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4. Tringa hypoleuca L. 



Triiiga hiipoleunos Linnaeus, Si/sl. Nut. ed. x. 1. p. 1411 (1758 — "Europa." Restricted typical 

 locality ; Sweden !). 



2 t?c? ad. Manus, 11., 14.x. 1913 (Nos. (1239, 6258). 



The collectors of the Cludlenger had alreadj' obtained specimens. 



5. Erolia acuminata (Horsf.). 



Totanus acuminatus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lund. xiii. p. 192 (1821— Java, winter visitor). 



[In view of the somewhat important differences of the bill, size, and shape of 

 tail, it will be necessar}' to treat " Erolia maculata" or more correctly E. pectoralis* 

 as species, and not as subspecies. — E. H.] 



4 " ? " ad. Manus, 9.i.K. 1913 (Nos. GOOO, 60Ul, 6002, 60U3). 



7 c?? jnv. Manns, 10-14. x. 1913 (Nos. 6230, 6237, 6240, 6241, 6245, 

 6256, 6259). 



6. Erolia minuta ruficollis (Pall.). 



Tri/iiffa rnfienUis Pallas, Rcise Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 700 (177G — Siberia). 



7 cJ ? jnv., most already changing into the winter-plumage, Manns, 14. x. 1913. 

 (Nos. 6251—6257). 



7. Gallinago megala Swinh. 



GalUnago megala Swinhoe, Ihia, 1861, p. 343., (On the road to Peking). 

 " ? " Manus, 10. x. 1913 (No. 6235). 



8. Porphyrio ellioti Salvad. 



Porph/riii Miiili Salvadori, .llli R. Arcad. Tnriiin xiv. p. 11G8 (1870— Admiralty Islaiuis). 



4 (?cT, 3 ? ?, Manus, 7-16. ix. 1913 (Nos. 599(1, 5991, 5999, 6(J28, 604(1, 6041, 

 6073). 



" Iris brownish red, dark red ; bill red ; feet pink with dull black joints." 



Wings : males 216-230, females 210-211 mm. 



This fine series is quite constant, only varying in size. As in all I'urius of 

 Porpki/rio, the females are smaller than the males. 



It is perhaps not correct to place " Poi-pfii/rio neobritannicus'''' A. B. Meyer 

 {Abhandl. Miis. Dresden, 18'.H>91, no. 4, p. 15) as a synonym of ellioti, but we are 

 not in a position, at this moment, to decide aliont this, as no series is available. 

 We nse binomial nomenclature for P. ellioti, as we cannot, at present, review the 

 genus, in order to decide how to arrange the species into chains of subspecies. 



[In the Ibis, 1899, p. 281, and in the Appendix to Webster's Through New 

 Guinea, p. 375, I have quoted two skins, one from St. Gabriel, the easternmost 

 outlying islet of the Admiralty group, and the other from New Hanover, as 

 /'. calms or ?P. ellioti — neobritannicus. The one from New Hanover, however — 

 as I have already explained in Webster's book — is different, and I am now of 

 opinion that it rather belongs to the melanotus gronp, while the one from 

 St. Gabriel appears to be ellioti, though the frontal shield is less rounded behind, 



* Cf. Mathews, B. Avutralia iii. p. 2GI. 



