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HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS Linn. 
M. C. Z. No. 67841. There is scant room for doubt that this is the ~ 
individual figured by Wilson, 8, 1814, pl. 64, fig. 2, whatever the 
original of his;description may have been. It is a European Oyster- 
Catcher, not palliatus. There is also a specimen of H. pallzatus in the 
collection. In C. W. Peale’s MS. “A Walk through the Philadelphia 
Museum,” page 113, a pair of Oyster-Catchers in the Museum are 
referred to:— “the darkest of this pair is from England, and the other 
from Cape May.”’ 
MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO SILVESTRIS (Vieill.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67842. This is without much doubt the original of 
T. R. Peale’s beautiful figure of the Wild Turkey Cock in Bonaparte’s 
“‘ American Ornithology,” 1, 1825, pl. 9. 
EcroPIsTES MIGRATORIUS (Linn.). 
M. C. Z. No. 67843. <A fine specimen of this extinct species con- 
forms so well to Wilson’s figure, 5, 1812, pl. 44, fig. 1, that I incline 
to think it is the subject he drew. 
CATHARISTA URUBU (Vieill.). 
Vultur atratus Ord, Wils. Amer. Orn., 9, 1814, p. 104, pl. 75, fig. 2. 
M. C. Z., No. 67844. Wilson’s figure was very likely drawn from 
this specimen, with some adaptation to the life attitude of feeding 
on the carcass of a sheep. = 
BUTEO LINEATUS LINEATUS (Gmel.). . 
M. C. Z. No. 67845. Probably the model for Wilson’s figure, 9, 
1812, pl. 53, fig. 3. 
HALIAEETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS (Linn.). 
M. C. Z. Nos. 67846, 67847. One of these birds, a fine adult in full 
plumage, is the one shown on Wilson’s plate 36 (6, 1812). Its att 
