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permitting a doubt of their identity. But having an opportunity 
of inspecting the very individual from which Wilson took his fig- 
ure, and drew up his description, I was undeceived, by proving the 
unity of my specimens with that of Wilson, and the discrepancy 
of these with that of Temminck. The latter had certainly never 
seen an individual from America, otherwise the difference between 
the two species would not have eluded the accurate eye of this na- 
turalist. I propose for this species the name of Wihonii, as a small 
testimony of respect to the memory of the author of the American 
Ornithology, whose loss science and America will long deplore. 
The yellow spot upon the membrane of the feet distinguishes this 
species, at first sight, from the others ; and this character remains 
permanent in the dried specimens.’’ 
These birds are sometimes driven by violent storms to a con- 
siderable distance inland. One was shot some years ago on the 
river Schuylkill, near Philadelphia ; and I once found a leg of one 
of this species, in a forest, at least twenty miles from the coast of 
New Jersey, the owner of it, probably, having been carried thither 
by a Hawk, or some other bird of prey. 
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