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Passing to the second group, or Order Longipennes, we find 

 upon comparison that in 1886 it contained 44 species and 4 sub- 

 species, while in 1895 it is seen to contain 46 species and 4 sub- 

 species. The additions here are the two new species Larus bar- 

 rovianus and Larus minutus (a straggler). Another change in 

 this group is the calling Pallas's Gull (Larv* cachinnans, No. 

 52) the Vega Gull (Larus vegse [1895]). 



In the third group, or the Order Tubinakes, were included, 

 in 1886, 31 species and 3 subspecies, to which list was added a 

 new species in 1895 (Oceanodroma macrodactyla), making 89 

 species and 3 subspecies for that year. Peale's Petrel (^Estrelata 

 gularis) (No. [99]), was likewise changed to the Scaled Petrel 

 {JE. scalaris) in this group. 



In 1886, the fourth group, or the Order Steganopodes, was 

 made to contain 17 species and 5 subspecies, and, in 1895, 19 

 species and 5 subspecies, the increase being due to the addition 

 of the two new species of Gannets, Sula gossi and S. brewsteri. 



Coming to the fifth group, or the Order Anseres, there 

 were contained in it in the 1886 List, SI species and 6 subspe- 

 cies, and, in the 1895 List, 51 species and 8 subspecies, the change 

 being effected as follows : Anas fulvigula maculosa, the Mottled 

 Duck, was added as a new subspecies, and Somateria mollisslma 

 was made the subspecies S. m. borealis; finally, Chen cxrules- 

 cens w T as included in the list. Camptolaimus labradorius now 

 being " extinct," it has no place in the List and ought not to 

 appear there. 



Group six, the Order Odontogloss^e, remains the same, each 

 List having the 1 species of Flamingo (P. ruber). 



In the seventh group, or the Order Heeodiones, there were 

 to be found 19 species and 2 subspecies, to which were added in 

 the 1895 List a new species and a new subspecies (Ardetta 

 neoxena and Ardea virescens jrazari). Botaurus exilis becomes in 

 the new List Ardetta exilis, and Ardea tufa becomes A.rufescens, 

 while the "subgenus" Nyctherodius is changed to Nyctanasm. 



The Order Paludicol^e (eighth group) in the 1886 List, 

 contained 17 species and 3 subspecies, to be changed in the 1895 

 List to 21 species with only 1 subspecies. This was effected by 

 considering the subspecies Rallus longirostris crepitans (1886) to 

 be the species Rallus crepitans, and adding also to the 1896 



