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BOLLiNG's " Ornithologia Danica" represents undoubtedly a C. heiciclii, 

 although that on the i^late is called musicus, and although the author 

 in the text under the latter species refers to the same represeutation. 

 The yellow color on the beak has in fact precisely the peculiar limit of 

 that in hewickii. 



Note 5. — In riCDLEGEL's Mus. P.-B. Ameres^ p. 82, and in Degland 

 and Gerbe's Ornith. Europ. II, p. 474 (probably on his authority), as 

 synonymous with the sui^posed species, Cygnus altumii,* Badeker is 

 stated, without date and without naming the place from which the quo- 

 tation is taken. In Bonaparte's Cat. Ois. Eur. Parzudaki, 1858, in 

 Severzow's "Turkistanskie Jevotnie," 1873, and again in Mr. Dres- 

 ser's translation of the same in the Ibis, 1876, j). 410, also in Cab. Journ. 

 Ornith. 1875, j). 184, the name Cygnus altiimi occurs, but with the 

 author's name, Homeyer, added. Mr. E. v. Homeyeb has in the 

 meantime had the kindness to inform me as follows: "Neither I nor 

 any of my friends in Berlin have any knowledge that Badeker has 

 anywhere spoken of a C. altumii. Neither have I ever done so. ... I 

 repeat that t have never spoken about G. alUimii, and do not know how 

 Severzow can have quoted me." Prof. B. Altum writes to me that 

 the Swan described by him in Naumannia IV, p. 145, Badeker has 

 had figured with the name in question. He can, however, neither give 

 place nor date. 



Coll. Stejneger no. 394. ( ? ad. Soninie, Jadcleren, Norway, 58^ 53" 

 N. lat., 22d January, 1880. By Mr. SoPHUS A. Buch.) 



Totnl length of the newly-killed bird, 1,135""" ; length of the bill 

 along gape, 89""" ; from the hip to the front of the nostrils, 39'""' ; to 

 the fore border of the eye, 108"'™ ; length of toes with claws : outer toe 

 116, middle toe 124, inner toe 99, and hind toe 19"™. Tarsus 90, 

 wing 530, and tail 163"™. 



Bill, black on the whole surface from the tip to the front, and on the 

 sides to a point about 15'"™ behind the nostrils; the remainder and the 

 naked lores intense reddish-yellow, about of the same color as the pulp 

 of the blood-orange ; the border of the black color forms a very jagged 

 line ; on that part of the culmen which lies between the lateral yellow 

 spots the yellow color shines through the black, like the shadings in 

 marble ; along the forehead towards the eye both the beak and the 

 lores are black ; the lower jaw black, the margins with the lamellie dark 

 tiesh-colored ; the naked skin of the chin grayish-black, with trans- 

 l^arent faint yellowish marbled shadings. Feet, grayish-black. 



The plumage pure white, with a fine ashy-gray tinge on the sides of 

 the head, and edged with pale rust-color on the feathers of the fore- 

 head, crown, and cheeks. 



* Or altumi, as Degl. aud Gerbe, 1867, write it. 



