AVES ANATID/E. 407 



Dr. Cunningham obtained three specimens. He says: " Apparently they 

 are but rare in the neighborhood of the Strait, for this was the only 

 occasion on which we observed specimens." These were young or im- 

 mature birds and "the plumage was chiefly composed of somber grey 

 and brown tints, but on the inside of the wings there was a lovely pale 

 rosy hue, recalling a dying sunset flush." 



Order ANSERIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Classif. Bds. p. 76 (1891); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 207 

 (1899). 



Family ANATID>E. 



Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit Mus. XXVII. p. 23 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. I. p. 207 (1899). 



Subfamily CYGNIN^E. 



Salvadori, Cat Bds. Brit Mus. XXVII. p. 24 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. I. p. 207 (1899). 



Genus CYGNUS Bechstein. 



Type. 

 Cygnus, Bechst Orn. Taschenb. II. p. 404 (note) 



(1803); Salvad. Cat Bds. Brit Mus. XXVII. 



(1898); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 207 



(1899) C. olor. 



O/or, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1234. . . . C. ( Cygnus) ntusicus. 

 Cycnus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. IV. p. 526 



(1840). 

 Sthenelus, Stejneg. Pro. U. S. Nat Mus. V. p. 185 



(1882) C. melanocoryphus. 



Sthenetides, Stejneg. Kingsl. Stand. Nat. Hist IV. 



p. 143 (1885) (= Stkenelus). 



Geographical Range. The Northern Hemisphere and the Neotropi- 

 cal Region. 



