128 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
NOTES ON SOME OF THE NorTH AMERICAN Birps IN THE Boston 
MusrEuM CoLuLECTION, NOW IN THE MUSEUM OF 
COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
ALLE ALLE (Linn.). 
In a foot-note on page 94 of the ninth volume of Wilson’s “ American 
Ornithology,” Philadelphia, 1814, Ord refers to one specimen of Alea 
alle in the Peale Museum that differs from the rest in having a white 
spot below as well as above each eye. One of the three specimens in 
the Boston Museum collection (M. C. Z., No. 67811) has this spot and 
is very likely the specimen Ord alluded to. Wilson’s figure (pl. 74, fig. 
5) shows a white mark both above and below the eye and may have 
_ been drawn and coloured from the same specimen. 
GELOCHELIDON NILOTICA (Linn.). 
Sterna aranea Wils., 8, 14, p. 159. 
According to Ord (2d. ed. of Wilson, 8, 1824, p. 159), Wilson’s type : 
of Sterna aranea in the Peale Museum was lost. ‘Titian R. Peale sue- 
ceeded in procuring another specimen which became the subject | 
of Bonaparte’s remarks on this species in his “Observations on the 
Nomenclature of Wilson’s Ornithology,” Philadelphia, 1826. The 
single specimen in the Boston Museum collection (M. C. Z. No. 67812) 
is very probably the bird examined by Bonaparte. - 
RHYNCHOPS NIGRA Linn. 
M. C. Z. No. 67813. One specimen, which I think is without doubt 
the original of Wilson’s figure, 7, 1813, pl. 60, fig. 4. 
OcEANODROMA LEUCORRHOA (Vieill.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67814. Probably the specimen drawn by Titian R. 
Peale to illustrate Procellaria leachii Temm. for Bonaparte’s paper | 
“An Account of four Species of Stormy Petrels,”’ Journ. Acad. Nat. — 
Sci. Phila., 3, 1824, p. 229, pl. 9. | | 
