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Pi-ogr. Act. Chicago Acad. Sci., iv, 1933, 24 (Point Barrow, Alaska).— Du- 

 MoiNT, Wlls. Bull., xlv, 1933, 13, 14, 15 (meas. of specimens from Iowa and 

 Nebraska).— Petehs, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 151.— WnxETT, 

 Pacific Coast Avif. No. 21, 1933, 51 (sw. California; migrant; also occa- 

 sionally in winter).— Taveknee, Birds Canada, 1934, 170 in text (breeds In 

 Arctic south to Great Slave Lake ; migrates through the prairies and British 

 Columbia to Mexico).— Du Mont, Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist., xv, 1934, 60 

 (migrant Iowa ; 22 specimens ; status at present not certain) . — Sutton, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., xxiv, 1934, iS (seen in Oklahoma Panhandle, Sept. and Oct.) — 

 McCeeaby and Mickey, Wils. Bull., xlvii, 1935, 136 (se. Wyoming— Soder- 

 green Lake, Apr. 3; Glendo, Oct. 7). — Linsdale, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 23, 

 1936, 50 (Nevada; transient; specimen Ash Meadows, Mar. 10, 1891). — 

 Bakee, Auk, liv, 1937, 388 (bones from Jacob, Jackson County, 111.). 



G[rMS] c[anadensis'i canadensis Tavebnee and Sutton, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xxiil, 

 1934, 32 in text (nests from the Arctic Islands southward). 



Megalornis canadensis ca^iadensis Obebholser, Auk, xxxviii, Jan. 1921, 82. — 

 Habteet, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 1921, 1817. — Gbinnell, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., xxxii, 1928, 86 (distr. ; Lower California). 



Mlegalornis'i c[anadensis] canadensis Peoties, Auk, xlii, 1925, 122, in text. 



Megalornis canadensis McAtee, U. S. Dept. Agr. Misc. Circ. 13, 1923, 39 (local 

 names; range). — Peebu:, North Amer. Fauna No. 46, 1923, 62 (St. Paul 

 Island, Pribilof group, early summer visitant). — Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 135, 1927, 231 (life hist.; monogr.) 



? Orus (—Megalornis) canadensis Plbske, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat Hist., vi, 1928, 

 286 (probable records— Koljuchin Bay, Cape Bolschoi Baronowski, Balagan, 

 and Sebddij Strait, eastern Siberia). 



Glrus'i poliophaea Wagleb, Syst. Av., 1827, Orus, sp. 7 (based on Grus fusca 

 canadensis Edwards, Nat. Hist., 1750, pi. 133) . 



Orus fusca ViEiiiOT, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1817, 258, part (based chiefly on 

 Ardea canadensis Linnaeus). 



( ?) Orus cinerea lovgirostris Tbmminok and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, iii, 1850, 

 117, pi. 72 (Japan; type in Leyden Mus.; see Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, iii, 

 1921, 1818; Peters, Auk, xiii, 1925, 120) .— Shabpe, BuU. Brit. Orn. Club, i, 

 1893, p. xliii, in text (crit. ; refers type to "Orus mexicana"^M. canadensis 

 tahidal). 



( ?) Or[us'i longirostris Bonapaete, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857 [1854], 98. 



Orus frateroulus Cassin, in Balrd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 656 (Albu- 

 querque, N. Mex., Oct. 1853 ; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; = young) ; ed. 1860 (Birds 

 North Amer.), 656, pi. 37.— Baikd, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 480. — 

 Kbnneely, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. 3, 1859, 33, pi. 37 (Albuquerque).— 

 Sca:.ATEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, 418 (Fort Churchill, Keewatin).— 

 Dbesseb, Ibis, 1866, 30 (San Antonio, Tex.). — Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. ZooL 

 France, i, 1876, 246 (Cape Tschukoso, e. Siberia).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, 1880, 123 (Rio Verde, N. Mex.; crit.). — Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, 1880, 187, 188 (crit. ; synonymy) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 

 202 (Cat. North Amer. Birds, No. 584) ; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 1881, 

 No. 584.— McLenbgan, Cruise of Gorwin in 1884 (1889), 121 (Kowak River, 

 nw. Alaska; habits) ; Cruise of Corwin in 1885 (1887), 79 (Noatak River, 

 Alaska). 



[Orus'\ fraterculus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 24, No. 10084. 

 Orus mexicana (not Ardea mexicana Miiller) Beyant, Proc. California Acad. 

 Sei., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 270 (Tia Juana Valley, Lower California).— Wayne, Auk, 

 viii, 1891, 308 (Mount Pleasant, S. C, Oct. 21, 1890).— Preble, North Amer. 

 Fauna, No. 27, 1908, 313 (Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie, May 15). 



