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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 SET, 1884. 



650. Plegadis guarauna. 



651. Eudociraus albus. 



652. ruber. 



653. Ajaja rosea. 



648. Tantalops loculator. 



654. Mycteria americana. 



655. Ardea herodias. 



656. occideutalis. 

 000. wardi. 



657. cinerea. 



658. Herodias egretta. 



659. Garzetta candidissima. 



660. Hydranassa tricolor. 



661. Dichromanassa rufa. 



662. Florida ccerulea. 



663. Butorides rufescens. 



664. Nyctiardea grisea nsevia. 



665. Nycterodius violaceus. 



666. Botaurus mugitans. 



667. Ardetta exilis. 



667 to. .4rfrf; 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 remiges slaty plumbeous. Length 

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

 p. 262. 



beldingi. 

 Most like R. elegans, but darker 



209. 

 676 his. Add: Rallus beldingi. Belding's Rail. 

 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. Kallus virginianus. 212. Rallus virginianus. 



678. Porzana maruetta. 



679. Carolina. 



680. noveboracensis. 



681. jamaicensis. 



[213.] Porzana porzana. 



214. Carolina. 



215. noveboracensis. 



216. jamaicensis. 



