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Page 351: Vultur aura (not of Linn.[TN: added period]!), DAUD. Tr. Orn. II, 19 (quotes Pl. Enl. 187, 1800).

Page 359: .68; tarsus, .97; middle toe, 1.13; outer, .89; inner, .78[TN: added decimal point].

Page 366: [TN: added opening parenthesis](Cordova, 1856, 309); Honduras (TAYLOR, Ibis, II, 226;

Page 382: expedient to merge Zenaida and Zenaidura into one, since, if yucatanensis[TN: was "yucatensis"]

Page 414: lower throat very spinous.[TN: added period]

Page 416: Canace canadensis, REICH. Av. Syst. Nat. 1851, p. xxix. [TN: omitted extraneous parenthesis]Type, BONAP. Comptes

Page 429: Game Birds, Nat. Lib. IV, 140, pl. xvii.—ELLIOT, P. A. N. S, 1864.[TN: omitted comma]—IB.

Page 441: =17044= ♂[TN: possible typo for ♀] ⅓ ⅓

Page 502: nicely woven together, and lined with a few feathers and exceedingly fine grass.”[TN: added closing quotation mark]

Page 513: Length, 5.00; extent, 7.10; wing, 2.10; tail, 2.00; culmen, .42; tarsus, .68.[TN: added decimal point]

Page 525: 63. Abdomen (includes 64, 65).[TN: added period]

Page 531: In the Trogons, however, the inner toe is reversed[TN: was "revered"].

Page 538: including nape and scruff. (48.)[TN: was "(48)."]

Page 551: both ends. The transverse[TN: was "tranverse"]

Page iv: Maryland Yellow-throat,[TN: was a period] I. 297.

Page v: mexicanus, III.[TN: was a comma] 231.

Page vi: Bæolophus[TN: was "Bœolophus"], I. 86, 87.

Page x: cinnamominus[TN: was "cinnamoninus"], III. 168.

Page x: hæmorrhoidalis[TN: was "hœmorrhoidalis"], III. 130.

Page xii: pinus, I.[TN: was a comma] 191, 195.

Page xii: grœnlandicus[TN: was "grœlandicus"], III. 111.

Page xiii: carolinensis, I.[TN: was a comma] 418.

Page xiv: pertinax,[TN: was a period] II. 337.

Page xix: varius, II.[TN: was "III"] 537, 539; III. 521.[TN: was "523"]

Page xix: nacuruta[TN: was "nacurutu"], III. 61.

Page xxi: arctica, II.[TN: was "I"] 530.

Page xxiii: hæmorrhous,[TN: was "hœmorrhous"]

Page xxiv: III. 360,[TN: was "II."]

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