222 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Catalogue No. 
533. Actodromas acuminata (Horsf.) Ridgw.—Obtained at St. Michael’s, Alaska, by Mr. 
_E. W. Nelson, U. 8. Signal Service. 
The single example forwarded by 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 miscaried. The species is so important an addition to the fauna, however, 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 would do him full justice, as the first discoverer of this Indian species on this con- 
tinent. 
537. ACTODROMAS BAIRDII, Coues.—Proce. Philad. Acad. 1861, 194. (Arctic America. ) 
539. Pelidna alpina (Linn.) Boie.—Tringa alpina, NEwToNn, Man. Nat. Hist. Greenl. 1875, 
103. (Greenland. ) 
541a. EREUNETES PUSILLUS OCCIDENTALIS (Lawy.) Coues.—Z£. occidentalis, LAwR. Proc. 
Philad. Acad. 1864, 107. (Pacific coast U.S.) 
544. Limosa. lapponica, nove-zealandie, Gray.—L. uropygialis, BAIRD, Trans. Chicago 
Acad. i. 1869, 320, pl. 32. (Alaska.) 
546. Limosa egocephala (Linn.) Leach.—Cf. Renu. Ibis, 1861, 11. (Greenland. ) 
551. Rhyacophilus ochropus (Linn.) Ridgw.—Cf. BREWER, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii. 
Jan. 1878, 49. (Nova Scotia.) 
561. Numenius phwopus (Linn.) Lath.—Cf. RE1nu. Ibis, 1861, 10. (Greenland.) 
562. Numenius tahitiensis (Gmel.) Cass.—‘* Numenius femoralis, PEALE”, RipGw. Am. 
Nat. July, 1874, 435. (Kadiak, Alaska; F. Bischoff.) 
568. Parra gymnostoma, Wagl.—Cf. MERRILL, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i. Nov. 1876, 88 
(Ft. Brown, Texas); Rip@w. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. 1878, 167, pl. iii. 
(synonymy and descriptions). 
570. RALLUS OBSOLETUS, Ridgw.—l. elegans, var. obsoletus, R1ipGw. Am. Nat. viii. 
Feb. 1874, 111. (Coast California. ) 
571a. RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS SATURATUS, Hensh.—Cf. RipG@w. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 
July, 1880, 140. (Louisiana. ) 
573. Porzana maruetta (Leach) Bp.—‘‘ Ortygometra porzana (Linn.)”, REINH. Ibis, 
1861, 12. (Greenland.) 
576a. PORZANA JAMAICENSIS COTURNICULUS, Baird.—P. jamaicensis, var. coturniculus, 
S Barrp, Am. Nat. viii. Feb. 1874, 111. (Farallone Islands, California.) 
586. Olor cygnus (Linn.) Bp.—‘‘ Cygnus ferus, RAY”, REINH. Ibis, 1861, 13. (Green- 
land.) 
587. Olor minor (Pall.) Bp.—‘‘Cygnus bewickii”, Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. ii. 1831, 465. 
(‘‘Tgloolik [Arctic America], lat. 66°, June 19,1823.” Said to breed ‘‘on the 
sea-coast within the Arctie circle.” The description, from specimens killed 
at locality quoted above, is of the true O. minor, or Bewick’s Swan.) 
592. CHEN ROssII (Baird) Ridgw.—Anser rossii, ““‘BATRD, MSS.”, Cass. Proc. Philad. 
Acad. 1861, 73. (Arctic America. ) 
593. Anser albifrons (Gm. ) .—Cf. REINH. Ibis, 1861, 12. (Greenland.) 
603. ANAS FULVIGULA, Ridgw.—A. obscura, var. fulvigula, Am. Nat. viii. Feb. 1874, 
111. (Florida.) 
627a. SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA DRESSERI (Sharpe) Coues.—S. dresseri, SHARPE, Ann, 
Mag. N. H. July, 1871, 51, figs. 1, 2. 
This bird has been called by all American writers S. mollissima. The true Hider, how- 
ever, has only lately been detected in America, it being the form found by Mr. Kumlien 
breeding abundantly on the west side of Cumberland Gulf. 
631. Melanetta fusca (Linn.)—Cf. Rernuarpt, Vid. Medd. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn, 
1879, 1. (South Greenland. ) 
646a. Phalacrocorax violaceus resplendens (Aud.) Ridgw.—Graculus bairdii, “GRUBER, 
MSS.”, Cooprr, Proc. Philad. Acad. Jan. 1865, 5. (Farallone Islands.) 
