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RALLUS ELEGANS Aud. 
M. C. Z. No. 67829. Wilson’s account of the Clapper Rail, Rallus 
crepitans Gmel., relates to that species, but his figure, 7, 1813, pl. 62, 
fig. 2, is a King Rail, R. elegans Aud., as Audubon pointed out. There 
are two large Rails in the Boston Museum collection, both of them 
R. elegans, although one is labelled Rallus crepitans, a name probably 
copied from the original Peale Museum label. This is very probably 
the individual that served as a model for Wilson, although its attitude 
is vitalized in the drawing. 
STEGANOPUS TRICOLOR Vieill. 
M. C. Z. No. 67830. Wilson saw but one specimen of this Phala-— 
rope, in Trowbridge’s Museum, Albany, N. Y. He left after his 
death an imperfect sketch and description of this specimen which 
were published by Ord in the ninth volume of Wilson’s Ornithology, 
p. 72-74, pl. 73, fig. 3, 1814, as “ Phalaropus lobata.” In the second 
edition of the ninth volume, p. 234-235, 1825, Ord added a fuller de- 
scription of a new specimen in Peale’s Museum, shot by T. R. Peale 
near Philadelphia, May 7, 1818. In 1833 Bonaparte described the 
same specimen again and gave a coloured figure of it, in the fourth 
volume of his continuation of Wilson’s Ornithology, p. 66, pl. 24, fig. 1, 
under the name Phalaropus wilsoni Sabine. J am convinced that the 
specimen in the Boston Museum collection is the one described by Ord 
and Bonaparte. Its bill unluckily has been badly shattered. 
RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA Gmel. 
M. C. Z. Nos. 67831, 67832. Two specimens, probably collected 
by Wilson on their former breeding-ground in Cape May Co., N. J. 
(Amer. Ornithology, 7, 1813, p. 126). One of these (No. 67831) 
seems to be the specimen figured by Wilson, pl. 63, fig. 2. 
HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS (Miill.). 
Recurvirostra himantopus Wils., 7, 1813, p. 48, pl. 58, fig. 2. Nee Charadrius 
himantopus Linn. 
