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OcEANITES OCEANICUS (Kuhl). 
Procellaria pelagica Wils., 7, 1813, p. 90, pl. 60, fig. 6. Nec Linn. 
Procellaria wilsonii Bonap., Journ. Acad. Nat: Sci. Phila., 3, 1824, p. 231, pl. 9. 
_M. C. Z. No. 67815. A specimen of Wilson’s Petrel agrees so well 
with the figure drawn by T. R. Peale for Bonaparte that I have no 
doubt of its being the figured type of Procellaria wilsonw Bonap. 
\a ANHINGA ANHINGA (Linn). 
Plotus melanogaster Ord, Wils. Amer. Orn., 9, 1814, p. 82, pl. 74, fig. 2. Nec 
Gmel. 
M. C. Z. Nos. 67816, 67817. A pair, the female (No. 67817) with- 
' out doubt the one figured by Wilson (pl. 74, fig. 2). In a MS. in the 
: possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society entitled “A Walk 
through the Philadelphia Museum, by C. W. Peale,” a pair of An- 
hingas are referred to on page 94,— one as collected at Elk Ridge, 
on the Pelapsewa River, the other in Georgia. Mr. J. D. Sornborger 
| made extracts from this manuscript when he was in Philadelphia a 
few years ago. 
‘MERGELLUS ALBELLUS (Linn.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67818. One specimen, without question the original 
of Wilson’s figure of Mergus albellus, 8, 1814, pl. 71, fig. 4. Audubon 
_ was convinced that Wilson copied this bird from a European specimen 
_in Peale’s Museum (Ornithological Biography, 4, 1838, p. 350, Birds 
of America, 6, 1843, p. 408). 
AIx sponsa (Linn.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67819. Probably the original of Wilson’s figure of 
Anas sponsa, 8, 1814, pl. 70, fig. 3. 
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Anas mollissima Wils., 8, 1814, p. 122, pl. 71, fig. 2. Nec Linn. 
| M.C. Z. No. 67820. Perhaps the original of Wilson’s figure. 
