214 I- Vertebrata. 



London, aber ohne Diagnosen der Arten und Gattungen. Die Gruppe 1st als 

 Familie betrachtet, umfaflt 176 Arten und 1st in 9 Unterfamilien und 42 Gat- 

 tungen getheilt. 



Anas caryophyllacea. Habitation in India ; A. Hume, Stray Featli. Vol. 8. Nr. 6. 

 p. 501. gracilis Bull, is distinct from Qu. yilberifrons Mull. Trom Celebes) 

 but only geographical race or synonym of A. castanea Eyton : Hut ton, Trans. 

 Proc. New Zeal. Inst. Vol. 12. p. 272. 



Camptolaemus labradorius observed Dec. 1 878 in Chemung country N.Y. ; G. Gregg, 

 Amer. Natur. 1879. p. 128. 



Erismatura leucocephala killed near Kalat-i-Ghilzai, Persien ; A. Hume, Stray 

 Feath. Vol. 8. Nr. 6. Dec. 1879. p. 456458. 



Fuligula marila and ferina breeding in Ireland; L. Cox, Zoologist. Vol. 4. 

 Nr. 42, p. 255. 



Mareca penelope regularly occurring on American coasts ; R. Deane, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club. Vol. 5. Nr. 2. p. 126. 



Nomonyx n. gen. (Typus : Erismatura dominica L.); R. Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 1880 81. (March 27. 1S80 1 p. 15. Similar to Erismatura, but 

 differing from all the species of that genus in the form of the maxillary unguis, 

 which is similar to that of Fulix and allied genera , the same being in Erismatura 

 the most peculiar and important generic character. 



Querquedula carolinensis shot in Devon, November 1879; H. Nicholls, Zoologist. 

 Vol. 4. Nr. 38 p. 70. shot in Hampshire; A. Fellowes, ebenda formosa 

 killed near Delhi (India) ; A. Hume. Stray Feath. Vol. 8. Nr. 6. Dec. 1879. 

 p. 494. 



Sarcidiornis africana. Unterschiede von *S'. melanonota ; Barboza du Bocage, 

 Aves Poss.port. VigesimaLista, Jorn. Sc. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa. Nr. 29. 1880. 



Somateria spectabilis at the Fame Islands; J. Cordeaux, Zoologist. Vol.4. Nr. 48. 

 p. 514; at Buffalo N. Y. ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club. Vol. 5. Nr. 1. Jan. 1880. 

 p. 62. On the Californian Coast, ebenda. Nr. 3. p. 189. 



Fam. Cygnidae. 



Cygnus americanus obtained in Scotland 26. Dec. 1879; A. Parker, Zoologist. 



'Vol. 4. Nr. 39. p. 111. Benicki killed in Norfolk IS.Febr., J. H. Gurney, 



Zoologist. Vol. 4. Nr. 40. p. 139; Unterschiede von C. musicus; 0. Finsch, 



Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. Jahrg. 1879. 29. Bd. (Wien 1880) p. 257. --olor. 



Nisten in der Uckermark (Nord-Deutschland) : R. SpieB, Journ. f. Orn. Heft 



3. p. 331. 



Fam. Anseridae. 

 Amer albifrons, shot in Northamptonshire. January 1880; Li If or d, Zoologist. Vol. 



4. Nr. 38. p. 66. cinereus, albifrons, erythropus^ segetum, brachyrhynchus and 

 indicus described; A. Hume, Stray Feath. Vol. 8. Nr. 2 5. 1879. p. 419- 

 421. - - nificollis in Finnland erlegt ; Palm en, Ornith. Centralbl. Nr. 11. p. 85. 

 Capture dans le departement de la Seine-Inferieure ; P. E. Lemetteil, Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. France. 1. et 2. P. p. 75. 



Fam. Charadriidae. 



Aegialites curonicus , Wintergast, in Indien und Ceylon, Aeg. minutus (Pall.) ist 

 curonicus juv. ; W. V. Legge, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880. Pt. I. June 1. p. 38. 

 hiaticula killed near Sultanpur in the Goorgaon District (India) ; A. Hume, 

 Stray Feath. Vol. 8. Nr. 25. 1879. p. 197201. Jordan* Legge Strand- 

 vogel auf Ceylon; Legge, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880. Pt. I. p. 39. 

 on Long-Island; E. Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn, Club. Vol. 5. Nr. 3. p. 187. 



