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533. Aciodromas acuminata (Hnrsf.) Eidgw,— Obtained at St. Michaer.s, Alaska, by Mr. 

 E. W. Nelsou, U. S. Signal Service. . 



The single example forwarded l)y Mr. Nelson is without date or exact locality, and I have 

 been unable to get from him the desired information, my letter to him on the subject having 

 doubtless miscariied. The species is so important an addition to the fauna, ho-wever, that it 

 cannot be overlooked in the present connection, reluctant as we are to publish a note of its 

 occurrence without being able to furnish those data from the pen of Mr. Nelson himself, 

 -which woidd do him full justice, as the first discoverer of this Indian species on this con- 

 tinent. 



537. AcTODUOMAS r.AiKDii, Cones. — Proc. Phihul. Acad. 18(il, 194. (Arctic America.) 

 539. Felidua aJpina (Linn.) Boie.— TriM^ra alpina, Newton, Man. Nat. Hist. Grccul. 1875, 



103. (Greenland.) 

 541a. P]RKUXETES PUSILLUS occiDENTALis (Lawr. ) Cones. — E. occidcntalis, Lawr. Proc. 



riiilad. Acad. 1864, 107. (Pacific coast U. S.) 

 544. Limosa lapponica novw-zcalandiw, Gray. — L. uropygkiUs, Baird, Trans. Chicago 



Acad. i. 1869, 320, pi. 32. (Alaska.) 

 546. Limosa wfjocephala (Linn.) Leach.— C/. Reinii. Ibis, 1861, 11. (Greenland.) 

 551. Bhijacophilus ochropiis (Liun.) Ridgw.— C/". Brewer, Bull. Nntt. Oru. Club, iii. 



Jan. 1878, 49. (Nova Scotia.) 

 561. Ntimenius phwopns (Linn.) Lath.— C/. Reinii. Ibis, 1861, 10. (Greenland.) 

 56'J. Xiimcniun tuMliensis (Gmel.) Cass.— " XiimvHiiis femoralis, Peale ", Ridgw. Am. 



Nat. July, 1874, 435. (Kadiak, Ahiska; F. Bischoff.) 

 568. Farra (jjjmnosioma, Wagl.— C^. Merrill, BuU. Nutt. Oru. Club, 1. Nov. 1876, 88 



(Ft. Brown, Texas); Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. 1878, 167, pi. iii. 



(synonymy and descriptions). 

 570. Rallus obsoletus, Ridgw. — B. clegans, var. odsoletus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. viii. 



Feb. 1874, 111. (Coast California.) 

 571a. Rallus longirostris saturatus, Hensh.— C/. Ridgw. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 



July, 1880, 140. (Louisiana.) 

 573. Forzana maruetta (Leach) Bp. — " Orti/gomctra porzana (Linn.)", Reinh. Ibis, 



1881, 12. (Greenland.) 

 576a. Porzana jajiaicensis coturniculus, Baird. — F. jamaicensis, var. coturniculus, 



Baird, Am. Nat. viii. Feb. 1874, 111. (Farallone Islands, California.) 



586. Olor cygnus (Liun.) Bi^.—" Cggnus ferns, Ray", Reinh. Ibis, 1861, 13. (Green- 



land.) 



587. Olor minor (Pall.) Bp.— "C(/r/H«.s heivickii", Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. ii. 1831, 465. 



("Igloolik [Arctic America], lat. 66^^, June 19, 1823." Said to breed ''on the 

 sea-coast within the Arctic circle." The description, from specimens killed 

 at locality quoted above, is of the true 0. minor, or Bewick's Swan.) 



592. CiiEN Rossii (Baird) Ridgw.— .l/*st;j- rossii, "Baird, MSS.", Cass. Proc. Philad. 



Acad. 1881, 73. (Arctic America.) 



593. Anser albifrons (Gm.) .—Cf. Reinh. Il)is, 1861, 12. (Greenland.) 



603. Anas fulvigula, Ridgw. — A. ohsaira, var. ftdrignla, Am. Nat. viii. Feb. 1874, 



HI. (Florida.) 

 627a. SoMATERiA MOLLissiMA DRESSERi (Sharpc) Cones. — S. drcsseri, Sharpe, Ann. 



Mag. N. H. July, 1871, 51, tigs. 1,2. 



This bird has been called by all American writers S. mollissima. The true Eider, how- 

 ever, has only lately been detected in America, it being the form found by Mr. Kiimlieu 

 Ijreeding abundantly on the west side of Cumberland Gulf. 



631. Melanetta fusca (Linn.)— f/. Reiniiardt, Vid. Medd. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn, 



1879, 1. (Sou;h Greenland.) 

 646a. Fhalarrocorax violaccus 7-cspk)idens (And.) Ridgw. — Graculus Mirdii, "GRJiBER, 



MSS.", Cooper. Proc. Philad. Acad. Jan. 1865, 5. (Farallone Islands.) 



