The Auk 123(3):926–936, 2006 © The American Ornithologists’ Union, 2006. Printed in USA.
FORTY-SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS R C. B ,1,9,10 C C ,2 J L. D ,3 A W. K ,4 P C. R ,5 J. V. R , J .,6 J D. R ,7 D F. S 8 1U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-111, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA; 2Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3160, USA; 3RR2, Box 52R, Bishop, California 93514, USA; 4Florida Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 117800, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA; 5Michigan State University Museum and Department of Zoology, West Circle Drive, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1045, USA; 6Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Foster Hall 119, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA; 7Department of Zoology, Ramsay Wright Zoological Labs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G5, Canada; and 8Environmental and Conservation Programs, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, USA
This is the sixth Supplement since publica- resultant nomenclatural changes; (6) one subfam- tion of the 7th edition of the Check-list of North ily is elevated to status of family (Stercorariidae), American Birds (American Ornithologists’ Union with no resultant nomenclatural changes; (7) [AOU] 1998). It summarizes decisions made one genus (Asturina) is merged with another by the AOU’s Commi ee on Classifi cation and (Buteo), resulting in a new name combination Nomenclature—North America between 1 (B. nitidus); (8) one species (sissonii) is trans- January and 31 December 2005. The Commi ee ferred from one genus (Thryomanes) to another has continued to operate in the manner outlined (Troglodytes); and (9) two species (Myiozetetes in the 42nd Supplement (AOU 2000). Changes similis, Catharus mexicanus), in addition to three in this Supplement fall into the following cat- of the four added to the entire list [see (1) and egories: (1) three species are added because of (2) above], are added to the list of species known splits from species already on the list (Calonectris to occur in the United States. edwardsii, Dendragapus fuliginosus, Loxigilla bar- badensis); (2) one species is added because of More sweeping changes are involved in new distributional information (Frege a tropica); reclassifi cations of entire tribes or subfamilies (3) two species replace others presently on the because of new data on relationships, with list because of spli ing of extralimital forms resultant changes in several well-known sci- (Cuculus optatus, Ficedula albicilla); (4) one spe- entifi c names in each group. In the shorebird cies name (Streptopelia risoria) is changed because tribe Tringini, the genera Heteroscelus and of recognition of its status as a feral form of S. Catoptrophorus are merged into Tringa, with roseogrisea; (5) one family is merged into another resultant new name combinations for their three (Dendrocolaptidae into Furnariidae), with no included species. In the tern subfamily Sterninae, fi ve previously recognized generic names are resurrected for species placed in Sterna in the 9Authors are members of the Commi ee on 7th edition (AOU 1998)—Onychoprion, Sternula, Classi fi cation and Nomenclature of the American Gelochelidon, Hydroprogne, and Thalasseus—with Ornithologists’ Union, listed alphabetically a er the resultant new name combinations for 13 species Chairman. on the list. The cuckoo subfamily Coccyzinae 10E-mail: [email protected] is merged with Cuculinae, one old generic 926 July 2006] Forty-seventh Supplement 927 name (Coccycua) is resurrected, and two gen- Change Dendragapus obscurus from Blue era (Saurothera and Hyetornis) are merged into Grouse to Dusky Grouse Coccyzus, with resultant new name combina- Change Stercorariinae to STERCORARIIDAE tions for seven species. Changes of classifi cation and move the entire family to follow Rynchops of entire genera, tribes, subfamilies, and even niger. families will become more frequent as DNA evidence continues to provide new or confi rm Rearrange the fi rst 15 names in the family old concepts of relationships. Scolopacidae to the following sequence: Xenus cinereus Terek Sandpiper (N) The