CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



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578. Ptilinopus coi'alen.sis. Peale. Paumotu Islands. 



574. Ptilinopus purpuratus, (Gmelin.) Society Islands. 



Ptilinopus furcatus. Peale. 

 Columba taitensis. Lesson. 



575. Pleiodus strigirostris. (Jardine.) Samoan Islands. 



Didunculus strigirostris. Peale.* 



IV. Order GRALLATORES. 



576. Grrus canadensis. (Linnaeus.) Oregon. 



577. Grus australasianus. Gould. Australia. 



578. Ardea Herodias. Linnaeus. Oregon. 



579. Ardea novae-hollandiae. Latham. Australia. 



580. Ardea jugularis. Forster. Society and Friendly Islands, 

 58 L Ardea Greyi. Gould. Society and Friendly Islands. 



582. Ardetta stagnalis. (Gould.) Society Islands. 



Ardea patruelis. Peale. 



583. Ardetta sinensis. (Gnielin.) (Obtained at Malacca.) 



584. x\rdetta macrorhyncha. Gould. Australia. 



585. Egretta thula. (Molina.) Peru. 



586. Egretta immaculata. (Gould.) Australia. 



587. Nycticorax cyanocephalus. (Molina.) Chili. 



588. Nycticorax caledonicus. (Guielin.) Australia. 



589. Mycteria americana. Linnaeus. Brazil. 



590. Platalea flaviceps. Gould. Australia. 



591. Platalea regia. Gould. Australia. 



592. Ibis Ordii. Bonaparte. Oregon. 

 59-3. Ibis guarauna. (Linnaeus.) Chili. 



Ibis brevirostris. Peale. 



594. Geronticus spinicollis. (Jameson.) Australia. 



595. Threskiornis strictipennis. (Gould.) Australia. 



596. Rallus philippensis. Linnaeus. (Obtained at Malacca.) 



597. Rallus pectoralis. Cuvier. Australia. 



598. Rallus sanguinolentus. Swainson. Tierra del Fuego. 



Rallus luridus. Peale. 



599. Corethrura fusca. (Linnaeus.) (Obtained at Malacca.) 



600. Corethrura fasoiata. (Raffles.) (Obtained at Malacca.) 



* Genus Didunculus. Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 208 (1st edition, 1848). 



"Bill large, compressed, liooUed, the culmen forming a segment of about one-third part of a circle; 

 margins of the upper mandible waved, contracted in the middle, and very sharp; lower mandible 

 large, closing outside of the upper, double notched, truncated at the extremity, the margins sharp ; 

 gonys prominent and rounded ; nares lateral, oval, opening downwards, and surrounded by a naked 

 cere; tongue fleshy, and liaving a rounded, corneous point; wings short, rounded; spurious wings 

 large; tail short, nearly square; legs large, muscular, covered with a soft skin; toes protected by 

 scales; nails strong, curved, the middle ones expanded to a sharp cutting edge inside." Peale, as 

 above. 



