CATALOGUE OF BIRDS, 



449 



642. Phalaropus hyperboreus. (Linnaeus.) Oregon. 



643. Haematopus palliatus. Ternminek. Peru. 



644. Haematopus niger. Cuvier. Tierra del Fuego. 



645. Haematopus Bachmanii. Audubon. Oregon. 



V. Order NATATORES. 



646. Phoenicopterus ignipalliatus. Geoff, and D'Orb. Chill. 



647. Cygnus atratus. (Latham.) Australia. 



648. Anser albatus. Cassin. California. 



649. Anser Gambelii. Hartlaub. California. 



650. Bernicla antarctica. (Gmelin.) Tierra del Fuego, 



651. Bernicla magellanica. (Gmelin.) Tierra del Fuego. 



652. Bernicla melanoptera. (Eyton.) Chili. 



653. Bernicla inornata. (King.) Tierra del Fuego. 



654. Bernicla sandwichensis. (Vigors.) Sandwich Islands, 



Anser Hauaiensis. Peale.* 



655. Bernicla jubata. (Latham.) Australia. 



656. Nettapus albipennis. Gould. Australia. 



657. Anas boschas. Linnaeus. Oregon. 



658. Anas superciliosa. Gmelin. Australia. 



659. Dafila bahamensis. (Linnaeus.) (Locality unknown.) 



660. Mareca americana. (Gmelin.) Oregon. 



661. Querquedula ipecutri. (Vieillot.) Brazil. 



662. Querquedula carolinensis. (Gmelin.) Oregon. 



663. Querquedula creccoides. (King ) Tierra del Fuego. 



664. Querquedula chalcoptera. (Kittlitz.) Tierra del Fuego. 



665. Spatula rynchotis. (Latham.) Australia. 



666. Spatula clypeata. (Linnaeus.) Oregon. 



667. Dendrocygna arcuata. (Cuvier.) (Obtained at Malacca.) 



668. Dendrocygna viduata, (Linnaeus.) Brazil. 



669. Fuligula collaris. (Donovan.) Oregon. 



670. Oidemia perspicillata. (Linnaeus.) Oregon. 



671. Oidemia carbo. (Pallas ) Oregon. 



672. Casarka tadornoides. (Jard. and Selby.) Australia, 



• "The general aspect is somewhat that of the Chinese goose, but it is not more than half its size ; 

 and its long legs give it more the appearance of some of the 'Bustard' or upland geese of Cape Horn. 



"Bill small, black; throat, head, and back of the neck black; sides of the neck tawny; breast, belly, 

 and flanks pale brown ; the feathers being cinereous at the roots, and having a pale, shaded umber bar 

 near the tip; vent and under tail-coverts white ; back dark umber, the feathers edged with brown; 

 rump nearly black; upper tail-coverts white; tail black; legs dusky; toes long, semi-palrnate ; the 

 nails slender, the middle one sharp on the inner edge; irides brown. 



"Total length, twenty^two and a half inches; bill, one and six-tenths inches; along the commissure, 

 one and thirteen-twentieths inches; tarsi, two and eiglit-tentlis inches; midtlle toe, three and one-tenth 

 inches; nail, tliirteen-twentielUs of an inch; hind toe, niqe-tentlis of an inch." Peale, Zool. U. S. 

 Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 249. 



113 