addition of four species to the list brings Actitis hypoleucos Common Sandpiper (N) the total known to occur in the Check-list area Actitis macularius Spo ed Sandpiper to 2,041. This Supplement presents new name Tringa ochropus Green Sandpiper (A) combinations for 28 species and replacements Tringa solitaria Solitary Sandpiper for three species on the list. Five generic names Tringa brevipes Gray-tailed Ta ler (N) go out of use, but six others are revived. One Tringa incana Wandering Ta ler new family name is used, and one family name Tringa erythropus Spo ed Redshank (N) and one subfamily name go out of use. Tringa melanoleuca Greater Yellowlegs Tringa nebularia Common Greenshank (N) Literature that provides the basis for the Tringa semipalmata Willet Commi ee’s decisions is cited at the end of the Tringa fl avipes Lesser Yellowlegs Supplement, and citations not already in the Tringa stagnatilis Marsh Sandpiper (A) Literature Cited of the 7th edition (with Supple- Tringa glareola Wood Sandpiper ments) become additions to it. An updated list of Tringa totanus Common Redshank (A) the bird species known from the AOU Check-list area may be found at
Remove the subfamily name Coccyzinae Notes.—Formerly considered conspecifi c and rearrange the species in it to the following with C. diomedea; see Pa eson and Armistead sequence: (2004) for a synopsis of the rationale for treat- Coccycua minuta Li le Cuckoo ment as separate species. Piaya cayana Squirrel Cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus Dark-billed Cuckoo (A) p. 23. Because of new distributional infor- Coccyzus americanus Yellow-billed Cuckoo mation, a genus and species are added to the Coccyzus euleri Pearly-breasted Cuckoo (A) Check-list. A er the account for Hydrobates Coccyzus minor Mangrove Cuckoo pelagicus, insert the following new generic name Coccyzus ferrugineus Cocos Cuckoo and species account: Coccyzus erythropthalmus Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus pluvialis Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo Genus FREGETTA Bonaparte Coccyzus rufi gularis Bay-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus vetula Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo Frege a Bonaparte, 1855, Compt. Rend. Acad. Coccyzus vieilloti Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo Sci., Paris, 41:1113. Type, by original designa- Coccyzus merlini Great Lizard-Cuckoo tion, Thalassidroma leucogaster Gould = Procellaria Coccyzus longirostris Hispaniolan Lizard- grallaria Vieillot. Cuckoo Frege a tropica (Gould). Black-bellied Storm- pp. 17–18. Calonectris edwardsii is recognized Petrel. as a species distinct from C. diomedea and is added to the list of species known to occur in Thalassidroma tropica Gould, 1844, Ann. Mag. the geographic limits of this Check-list. No Nat. Hist. 13:366. (equatorial regions of Atlantic explicit reasons were given for merging C. Ocean = lat. 6°33’N, long. 18°6’W, from “a” edwardsii into C. diomedea by Murphy (1924) and type preserved in the British Museum (Natural Peters (1931), who have been followed by most History). later authors. Calonectris edwardsii is consider- ably smaller than C. diomedea, has a thinner bill Habitat.—Pelagic waters; nests on islands. that is basally gray or pinkish rather than yel- Distribution.—Breeds on islands in the low or ivory, and is darker and grayer brown subantarctic zone circumpolarly from South on the upperparts; see Pa eson and Armistead Shetland Islands (Deception, Elephant), South (2004) for a synopsis of the rationale for treating Orkney Islands (Signy, Larsen, and Laurie), edwardsii as a separate species. South Georgia, Gough, Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, Auckland Islands, p. 18. A er the account for Calonectris dio- and Antipodes Islands. May breed on South medea, insert the following new account: Sandwich Islands, Bouvet, Heard, and the Bounty islands. Calonectris edwardsii (Oustalet). Cape Verde Ranges at sea north to subtropical and tropi- Shearwater. cal waters north to Equatorial waters in Pacifi c, Atlantic, and Indian oceans (recorded north to Puffi nus Edwardsii Oustalet, 1883, Ann. Sci. nearly 18 degrees north). Nat., Zool., Paris, ser. 6, art. 5, p. 1. (Branco, Accidental off North Carolina (77 km south- Cape Verde Islands.) east of Oregon Inlet, 31 May 2004; photos; Guris et al. 2004). Habitat.