134 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Haematopus ostralegus Linn. ^ 



M. C. Z. No. 67841. There is scant room for doubt that this is the 

 individual figured by Wilson, 8, 1814, pi. 64, fig. 2, whatever the 

 original of his description may have been. It is a European Oyster- 

 Catcher, not paUiatus. There is also a specimen of H. palliatus in the 

 collection. In C. W. Peak's MS. " A Walk through the Philadelphia 

 Museum," page 113, a pair of Oyster-Catchers in the Museum are 

 referred to: — " the darkest of this pair is from England, and the other 

 from Cape May." 



Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Vieill.). 



M. C. Z. No. 67842. This is without much doubt the original of 

 T. R. Peale's beautiful figure of the Wild Turkey Cock in Bonaparte's 

 "American Ornithology," 1, 1825, pi. 9. 



EcTOPiSTES MiGRATORius (Linn.). 



M. C. Z. No. 67843. A fine specimen of this extinct species con- 

 forms so well to Wilson's figure, 5, 1812, pi. 44, fig. 1, that I incline 

 to think it is the subject he drew. 



Catharista urubu (Vieill.). 



Vultur atratus Ord, Wils. Amer. Orn., 9, 1814, p. 104, pi. 75, fig. 2. 



M. C. Z., No. 67844. Wilson's figure was very likely drawn from 

 this specimen, with some adaptation to the life attitude of feeding 

 on the carcass of a sheep. 



BUTEO LINEATUS LINEATUS (GmcL). 



M. C. Z. No. 67845. Probably the model for Wilson's figure, 9, 

 1812, pi. 53, fig. 3. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linn.) . 



M. C. Z. Nos. 67846, 67847. One of these birds, a fine adult in full 

 plumage, is the one shown on Wilson's plate 36 (6, 1812). Its atti- 



