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400 bis (Appendix). JEgialifis cukonica (Gid.) Gray.*— This sup- 

 posed new species i)roves to be the Lesser Einged Plover of the Old 

 World, .Ji". curoniea (Gm.) Gray, the principal synonyms of which are 

 the following. It may be considered doubtful whether the specimen 

 really was obtained near San Francisco, as stated on the label. 



Charadnns cnwuicnx, Gmel., S. N., I, 1788, (VJ2. 



JE(j\aUlls mrouicuH, OIray, Cat. Brit. 15, 1883, 141.— Harting, Handb. Brit. B. 



1872, 1154. 

 Charadrim philippiiiufi, Lath., Ind. Oni., II, 1790, 745. 

 CliaradriuH fiuviatilh, Beciist., Natnrg. Vog. Dentsclil., 1809, 42-2. 

 Charadritis minor, Meyer & Wolf, Tascli. Vijg. Deutschl., 1810, 324. 



Charadrius intennedius, Men^tr., Catal. , 53. 



Charadrim zonaius, Swains., B. W. Afr., II, , 235, pi. 25. 



Mgialitis microrhyiichits, RiDGW., Am. Nat., VIII, Feb. 1874, 109 ("San Francisco, 



Cal."). 



408. Himantoims mexicanus (Miiller) Ord. — Miiller's name dates 

 3776; thirty-one years earlier than nigricolUs, Vieill. 



413. Scolopax eusticula (Linn.) Wharton. — See ''The Ibis," Oct., 

 1879, p. 453. 



442 Ms (Appendix). NumepAus tahitiensis (Gm.). — The earliest name 

 for the bird afterwards named Numenius femoralis by Mr. Peale is 

 Scolopax tahitiensis, Gmel. (S. N., I, ii, 1788, p. 050, n. 22). 



448. A.JAJA ROSEA (Briss.) Ridgw. — The American Spoonbill being a 

 7ery distinct generic type, for which Reichenbach proposed (in 1853) the 

 name Ajaja, it be(;omes necessary to change the si)e(;ilic name also. 

 There is not, unfortunately, any post-Liunaean synonym for this species, 

 with the exception of " Platea '•mexicana, Willoughby,' " as used by Gam- 

 bel in 1849 (Jour, of Philad. Acad., I, j). 222). Gambel, however, gives 

 no description; and, moreover, since the name ^^ mexicana^^ is simply 

 quoted from Willoughby, it seems best to adopt Brisson's very appro- 

 priate name of rosea, injustice to the accurate and complete description 

 of the species in the work of that author. 



454. Hydranassa tricolor (Miill.) Ridgw.— If tlie Herons are to 

 be subdivided at all, it seems quite necessary to recognize the generic 

 name which, in 1858, Professor Baird proposed for this species (B. N. 

 Am., p. 000), the earliest designation of which is Ardea tricolor, Miiller 



(1770). 



455. DiCHROMANASSA rufa (Bodd.) Ridgw. — See Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 and Geog. Survey Terr., vol. iv, no. 1, p. 240. 



400. Botaurus lentiginosus (Montag.) Stephens. — This appears to 

 be the earliest designation of the species. 



*Am. Nat., VIII, Feb., 1«74, p. 109. 