—Pelagic waters; nests in burrows Notes.—A previous report from St. Marks, on islands. Florida (AOU 1957), was relegated to the Distribution.—Breeds in the Cape Verde Appendix (AOU 1983, AOU 1998:687) under Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. White-bellied Storm-Petrel (Frege a grallaria). Ranges at sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mainly near the breeding grounds. pp. 96–100. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA Accidental off the coast of North Carolina sequence data (Riesing et al. 2003) shows that (48 km southeast of Ha eras Inlet, 15 August the genus Asturina is embedded within the 2004; photos; Pa eson and Armistead 2004). genus Buteo. Remove the entry for the genus July 2006] Forty-seventh Supplement 929
Asturina from p. 96. The citation for Asturina (Cascade Mountains, at foot of Mount Hood, should be placed in the synonymy of Buteo on Oregon, and Chiloweyuck Depot, Washington = p. 99, immediately following the citation for beneath Mount Hood, Hood River County, Buteo. Add to the Notes under the genus Buteo: Oregon.) See Banks and Browning (1979) for Includes Asturina, formerly (AOU 1998) treated citation and Deignan (1961) and Browning as distinct. (1979) for type locality. Habitat and Distribution as for fuliginosus Move the account for Asturina nitida from p. group in AOU (1998) account for D. obscurus. 97 and insert it on p. 100 following the account Notes.—Formerly merged with D. obscurus for Buteo platypterus, under the name “Buteo as Blue Grouse, but separated on the basis of nitidus (Latham). Gray Hawk.” genetic evidence (Barrowclough et al. 2004) and Add the following to Notes under Buteo diff erences in voice (hooting), behavior, and nitidus: Riesing et al. (2003) suggested that the plumage (Brooks 1929). groups should be recognized as distinct species, but did not provide supporting data. Formerly pp. 152 ff . Analysis of mitochondrial and (AOU 1998) treated in the genus Asturina, but nuclear DNA sequences in members of the Riesing et al. (2003) showed from mitochondrial shorebird tribe Tringini (Pereira and Baker DNA sequence data that recognition of the 2005) has shown that the species in the genera genus Asturina renders Buteo paraphyletic. Catoptrophorus and Heteroscelus are embedded within Tringa and should be merged into it, and p. 121. The two groups of Blue Grouse are that the genera Xenus and Actitis are basal in recognized as species on the basis of evidence the tribe. The resultant phylogeny necessitates from mitochondrial DNA sequence data a rearrangement of the species accounts in our (Barrowclough et al. 2004) that supports the list, with some new combinations of generic previous separation (AOU 1931, Hellmayr and and specifi c names (but no changes in English Conover 1942) based on behavior, plumage, and names), to the following sequence: vocalizations (e.g., Brooks 1929). Xenus cinereus (Güldenstädt) Replace the heading for the Blue Grouse with: Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus) A. macularius (Linnaeus) Dendragapus obscurus (Say). Dusky Grouse. Tringa ochropus Linnaeus T. solitaria Wilson The citation remains as it is. Habitat is as for T. brevipes (Vieillot) the obscurus group. Distribution is as for obscu- T. incana (Gmelin) rus group with the deletion of “from southeast- T. erythropus (Pallas) ern Alaska (except coastal areas),” and comma T. melanoleuca (Gmelin) following Yukon. Change Notes to: Previously T. nebularia (Gunnerus) included D. fuliginosus and called Blue Grouse, T. semipalmata (Gmelin) but now separated on the basis of genetic evi- T. fl avipes (Gmelin) dence (Barrowclough et al. 2004) and diff er- T. stagnatilis (Bechstein) ences in voice (hooting), behavior, and plumage T. glareola Linnaeus (Brooks 1929). Barrowclough et al. (2004) also T. totanus (Linnaeus) found a lesser genetic diff erence between north- ern and southern populations of D. obscurus that Following the heading “Tribe TRIGININI: does not correspond to currently recognized Tringinine Sandpipers” insert the following: subspecifi c boundaries. Notes.