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 GENUS CANCROMA. 

 Cancroma cochleafia is a South American bird. 



Page 318. 

 GENUS ARDEA. 

 A. americana belongs in genus Grus. 



A. hoactli, spadicea, hohou, virgata, striata and cana are of doubtful appli- 

 cation, though the first two probably apply to Nycticorax nycticorax 

 n&vius (Bodd.). 



A. minor \\i\s.=J:?otaurus Icntiginosus (Montag.). 



A. garden! Gm. = young Nycticorax n. nczvius (Bodd.). 



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 GENUS TANTALUS. 



T. minutus L. is probably a young Gnara rubra (L.). 



T. mexicanus Gm. is probably Plegadis autumnalis (Hasselq.). 



7". albicollis. A South American species now placed in G.eronticus. 



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 GENUS SCOLOPAX. 



S. nigra, nutans and Candida are of doubtful application. 



5. gallinula.=Gallinago gallinula (L.). a European species. 



S. melanoleuca, totanus and vociferus. Ord, in a manuscript note, 

 says that these are identical. There seem, however, to be two species, 

 Totanus totanus of Europe and T. melanoleucus of N. America ; 

 vociferus of Wilson being a synonym of the latter. 



S. glottis. Totanus glottis, a European species accidental in the United 

 States. 



S. calidris.=TotamiS calidris, another European bird. 

 5. noveboracensis.=Macrorhamphus griseus (Qm.). 

 S. semipalmata (Gm.). belongs in genus Symphemia, 



S. gallinago~W\\s.=Gallingodelicata. The true G. gallinago (L.) is a 

 .European species. 



