APPENDIX. 



UNION LIST, 1886. 



187. Plegadis guarauna. 

 184. Guara alba. 



[185.] rubra. 



183. Ajaja ajaja. 



188. Tantalus loculator. 

 [189.] Mycteria americana. 



194. Ardea herodias. 



COUES KEY, 1884. 



650. Plegadis guarauna. 

 051. Eudociinus albus. 



652. ruber. 



653. Ajaja rosea. 



648. Tautalops loculator. 



654. Mycteria americana. 



655. Ardea herodias. 



656. occidentalis. 

 000. wardi. 



657. cinerea. 



658. Herodias egretta. 



659. Garzetta candidissima. 



660. Hydranassa tricolor. 



661. Dichromanassa rufa. 



662. Florida ccerulea. 



663. Butorides rufesoens. 



664. Nyotiardea grisea nfevia. 



665. Nycterodius violaceus. 



666. Botaurus mugitans. 



667. Ardetta exilis. 



667 Jis. j4rft/; Ardetta neoxena. Florida Dwarf Bittern. Crown, back and tail 

 black, glossed with green. Sides of head and throat chestnut, the feathers on the back of 

 the neck tipped with greenish-black. Breast and under parts rufous chestnut, nearly uni- 

 form, shading into blackish on the sides ; under tail-coverts dull black ; upper wing-coverts 

 rufous chestnut, the under ones paler chestnut; all the reiniges slaty plumbeous. Length 

 10.80; wing 4.30; tarsus 1.40; bill 1.80. Southwestern Florida. The Auk, April, 1886, 

 p. 262. 



668. Grus americana. 



669. canadensis. 



670. pratensis. 



671. Aramus pictus. 



672. Parra gymnostoma. 



673. Rallus longirostris crepitans. 



674. longirostris obsoletus. 



675. longirostris saturatus. 



676. elegans. 



204. 

 205. 

 206. 

 207. 



Grus americana. 



canadensis. 



mexicana. 

 Aramus giganteus. 



[288.] Jacana gymnostoma. 

 211. Rallus longirostris crepitans. i 



210. obsoletus. 



211a. longirostris saturatus. 



208. elegans. 



209. beldingi. 



676 bis. Add: Rallus beldingi. Belding's Rail. Most like /?. elegans, but darker 

 and richer colored throughout, the white bars of the flanks much narrower, the blackish bars 

 very distinct. Wing 5.70; tail 2.50; bill 2.15; tarsus 1.90. A species which takes its 

 place in the Key under our ruling to admit the islands pertaining to Lower California. 

 Espiritu Santo Island, Gulf of California. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 1882, p. 345. 



677. Rallus virginianus. 



678. Porzana maruetta. 



679. Carolina. 



680. noveboracensis. 



681. jamaicensis. 



212. Rallus virginianus. 

 [213.] Porzana porzana. 



214. Carolina. 



215. noveboracensis. 



216. jamaicensis. 