—Tringa incana and T. brevipes were formerly placed in the genus Heteroscelus Following the account for D. obscurus, insert Baird, and T. semipalmata was formerly placed the following: in the monotypic genus Catoptrophorus Gmelin (AOU 1998). Sequence here follows Pereira and Dendragapus fuliginosus (Ridgway). Sooty Baker (2005). Grouse. Canace obscura var. fuligniosa [sic] Ridgeway Remove the headings for the genera [sic], 1873, Forest and Stream 1(19):289. Catoptrophorus and Heteroscelus from p. 156, and 930 B . [Auk, Vol. 123 move the citations for these names into the syn- Genus Gygis Wagler onymy of the genus Tringa on pp. 152–153. Gygis alba (Sparrman) Genus Onychoprion Wagler p. 181. The subfamily Stercorariinae is Onychoprion fuscatus (Linnaeus) elevated to family status as a result of analyses Onychoprion lunatus (Peale) of DNA sequence data that show the family is Onychoprion anaethetus (Scopoli) sister to the Alcidae and not part of Laridae Onychoprion aleuticus (Baird) (Ericson et al. 2003, Paton et al. 2003, Fain and Genus Sternula Boie Houde 2004). Replace the subfamily heading Sternula albifrons (Pallas) with Family STERCORARIIDAE: Skuas and Sternula antillarum Lesson Jaegers. Remove the entire new family (pp. Sternula superciliaris (Vieillot) 181–183) from the Laridae and place it follow- Genus Phaetusa Wagler ing the larid subfamily Rynchopinae and before Phaetusa simplex (Gmelin) the family Alcidae (p. 208). Genus Gelochelidon C. L. Brehm Following the heading “Family STER- Gelochelidon nilotica (Gmelin) CORARII DAE: Skuas and Jaegers” insert the Genus Hydroprogne Kaup following: Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas) Notes.—Formerly considered a subfamily Genus Larosterna Blyth of the Laridae (AOU 1998), but analyses of Larosterna inca (Lesson) sequence data indicate that it is more closely Genus Chlidonias Rafi nesque related to the Alcidae (Ericson et al. 2003, Paton Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus) et al. 2003, Fain and Houde 2004). Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck) Chlidonias hybrida (Pallas) pp. 196–207. Bridge et al. (2005) analyzed mito- Genus Sterna Linnaeus chondrial DNA of terns (except Procelsterna) and Sterna dougallii Montagu correlated the results with plumage characters. Sterna hirundo Linnaeus The data show that the genus Sterna as currently Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan defi ned by AOU (1983, 1998) is paraphyletic, Sterna forsteri Nu all and that to keep it monophyletic would require Genus Thalasseus Boie the merger of Phaetusa, Larosterna, and Chlidonias Thalasseus maximus (Boddaert) into Sterna. Further, members of several distinct Thalasseus bergii (Lichtenstein) genetic clusters share crown pa erns that corre- Thalasseus sandvicensis (Latham) spond with formerly recognized genera. Because Thalasseus elegans (Gambel) of the new phylogenetic data and because these genera were merged without comment or expla- Under the generic headings and citations for nation, a generic revision is warranted. Rather the genera Onychoprion, Sternula, Gelochelidon, than merge additional genera into Sterna, we Hydroprogne, and Thalasseus, insert the fol- follow the recommendation by Bridge et al. lowing: Notes.—Formerly (AOU 1983, 1998) (2005) to resurrect four generic names currently included in the genus Sterna but separated on placed in the synonymy of Sterna (p. 196) with the basis of genetic data that correspond to the citations given—Thalasseus Boie, Sternula plumage pa erns (Bridge et al. 2005). Boie, Hydroprogne Kaup, and Gelochelidon C. L. Brehm. One other generic name is revived— p. 221. The name Streptopelia risoria is applied Genus Onychoprion Wagler, 1832, Isis 25, to a long-domesticated (o en feral) form of S. col. 277. Type, by monotypy, Sterna serrata roseogrisea (Goodwin 1983, Sibley and Monroe Wagler = Sterna fuscata Linnaeus. This revised 1990, Baptista et al. 1997). We follow these classifi cation results in a new sequence of genera authors in using the name of the wild spe- and species as follows: cies (roseogrisea) in place of the name based on Genus Anous Stephens domesticated birds. This follows the principle Anous stolidus (Linnaeus) set forth in Opinion 2027 of the International Anous minutus Boie Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Genus