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OCEANITES OCEANICUS (Kuhl). 



Procellaria pelagica Wils., 7, 1813, p. 90, pi. 60, fig. 6. Nee Linn. 



Procellaria wilsonii Bonap., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 3, 1824, p. 231, pi. 9. 



M. C. Z. No. 67815. A specimen of Wilson's Petrel agrees so well 

 with the figure dfawn by T. R. Peale for Bonaparte that I have no 

 doubt of its being the figured type of Procellaria wilsonii Bonap. 



Anhinga anhinga (Linn). 



Plotus melanogaster Ord, Wils. Amer. Orn., 9, 1814, p. 82, pi. 74, fig. 2. Nee 

 Gmel. 



M. C. Z. Nos. 67816, 67817. A pair, the female (No. 67817)' with- 

 out doubt the one figured by Wilson (pi. 74, fig. 2). In a MS. in the 

 possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society entitled "A Walk 

 through the Philadelphia Museum, by C. W. Peale," a pair of An- 

 hingas are referred to on page 94, — one as collected at Elk Ridge, 

 on the Pelapsewa River, the other in Georgia. Mr. J. D. Sornborger 

 made extracts from this manuscript when he was in Philadelphia a 

 few years ago. 



Mergellus albellus (Linn.). 



M. C. Z. No. 67818. One specimen, without question the original 

 of Wilson's figure of Mcrgus alhdlus, 8, LS14, pi. 71, fig. 4. Audubon 

 was convinced that Wilson copied this bird from a European specimen 

 in Peale's Museum (Ornithological Biography, 4, 1838, p. 350, Birds 

 of America, 6, 1843, p. 408). 



Aix SPONSA (Linn.). 



M. C. Z. No. 67819. Probably the original of Wilson's figure of 

 Anas sponsa, 8, 1814, pi. 70, fig. 3. 



SOMATERIA DRESSERI Sharpc. 



Anas mollissima Wils., 8, 1814, p. 122, pi. 71, fig. 2. Nee Linn. 



M. C. Z. No. 67820. Perhaps the original of Wilson's figure. 



