APPENDIX. 



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' This bird, long a puzzle to omithologistB, has proved to be the Buteo soUtariMS of Peale. It is not a North 

 American species, but was originally described from the Sandwich. Islands, and afterward described and figured 

 by Oassia as Pandion solitariue. See Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, p. 36. 



" The A. 0. IT. Committee has reversed the proper names of the wild turkey8,^evertlng to an old error long 

 since exposed. See Key, p. B76. 