Procelsterna Lafresnaye (2003) that conserved the usage of specifi c Procelsterna cerulea (Benne ) names based on wild species of mammals that July 2006] Forty-seventh Supplement 931 are predated by or contemporary with names Kamchatka, and south from Kazakhstan based on domesticated forms. through Mongolia, northern China and South In the citation for the generic name Korea to Japan and the Nansei-shoto Islands. Streptopelia, add to the designation of the type Winters from the Malay Peninsula and species “= Columba roseogrisea Sundevall.” Vietnam to the Philippines, Micronesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, northern and Replace the account of S. risoria with the follow- eastern Australia, and Lord Howe Island. ing account: Wanders casually to the western Aleutian Islands (A u, Rat Islands), the Pribilof Islands Streptopelia roseogrisea (Sundevall). African (St. Paul), St. Lawrence Island, and (once) to Collared-Dove. the western Alaskan mainland (Cape Prince of Wales). Columbam roseogriseam (accusative case) Notes.—Previously considered conspe- Sundevall, 1857, Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Akad, Handl. cifi c with C. saturatus Blyth, 1843 [Himalayan (n.s.) no. 1, art. 3, p. 54. (Nubia.) Cuckoo] and C. lepidus S. Müller, 1845 [Sunda Cuckoo] but separated on the basis of diff er- Habitat.—Arid country with trees and shrubs, ences in vocalizations and morphological char- o en near human habitation. Feral populations acters (Payne 2005). Formerly known as C. s. occur mainly in urban and suburban parks. horsfi eldi and as Horsfi eld’s Cuckoo. Distribution.—Resident in northeastern Africa and southwestern Arabia. pp. 246–250. An analysis of mitochondrial Introduced and established as feral popu- DNA and ribosomal RNA sequences (Sorenson lations of domesticated stock in west-central and Payne 2005) produced a phylogeny for Florida (Pinellas County), the Bahamas (New the family Cuculidae in which the subfamily Providence), and Puerto Rico. Other introduced Cuculinae is paraphyletic with respect to the populations in North America have failed to Coccyzinae. Therefore, we merge the Coccyzinae become established. into the Cuculinae. Delete the heading Subfamily Notes.—Also known as Ringed Turtle-Dove COCCYZINAE: New World Cuckoos. and Barbary Dove. The widely domesticated and locally introduced populations (Goodwin The study by Sorenson and Payne (2005) fur- 1983) have been known as S. risoria (Linnaeus, ther showed that the species now (AOU 1998) in 1758). Present North American feral popula- the genera Saurothera and Hyetornis are embed- tions may be entirely human-dependent and ded within Coccyzus, and that the genus Piaya not self-sustaining. is not monophyletic if minuta is included, the la er forming a monophyletic group with two p. 246. We follow Payne (2005) in separating South American species to be recognized as the Cuculus optatus and C. lepidus from C. saturatus genus Coccycua. The resultant phylogeny neces- on the basis of diff erences in vocalizations and sitates a rearrangement of the species accounts minor morphological features. Records from our in our list, with some new combinations of area are of C. optatus. The account for Cuculus generic and specifi c names (but no changes in saturatus should be replaced with the following: English names), to the following sequence: Coccycua minuta (Vieillot) Cuculus optatus Gould. Oriental Cuckoo. Piaya cayana (Linnaeus) Coccyzus melacoryphus Vieillot Cuculus optatus Gould 1845, Proc. Zool. Soc. Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus) London, 1845: 18. (Port Essington, northern Coccyzus euleri Cabanis Australia.) Coccyzus minor (Gmelin) Coccyzus ferrugineus Gould Habitat.—Forested regions, in coniferous, Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson) mixed, and deciduous woodlands. Coccyzus pluvialis (Gmelin) Distribution.—Breeds from Finland and Coccyzus rufi gularis Hartlaub Komi, western Russia, east through Russia Coccyzus vetula (Linnaeus) south of the Arctic Circle to Anadyrland and Coccyzus vieilloti (Bonaparte) 932 B . [Auk, Vol. 123
Coccyzus merlini (d’Orbigny) January 2004; photo in North American Birds Coccyzus longirostris (Hermann) 59:368, 2004).
