pubescens medianus, the Downy Woodpecker, inhabiting the region from North Carolina northward. The former is described as similar to D. P. medianus, "but smaller, the lower parts more brownish, the white markings of wings and tail averaging of less extent." (See Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, p. 547; also Brewster, The Auk, xiv, 1897, p. 80.) 466a. Change Empidonax traillii (Aud.), TRAILL'S FLYCATCHER, to Empidonax traillii alnorum (Brewst.), ALDER FLYCATCHER.-The change proposed by Mr. Brewster, and mentioned in a note under this species, has been adopted by the A. O. U. Committee. 498b. Change Agelaius phœniceus bryanti Ridgw., BAHAMAN REDWING, to Agelaius phœniceus fioridanus Maynard, FLORIDA RED- WING, the Florida bird having proved separable from the former, inhabiting the Bahamas. (See Maynard, Birds E. N. A., part 40, 1896, p. 689.) 550c. Add Ammodramus maritimus macgillivrayi Aud.