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Catalogue No. 



10. JSgiothus fuscescens, CouES, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1861, 222. (Labrador.) =No. 179 



(midsummer plumage). 



11. xE(jiotlms rostmtm, CouES, 1. c. (Greenland.) =No. 179a (midsummer plumage). 



12. Centronyx oclirocephalus, Aiken, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 237. (El Paso Co., Colorado.) 



= No. 191 (autumual plumage). 

 .13. Passo'culus caboti, B. B »& R. Hist. N. Am. B. iii. 1874, pi. xlvi. fig. 9. (Nahant, 

 Massachusetts.) = No. 233. IJSfot deacrihed ! \ 



14. Sjjizella evum, CouES, The Ibis, 1865, 118, 164. (Ft. Whipple, Ariz.) =No. 



215, young. 



15. Passerella obscura, Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. ix. 1862, 153. (Anticosti I.) 



=:No. 235, young. 



16. Hedymeles melanocephalus var. capitalis, B. B. &c R. Hist. N. Am. B. ii. 1874, 74. 



(Pacific coast of Mexico and United States.) =No. 245. 



17. &Miraca ccBrwZea var. ewr%nc7ta, CouES, Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 563. (Mexico.) =No. 



246. 



18. Dolichonyx oryzivarus Tar. albinucha, Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. v. Nov. 1873, 192. 



(Missouri plains to Salt Lake Valley.) =No. 257. 



19. Empidonax jiygmceus, Minot, Land and Game Birds New England, 1877, — . (Near 



Boston, Mass.) lAvis Jictita! ] 



20. Dryobates liyloscopus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. June 25, 1863, 69. (San Jo86, 



Cal.) =No. 360&. 



21. Dryobates homorus, Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. June 25, 1863, 65. (California.) 



= No. 361a. 



22. Picus cuvieri, Malh. Mon. Pic. i. 1861, 85, pi. 22, fig. 3. (North America.) =No. 



360, 9 ad. 



23. Ficus turati, Malh. Mon. Pic. i. 1861, 125, pi. 29, figs. 5, 6, 7. (California and 



Rocky Mountains.) = No. 361, $ ad. 



24. Cliamcepelia passerina var. pallescens, Baird, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, 305. 



(Cape St. Lucas.) =No. 465. 



25. Pediocwtes kennicotti, SucKi.. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1861, 361. =No. 478. 



26. Bonasa jobsii, Jaycox, Am. Nat. 



27. Ibis thalassinus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. viii. Feb. 1874, 110. (Pacific coast of America, 



from California to Chili.) =:No. 504, juv. 



28. Ardea cyanirostris, CORY, Birds of the Bahama Islands, 1880, — . (Bahamas.) 



= No. 492, breeding plumage. 



29. Cygnus passmorei, Hincks, Pr. Linn. viii. 1864, 1. (Toronto, Canada.) =:No. 589, 



juv. 



30. Bernicla barnstoni, Ross, Canad. Nat. vii. April, 1862, — . = 594, var. ? 



31. Bernicla leucolwma, MuRRY, Ediub. Phil. Jour. April, 1859, 226, pi. 4, fig. 1. = 594, 



var. 



32. Pelecanus occipitalis, RiGDW. Am. Sportsman, iv. 1874, 297. (Nevada.) =No. 



640, adult, breeding plumage, after loss of occipital crest, the latter replaced 

 by dusky-grayish patch. 



33. Thalasseus caspius var. imperator, CoUES, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1862, 538, in text. 



(North America.) = No. 680. 



34. Sterna portlandica, Ridgw. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 433. (Portland, Maine.) =No. 



687, jux\, second year 



35. Sterna fuliginosa var. crissalis, Baikd, Pr. Boston Soc. xiv. 1872, 285. (Socorro 



I., N. W. Mexico.) =:No. 681. 



wing-bands are merely indicated. The bill is very characteristic. It is somewhat weaker at the base 

 than in L. hornemanni, but longer and remarkably darker in all seven specimens. 



"The bird figured by Dresser on the second plate (lower figure) belongs here, and is by no means the 

 young of L. hornemanni, as sujjposed by Uresser." 



[This description accords well in every particular with the dark summer stage oi JEgiothus linaria 

 holbolli, described in 1861 by Dr. Coues as JE. rostratus, the type of which came from Greenland. — H. R.J 