Following the account for Cuculus optatus pp. 479, 481. An analysis of mitochondrial (see above), before the account for Coccycua DNA sequence data (Martinez Gómez et al. minuta (formerly Piaya minuta), insert the 2005) showed that Thryomanes sissonii is embed- generic citation: ded in the Troglodytes clade and is a member of the Troglodytes aedon species complex. Remove Genus COCCYCUA Lesson the species account from its present position and move it to p. 481 following the account for Coccycua Lesson, 1830, Traité d’Orn., livr. 2, Troglodytes aedon, as follows: p. 142. Type, by monotypy, Cuculus monachus Lesson = Coccyzus minutus Vieillot. Troglodytes sissonii (Grayson). Socorro Wren. Notes.—Includes two extralimital species The citation (synonymy), habitat, and distri- usually placed in Coccyzus (e.g., Payne 1997) bution remain unchanged. Change the Notes to and minuta, formerly (AOU 1998) placed in read as follows: Piaya. Analysis of DNA sequence data showed Notes.—Placed in the genus Thryomanes by this former arrangement to be paraphyletic Oberholser (1898) because of similarities to (Sorenson and Payne 2005). Thryomanes bewickii in bill structure. Phillips (1986) used the specifi c name insularis Lawrence Remove the generic headings and notes for and placed the species in Troglodytes; see Banks Saurothera and Hyetornis, and place the names and Browning (1995) for comments on nomen- and citations in the synonymy of the genus clature. It is here placed in Troglodytes because Coccyzus. Following the heading and citation analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence data for the genus Coccyzus, insert the following: (Martinez Gómez et al. 2005) revealed that it is Notes.—Includes species formerly placed in part of the T. aedon complex. Howell and Webb the genera Saurothera (vetula, vieilloti, merlini, (1995) treated the species in Troglodytes on the and longirostris) and Hyetornis (pluvialis and basis of voice, behavior, and plumage. rufi gularis), now included in Coccyzus on the basis of DNA sequence data (Sorenson and p. 494. Ficedula albicilla is recognized as dis- Payne 2005). tinct from F. parva (Svensson et al. 2005) on the basis of diff erences in song, plumage pa ern p. 354. Two independent genetic data sets and molt sequence, and divergent mtDNA. (Irestedt et al. 2002, Chesser 2004) strongly indi- Replace the account for F. parva with the fol- cate that the Furnariidae is paraphyletic with lowing: respect to the Dendrocolaptidae because the furnariid genera Sclerurus and Geosi a (extra- Ficedula albicilla (Pallas). Taiga Flycatcher. limital) are basal to Dendrocolaptidae and the rest of the Furnariidae. This confi rms suspicions Muscicapa Albicilla Pallas, 1811, Zoographia dating back to at least Ihering (1915), and is Rosso-Asiat., 1, p. 462. (Dauriya, near the Onon consistent with morphological data (e.g., Ames [Russia].) 1971, Feduccia 1973). Therefore, we merge the Family Dendrocolaptidae into the Furnariidae. Habitat.—Deciduous and mixed taiga forest. Remove the heading and Notes for the Family Distribution.—Breeds from eastern Russia Dendrocolaptidae. There are no changes in east across Siberia to Anadyrland, the Sea of sequence or names at this time. Okhotsk, and Kamchatka, south to the Altai, northern Mongolia, and Ussuriland. p. 408. A new distributional record adds a Winters from west-central India through species to the list of birds known to occur in Bangladesh and south-east Asia to the upper the United States. In the account for Myiozetetes Malay Peninsula. similis, add to the Distribution: Casual in Alaska in the western Aleutian Accidental in Texas (near Bentsen-Rio Islands (A u, Shemya) and St. Lawrence Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, 7–14 Island. July 2006] Forty-seventh Supplement 933
