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nianus, and from the Lower Columbia River. The Condor is doubtless 

 confined to South America, though quite able to visit our latitude. 



49. Melopelia leucoptera {Linn.). This species, common in Ari- 

 zona, has not been collected in California, but in 1853 I saw white-winged 

 wild Pigeons, which I then had no doubt were this species, in the San 

 Francisco market. As they are often caged in Mexico, these may have 

 come from there, but it is also very probable that they may wander so far, 

 like the little Ground Dove, which has been shot at San Francisco. 



50. Ortyx fasciatus, Natterer MSiS. "California," Gould, 1843, but 

 it is not now known north of Colima, Mex., and not at all likely to be found 

 north of that point. 



51. Lophortyx elegans (Lesson), 1831. " Upper California," Nuttall, 

 1840, who, however, did not see it. Found at Mazatlan, but not much to 

 the northward. L. douglassi, Vig., is probably young of L. californicus. 



52. Eupsychortyx cristatus (Linn.)= 0. neoxeniis, Vig., 1830, And., 

 1839 - 42, Nutt., 1840. " Northwest coast of America," Beechey ; " Califor- 

 nia," Audubon. This species is not given in any recent lists of birds of 

 western tropical America. Beechey's specimen may have been a cage- 

 bird, or obtained in Costa Rica. 



53. Gambetta flavipes (Gmel). " Oregon," Townsend, 1839 ; " Cali- 

 fornia," Woodhouse, 1853, Newberry, 1857. Although some undoubtedly 

 occur for a considerable distance west of the Rocky Mountains and in 

 Alaska, it is a curious fact that no specimen seems to have been collected 

 in California, Nevada, or Arizona, nor have I seen it, while the larger 

 species is alamdant. 



54. Haematopus ater, VieilL, = H. toumsemU, And., 1839. " Oregon," 

 And., not Townsend, Doubtless collected in South America, but, like 

 other shore birds, may be also more or less comuxoA to the coast of North 

 America. 



55. Numenius rufiventris, Vig., 1828. " Pacific coast of North 

 America." The name would apply well to a common variety of N. lon- 

 girostris ; but it is not yet quoted as a synonym of that species, though 

 there seems to be no other species on the coast to which it is referable.* 



56. Grus americana, Forst. " Oregon and California," Townsend and 

 Audubon, 1839. The error arose from confounding G. canadensis with 

 this, which is not now known to go west of long. 100°. 



57. Audubonia occidentalis (Aud.). " California," Gambel, 1847, 

 " to Columbia River " ; Newberry, 1857. No specimens were obtained, and 

 they no doubt mistook the large var. " californica " of Ardea egretta for it. 



58. Platalea ajaj a, Zi inn. ==" P. 7Jiexicfma,"? Willoughby. "California 

 to San Francisco," Gambel, 1847. Not seen since then north of the Gulf of 



* Adodromus "boiuqxtrtei," Cassin, 1858, not of Schlegel, was coiifouiuleJ by 

 him with A. bairdi, Coues, 1861, and is still doubtful as a West-coast bird, as 

 is the more northern and Alaskan Adltunis barti-amiiis (Wils.). 



