ADDENDA. 



Page 148.— In the Key to the Genera of Scolopacida3 the genus 

 Totanus was accidentally overlooked. This omission may be cor- 

 rected by substituting for the matter following "/■" and ''/r/t" the 

 following : 



k. Bill stouter, its depth at base equal to more than one-eighth the length of exposed 

 culmen, the latter nearly as long as tarsus; rump white or mostly white. 



I. Larger (\ving 176-191 mm.); bill distinctly upturned distally; tarsus nearly 



twice as long as middle toe without claw; no white on secondaries. 



Glottis (p. 322). 



II. Smaller (wing 144-160 mm.); bill not upturned distally; tarsus much less than 



twice (but little more than one and a half times) as long as middle toe without 



claw; secondaries white Totanus (p. 342). 



kk. Bill more slender, its depth at base equal to not more than one-eighth the length 

 of exposed culmen, the latter much shorter than tarsus; rump not white or 

 mostly white Neoglottis (p. 329). 



In the selection of generic names, the author has not followed 

 certain authorities m adopting the following. It may be that 

 Catharada and Rubicola should be adopted in lieu of Megalestris 

 and FMlohela, respectively. Chlidonias I consider ineligible on 

 account of the manner of publication; the remainder are names given 

 by an anonymous author and therefore, according to my view, not 

 eligible. 



Catharada Brunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, 32. (Type, as designated by Coues, 1863, 

 C. skua Brunnich.) 



Chlidonias Rafinesque, Kentucky Gazette [newspaper], n. s., i, no. 8, Feb. 21, 

 1822, 3. (Type, by monot}'py, C. mclanops Raiincsque = Sterna surinamensis 

 Gmelin.) 



Rubicola "Vieill [ot]" Jameson, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., iii, 1831, 98. (Type, 

 by monotypy, Scolopax minor Gmelin.) 



Philomachus [Anonymous] Allg. Lit.-Zeitung, 1804, ii, no. 168, June 8, 1804, 

 col. 542. (Type, by monotypy, Tringa pugnax liinnseus.) 



Canutus [Anonymous] Allg. Lit.-Zeitung, 1804, ii, no. 168, June 8, 1804, col. 

 542. (Type, by monotypy and tautonjiny, "Knot der Englischen Natur- 

 forscher" = Tringa canutus Linn:yus.) 



Calidris [Anonymous] Allg. Lit.-Zeitung, 1804, ii, no. 168, June 8, 1804, col. 

 542. (Type, by tautonymy, Tringa calidris, no authority cited, but proba- 

 bly the species so named in Bechstein's Taschenbuch, p. 308.) 



In the preparation of the synonymies of this volume it was not 

 possible to verify references taken, "at second hand," from a con- 

 siderable number of works cited, of which the following constitute 

 the principal ones. Consequently, orthographies may^lnot always be 



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