Notes.—Formerly considered conspecifi c Loxigilla barbadensis Sporophile de Barbade with F. parva (Bechstein, 1792) [Red-breasted Flycatcher] but recognized as distinct on the Delete the entries for the following: basis of diff erences in voice, plumage pat- Streptopelia risoria tern, molt sequence, and mitochondrial DNA Cuculus saturatus sequence data (Svensson et al. 2005). Also Thryomanes sissonii known as Red-throated Flycatcher. Ficedula parva
p 503. A new distributional record adds a Move the species from Stercorarius skua through species to the list of birds known to occur in the Stercorarius longicaudus to a position following United States. In the account for Catharus mexi- Rynchops niger. canus, add to the Distribution: Accidental in Texas (Pharr, Hidalgo County, Rearrange, with appropriate changes, the fi rst 28 May-early August, 19–29 October 2004; pho- 15 scientifi c names in the family Scolopacidae tograph in Lockwood and Bates 2005). to the following sequence, with no change in French names: p. 596. The Barbados population of Loxigilla Xenus cinereus noctis diff ers from populations on other islands Actitis hypoleucos in the Lesser Antilles by being sexually mono- Actitis macularius chromatic, in several behavioral characters, and Tringa ochropus genetically (Buckley and Buckley 2004), and is Tringa solitaria recognized as a species. Insert the following Tringa brevipes account a er that of L. noctis: Tringa incana Tringa erythropus Loxigilla barbadensis Cory. Barbados Bullfi nch. Tringa melanoleuca Tringa nebularia Loxigilla barbadensis Cory, 1886, Auk 3:382. Tringa semipalmata (Barbados.) Tringa fl avipes Tringa stagnatilis Habitat.—Tropical Lowland Evergreen Tringa glareola Forest, Secondary Forest, Tropical Deciduous Tringa totanus Forest (0–300 m). Distribution.—Resident on Barbados in the Rearrange, with appropriate changes, the sci- Lesser Antilles. entifi c names from Sterna nilotica through Gygis Notes.—Formerly considered a subspecies alba to the following sequence, with no change of L. noctis, but treated here as a separate spe- in French names: cies because of diff erences in plumage (sexual Gygis alba monochromatism), behavioral traits (e.g., Onychoprion fuscatus foraging behavior), and genetics (summarized Onychoprion lunatus by Buckley and Buckley 2004) consistent with Onychoprion anaethetus specifi c status. Onychoprion aleuticus Sternula albifrons p. 705 ff . In the list of French names of North Sternula antillarum American Birds, make the following changes: Sternula superciliaris Phaetusa simplex Insert in the appropriate place in main list: Gelochelidon nilotica Calonectris edwardsii Puffi n du Cap-Vert Hydroprogne caspia Frege a tropica Océanite à ventre noir Larosterna inca Dendragapus fuliginosus Tétras fuligineux Chlidonias niger Streptopelia roseogrisea Tourterelle rieuse Chlidonias leucopterus Cuculus optatus Coucou oriental Chlidonias hybrida Troglodytes sissonii Troglodyte de Socorro Sterna dougallii Ficedula albicilla Gobemouche de la taïga Sterna hirundo 934 B . [Auk, Vol. 123
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