to the Genera of North American Birds, 63 



Wilson's Ornithology," as one of the twenty-five European genera 

 not found in America.* 



GENUS LXXVIII. bis. PHALERIS.+ 



N. B. In my analytical table of North American genera, this 

 genus must take place under the three-toed section of the family 

 of Pi/gopodes, between the genera Una and Mormon^ and be 

 thus characterized : 



78. bis. Phaleuis. Bill curved, compressed, longer than high ; 

 nostrils half closed by a naked membrane, pervious. 



Alca, L. Gm, Lath. 111. Cuv. VieiU. Phaleris, Temm. 



Sp. 359. bis. J Phaleris cerouhynca. Nob. Blackish; belly 

 whitish ; a few slender, elongated white feathers from the corners 

 of the eye and mouth ; bill smooth, surmounted at the base by a 

 long obtuse horny process. 



Inhabits the Western coasts of North America. 



Obs. This new species, the third well known of the genus, 

 from the remarkable anomaly of its bill may hereafter be con- 

 sidered by some Ornithologists as the type of a new genus, or at 

 least a subgenus. Hence we have been induced to apply to it a 

 specific name, which being compounded from the Greek might, 

 with propriety, become generic. 



I shall take this opportunity of noticing that in a collection of 

 birds from Havanna, sent to Mr. Vigors by Mr. MacLeay, I have 

 had the pleasure of finding a beautiful specimen, apparently a 

 male, of the new species of Dove, which I lately established under 

 the name of Columba Zenaida^ from a single female specimen 

 from the Florida Keys. The range of the species thus appears to 

 be not so limited as might have been supposed. 



* The two species of the genus may thus be eharacterized in the General 

 System of Ornithology. 



1. Cinclus aquaticus , Bechst. (bicolor Vieill.) Cinereo-brunneus, pectore albo. 

 Habitat in Europa et AsiS, Boreali. 



2. Cinclus Pallasii, Temm. [unicolor? nob.) Fusco-cinereus, pectore concolore. 

 Habitat in America, {an quoqucy Asia ?) Boreali. 



+ By the additions of three genera (Cinclus^ Aramus, Phaleris,) our North 

 American genera are carried to eighty-three, which, instead of eighty, ought to 

 be the number of Alca. 



J Making the whole number of North American species, 366. {Jlca tarda,) 



