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head Museum. ‘The species just mentioned will be 
seen in the collection, as well as the yellow-billed 
Albatross, and the largest species of all, D. exudans. 
The fourteenth order, PYGOPODIFORMES, con- 
tains the Grebes and Auks, in all perhaps seventy-five 
species. In the first family our well-known Great 
Northern and Black-throated MDzivers are placed ; 
in the second (Podicifes) are the Grebes proper, of 
these our Great Crested Grebe may be taken as the 
type; there are thirty-one species, several of which will 
be noticed from different parts of the world; FP. 
gularis, a Black-throated Grebe from Moreton Bay ; 
and P. carolinensis from N. America, are from two 
widely-separated localities. Then follow the Atcipa, 
the Great Auk being the type; /vatercula, represen- 
ted by the Puffins; Uvza, the Guillemots, of which a 
specimen of the Black Guillemot, an inhabitant of 
the seas of the northern division of this kingdom will 
be seen; and acrested species, U. umizusume, from 
Japan. The last genus, <4AZ/e, is restricted to the 
Little Auk, a winter visitor to our shores, and will 
be found in the British collection. 
Case XX. 
begins the LAMELLIROSTRES, order fifteen, con- 
sisting of the Flamingoes, Geese, Swans, Ducks, etc. 
The first is the Flamingo, of whict: we possess 
but one species, /anicopterus antiquorum, found 
abundantly in Spain, nesting in large communities 
in the low-lying districts known as the “ Marismas,” 
between the river Guadalquivir and the sea. Of the 
true Geese there are some beautiful exampies ; Sar&z- 
diornis melanonotus, 1s a singular species, the male 
being ornamented with a large rounded compressed 
caruncle along the upper mandible; these birds are 
