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A. viduata ~L,.=Dcndrocygna viduata (L. ) a South American and West 

 African species. 



A. arborea ~L,.~Dendrocygna arborea (L.) a West Indian species. 



A. fuligula L, is a European bird. Wilson, however, used the name for 

 Aythya collaris (Donov.). 



A. spinosa ,m..Nonionyx dominions (L.). 



A. crecca of Wilson and some others Anas Caroline us is. The true A. 

 crecca is a European bird. 



A. fulva belongs in Dendrocygna. 



A. fuscescens, georgica and novcehispanice are of doubtful application. * 



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P. onocrotalus L,. is a European species. Ord meant our P. erythror- 

 hynchos. 



P. caro/inens/s Gin. ^7*. fit sens L. 



P. aquilus.^Fregaia aquila (L. ) 



P. tfiagus Moll, is probably the Pclccanus niolince Gray. 



P. fiber 'L/.S/t/a snla I,. 



P. parvus Gm. is doubtful, but certainly a Sula. 



P. graculus-^P/talacrocorax cristatus L,., a European species. 



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 GENUS PLOTUS. 



P. surinamensis Gm. - Helioniis fidica Bodd., a South American bird. 



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With slight exceptions Ord's bird notes on this and following pages are 

 a transcript from Wilson's Ornithology, many of them, however, being 

 quoted from his own contributions to that work as editor. 



The brief notes already appended to Ord's catalogue of Birds are 



Ord has nililrd a note in lead pencil at foot of tieniis Ana.-. p:i;je:;i!i, as follows: ' Lewis's Red 

 headed I). A. nitirapilla. 1 ' Tlii* cuniiot refer to the "red-beaded BshiDg-duck" of L. & C'., vol. 2, p. 



]:i:;. as the description expressly slates it is the same as mir eastern .Mer<r:tnser. On pajfe I!l5 i su)i. 

 cit. ) 1,. v\; ('. describe a Duck which is said to have "the head, the neck etc. of tine deep Mack 

 With a slight mixture of purple about the head and neck." Thisisthe: only other Duck mentioned 

 by I.. >V ('. to which Ord's lead pencil name can at all apply. Dr. Coues il8<.o ed. L. & C'., p. 889) 

 identifies this duck as .l(/t/,yu ///'(//* i Donov. i. 



