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published in 1630, described and figured a “Tropical Bird” 
which was obtained in England more than 250 years ago, and 
was in all probability of this species; and Naumann (‘ Rhea,’ 
i. p. 25) recorded the occurrence of a bird of the genus at 
Heligoland in or before 1846. 
Cygnus bewicki is given by Swainson and Richardson (Faun. 
Bor. Am., part ii., 1831, p. 465) as breeding in North America 
upon the sea coast within the Arctic circle, and wintering— 
according to Lewis and Clarke—near the mouth of the Columbia 
river. The birds referred to were probably only small specimens 
of what is now known as C. americanus, which was only recognised 
as a species (Sharpless-Doughty’s Cat. N. H., 1830) the year 
before the date of the ‘Fauna Boreali Americana.’ Mr. Ridgway, 
however, considers the evidence sufficient to warrant him in 
retaining C. bewicki on the American list (Bull. U.S. Nat. Museum, 
1881, No. 587). 
In this paper will be found several species which have only 
occurred in North America on the Pacific coast, and which could 
by no possibility be supposed to have crossed over from Europe, 
but have probably come from the eastern side of the Palearctic 
region, except the last two in the following list, which are birds of 
the ocean. ‘They are— 
1. Charadrius fulvus 6. Avgialitis curonicus 
2. Parus cinctus 7. Cyanecula suecica 
3. Phylloscopus borealis 8. Larus cachinnans 
4. Syrnium lapponicum 9. Daption capensis 
5. Surnia ulula. 10. Diomedea chlororhyncha. 
As, however, these ten species belong to the European list, 
I have retained them here. 
Daption capensis I have included on the strength of Degland 
and Gerbe’s record that a bird of this species was shot near 
Hyéres, on the Mediterranean coast of France, in October, 1844. 
M. de Draguignan, who was its first possessor, gave it to the 
Natural History collection of Marseilles, where it is stated to be 
still preserved. They also mention the capture of two other 
specimens about 1825 (c.f. M.J. Verreaux) on the Seine near 
Bercy (‘ Ornithologie Européenne,’ vol. ii. p. 373). 
The same authors, in treating of Diomedea chlororhyncha, state 
that, according to a note of M. E. Esmark in the ‘ Nyt. Magazin 
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