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Volume 134, 2017, pp. 751–773 DOI: 10.1642/AUK-17-72.1 RESEARCH ARTICLE Fifty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds R. Terry Chesser,1,12 Kevin J. Burns,2 Carla Cicero,3 Jon L. Dunn,4 Andrew W. Kratter,5 Irby J. Lovette,6 Pamela C. Rasmussen,7 J. V. Remsen, Jr.,8 James D. Rising,9 Douglas F. Stotz,10 and Kevin Winker11 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA 2 Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA 3 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA 4 Bishop, California, USA 5 Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA 6 Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA 7 Michigan State University Museum and Department of Integrative Biology, East Lansing, Michigan, USA 8 Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 9 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ramsay Wright Labs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 10 Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA 11 University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA 12 Corresponding author: [email protected]. All authors are members of the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature—North and Middle America, of the American Ornithological Society (formerly American Ornithologists’ Union), listed alphabetically after the chairman. Published July 5, 2017 This is the 17th supplement since publication of the 7th and Lanius borealis) because of splits from extralimital edition of the Check-list of North American Birds species; (6) one species (Larus thayeri) is lost by merger (American Ornithologists’ Union [AOU] 1998). It sum- into a species already on the list; (7) six genera marizes decisions made between April 15, 2016, and April (Sibirionetta, Spatula, Mareca, Crithagra, Leistes, and 15, 2017, by the AOS’s Committee on Classification and Ptiloxena) are added as a result of splits from other Nomenclature—North and Middle America. The Com- genera, resulting in changes to 12 scientific names mittee has continued to operate in the manner outlined in (Sibirionetta formosa, Spatula querquedula, S. discors, S. the 42nd Supplement (AOU 2000). cyanoptera, S. clypeata, Mareca strepera, M. falcata, M. penelope, M. americana, Crithagra mozambica, Leistes Changes in this supplement include the following: (1) militaris,andPtiloxena atroviolacea); (8) one genus four species (Melanitta nigra, Rallus longirostris, Thalas- (Juliamyia) is added and another (Damophila) lost due sarche eremita, and Acrocephalus dumetorum) are added to reasons of priority, resulting in a change to one scientific to the main list on the basis of new distributional name (Juliamyia julie); (9) three genera (Chen, Procel- information, including one species transferred from the sterna, and Mesophoyx) are lost by merger (into Anser, Appendix; (2) nine species (Tadorna ferruginea, Rallus Anous,andArdea), resulting in changes to five scientific aquaticus, Charadrius veredus, Corvus frugilegus, C. names (Anser canagicus, A. caerulescens, A. rossii, Anous cornix, Sylvia atricapilla, Zoothera aurea, Anthus praten- ceruleus, and Ardea intermedia); (10) the English names of sis,andAcanthis cabaret) are added to the main list two species (Toxostoma lecontei and Ammodramus because of a change in the geographical coverage of the leconteii) are changed to correct the spelling of a proper Check-list (inclusion of Greenland), including six species name; and (11) one species (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is added transferred from the Appendix, and the status codes for to the list of species known to occur in the United States. four species (Anser brachyrhynchus, Pluvialis apricaria, Turdus pilaris, and T. iliacus) are changed for the same Ten new families of nine-primaried oscines (Rhodino- reason; (3) four species (Eugenes spectabilis, Loxia cichlidae, Passerellidae, Calyptophilidae, Phaenicophilidae, sinesciurus, Melozone cabanisi, and Junco bairdi) are Nesospingidae, Spindalidae, Zeledoniidae, Teretistridae, added to the main list due to splits from species already Icteriidae, and Mitrospingidae) are added, and a subfamily on the list; (4) the distributional statement and English classification is adopted for the Icteridae. New linear name of one species (Aulacorhynchus prasinus)are sequences are adopted for species in the genus Anser, for changed because of a split from an extralimital species; species currently or formerly in the genus Anas, for species (5) two species names are changed (to Circus hudsonius in the Scolopacidae, for genera in the Fringillidae and Q 2017 American Ornithological Society. ISSN 0004-8038, electronic ISSN 