368 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The following is a list of species which have from time to 
time been recorded as occurring in North America, but which 
records are now considered erroneous :— 
Alauda calandra (Linn.), Swainsen and Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am. 
(Birds), p. 244. A specimen was stated to be in the British Museum from 
Hudson's Bay (!), but my friend Mr. Sharpe tells me that he knows nothing 
of it. It has been reported by Wilson as American on the faith of a dealer. 
Strix aluco (Linn.), Nuttall, Manual, i. p. 185. Newfoundland and 
Hudson’s Bay. 
Striv passerina (Linn.), Audubon, Birds of Am., i. p. 116. Picton, 
Nova Scotia. 
Tringa platyrhyncha (Temm.), Nuttall, Manual, ii. p.114. Aretic 
America, fide Temminck and Bonaparte. 
Tringa minuta (Linn.), Swainson and Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am., ii. 
p- 385. Abundant on flats at the mouth of Nelson and Hayes river. 
Specimen from Hudson's Bay in the British Museum. 
Tringa temmincki (Leisl.), Nuttall, Manual, ii. p. 119. Arctic America. 
Totanus calidris (Linn.), Swainson and Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am. 
Hudson's Bay. 
Anser segetum (Gmel.), Nuttall, Manual, ii. p. 348. Canada and 
Hudson's Bay. 
CEdemia nigra (Linn.), Nuttall, /.c. p. 423. Coast of the United States. 
Mergus albellus (Linn.), Wilson, Am. Orn., iii. pl. lxxi. fig. 4. New 
England and New York. Nuttall, Manual, ii. p. 467. Audubon, Orn. 
Biog., iv. p.350; Birds of Am., vi., 1843, p. 408, pl.114. Lake Barataria, 
near New Orleans. 
Phalacrocorax graculus (Linn.), Nuttall, Manual, ii. p. 484. South 
Greenland; United States in winter. 
Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (Pall.), Nuttall, l.c., p. 487. Northern North 
America, fide Bonaparte. 
Phalacrocorax africanus (Gmel.), Nuttall, /.c,, p. 488. United States, 
Jide Audubon. 
Larus fuscus (Linn.), Nuttall, /.¢., p. 302. Greenland, Newfoundland, 
and Hudson's Bay. 
Larus marinus (Pall.), Swainson and Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am., ii. 
p. 426. A specimen taken in Sir J. Franklin’s first Expedition. Nuttall, 
Manual, ii. p. 289. Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Birds of N. Am., p. 853, 
where it is given with a query. Baird, Cat. 1859, No. 671. 
Diomedea exulans (Linn.), Nuttall, Manual, ii. p. 340. Coast of United 
States. Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Birds of N. Am., p. 821. 
Podiceps cristatus (Linn.), Swainson and Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am., 
ii., 1831, p. 410, where a description is given of a specimen killed on the 
