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Page xxiv: III. 366,[TN: was "II."]

Page xxiv: III. 363,[TN: was "II."]

Page xxiv: III. 368,[TN: was "II."]

Page xxv: leucurus[TN: was "reucurus"] (summer),

Page xxvi: III. 398,[TN: was "II."]

Page xxvi: megarhyncha,[TN: was "megarrhyncha"]

Footnotes[TN: heading added by transcriber]

Footnote 8: names used in these pages are essentially the same as those there employed.[TN: Footnote label missing in scan]

Footnote 10: Vols.[TN: was a comma] IV and V, Dec., 1872, and Jan., 1873.

Footnote 14: larger feet, see p.[TN: page number missing in source]

Footnote 57: Tr. Orn. II, 131, 1800. Falco hæmorrhoidalis,[TN: was "hœmorrhoidalis"]

Footnote 63: Measurements.—♂. Wing, 6.90–7.10; tail, 4.80–5.10; culmen, .50; tarsus, 1.45–1.48[TN: added decimal point]

Footnote 65: Bryant Collection[TN: omitted extraneous closing parenthesis] from Porto Rico, and No. 36,554

Footnote 84: tarsus, 2.55–2.78; middle toe, 1.60–1.65.[TN: added decimal point]

Footnote 96: Sarcorhamphus, DUMÉRIL[TN: was "Dumèril"], 1806. (Type, Vultur gryphus, LINN.)

Footnote 114: the Spanish Main, where it was kept by the Christian colonists.”[TN: added closing quote]

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