1938-4254 Direct all requests to reproduce journal content to the AOS Publications Office at [email protected] 752 58th Supplement to AOS Check-list R. T. Chesser, K. J. Burns, C. Cicero, et al. Icteridae, and for families of nine-primaried oscines, all Spatula clypeata Northern Shoveler. due to new phylogenetic data; and the relative positions of Mareca strepera Gadwall. Saxicola and Oenanthe in the linear sequence are reversed, Mareca falcata Falcated Duck. (A) correcting an error from a previous supplement. Mareca penelope Eurasian Wigeon. (N) Mareca americana American Wigeon. Literature that provides the basis for the Committee’s Melanitta nigra Common Scoter. (A) decisions is cited at the end of this supplement, and Eugenes fulgens Rivoli’s Hummingbird. citations not already in the Literature Cited of the 7th Eugenes spectabilis Talamanca Hummingbird. edition (with supplements) become additions to it. A list of Juliamyia julie Violet-bellied Hummingbird. the bird species known from the AOS Check-list area may Rallus longirostris Mangrove Rail. be found at http://checklist.aou.org/taxa. Rallus aquaticus Western Water-Rail. (A) The following changes to the 7th edition (page numbers Pluvialis apricaria European Golden-Plover. refer thereto) and its supplements result from the Charadrius veredus Oriental Plover. (A) Committee’s actions: Anous ceruleus Blue-gray Noddy. (H) Thalassarche eremita Chatham Albatross. (A) p. xii. The exclusion of Greenland from the AOS Ardea intermedia Intermediate Egret. (A) geographical area is reversed. Under the section Geo- Circus hudsonius Northern Harrier. graphic Coverage, change reference to the eastern Aulacorhynchus prasinus Northern Emerald-Toucanet. boundary of the AOS geographical area from ‘‘the Lanius borealis Northern Shrike. boundary between Canada and Greenland’’ to ‘‘Greenland.’’ Corvus frugilegus Rook. (A) Greenland is geographically, physiographically, and tec- Corvus cornix Hooded Crow. (A) tonically part of North America, and was considered part Sylvia atricapilla Eurasian Blackcap. (A) of the area of coverage from the first (AOU 1886) through Acrocephalus dumetorum Blyth’s Reed Warbler. (A) the fifth editions of the Check-list (AOU 1957). In the 6th Zoothera aurea White’s Thrush. (A) edition (AOU 1983), however, Greenland was removed Turdus pilaris Fieldfare. from the area, and seven species included only on the basis Turdus iliacus Redwing. of records from Greenland were transferred to the Toxostoma lecontei LeConte’s Thrasher. hypothetical list (Appendix B in that edition). We return Anthus pratensis Meadow Pipit. six of these species (Tadorna ferruginea, Rallus aquaticus, Crithagra mozambica Yellow-fronted Canary. (I) Charadrius veredus, Corvus frugilegus, C. cornix, and Acanthis cabaret Lesser Redpoll. (A) Anthus pratensis; the seventh species, Platalea leucorodia, Loxia sinesciurus Cassia Crossbill. was returned in Chesser et al. 2010) from the Appendix to RHODINOCICHLIDAE the main list, some with updated taxonomy, and add three PASSERELLIDAE new species (Sylvia atricapilla, Zoothera aurea,and Melozone biarcuata White-faced Ground-Sparrow. Acanthis cabaret) on the basis of additional records from Melozone cabanisi Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. Greenland (Boertmann 1994) in the appropriate sequence Ammodramus leconteii LeConte’s Sparrow. in the taxonomic section below. In addition, four species Junco bairdi Baird’s Junco. already on the main list (Anser brachyrhynchus, Pluvialis CALYPTOPHILIDAE apricaria, Turdus pilaris, and T. iliacus) are no longer PHAENICOPHILIDAE considered accidental, due to breeding in Greenland, and NESOSPINGIDAE the code ‘‘A’’ is removed from their names. SPINDALIDAE pp. xvii–liv. Change the number in the title of the list of ZELEDONIIDAE species to 2,143. Insert the following names in the proper TERETISTRIDAE position as indicated by the text of this supplement: ICTERIIDAE Xanthocephalinae Anser canagicus Emperor Goose. Dolichonychinae Anser caerulescens Snow Goose. Sturnellinae Anser rossii Ross’s Goose. Leistes militaris Red-breasted Blackbird. Anser brachyrhynchus Pink-footed Goose. Amblycercinae Tadorna ferruginea Ruddy Shelduck. (A) Cacicinae Sibirionetta formosa Baikal Teal. (A) Icterinae Spatula querquedula Garganey. (N) Agelaiinae Spatula discors Blue-winged Teal. Ptiloxena atroviolacea Cuban Blackbird. Spatula cyanoptera Cinnamon Teal. MITROSPINGIDAE The Auk: Ornithological Advances 134:751–773, Q 2017 American Ornithological Society R. T. Chesser, K. J. Burns, C. Cicero, et al. 58th Supplement to AOS Check-list 753 Delete the following names: Mareca penelope Mareca americana Anser brachyrhynchus Pink-footed Goose. (A) Anas laysanensis