iSSsO Stejneger, Analecta Ornithologica. 337 



on the iSth of April, 1885. This I examined in the flesh. It is 

 the only one ever taken in this locality. 



Bufflehead Duck. Bucephala albeola. — An albino of 

 this species was killed about thirty miles east of here, and is now 

 to be seen in the possession of Mr. Jos. Taylor of Toronto. 



Harlequin Duck. Histrionicus torquatus. — A female of 

 this species is now in the rooms of the Toronto Gun Club. It 

 was killed here in the fall of 1881, by Mr. Wm. Loane, who 

 claims also to have taken a pair in the spring of 1S61. 



Glaucus Guel. Larus glaucus. — A fine specimen of this 

 Gull was killed in Toronto Bay in the spring of 1884, by Mr. 

 George Guest of this city. 



ANALECTA ORNITHOLOGICA. 



Sixth Series. 



BY LEONHARD STEJNEGER. 



XXIX. Jacana contra Parr a. 



Linnaeus, basing his diagnosis upon Edward's pi. 48, in the 

 10th edition (1758), p. 152, described a Fulica spinosa as " F. 

 fronte carunculata, corpore variegato, humeris spinosis, digitis 

 simplicibus, ungue postico longissimo. Habitat in America 

 australi." Description and plate apply with equal pertinency to 

 the young Brazilian Jacana, commonly called Parra jacana 

 Linn. The latter name, as we shall see presently, dates from 1766, 

 and spinosa will, therefore, have to stand, as already indicated 

 by Ridgway (Water Birds, I, p. 1 75 ) . 



As will be remarked, Linnaeus included the Jacana in 1758 in 

 the genus Fulica. Brisson, with his usual excellent judgment of 

 generic distinctions, made in 1760 a separate genus for this bird, 

 describing the different plumages as different species, however. 

 This genus, which he called Jacana, he characterized by the 

 extremely lengthened claws, thereby excluding all the Chara- 

 driidae with frontal lobes and wing-spurs, referring them to his 



