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spotted with II. 5 (slate-grey); legs aud feet jellow, spotted with black on the toes, 

 sometimes the toes quite black; iris VI. 2 (cadminm-orange). 



This is the true M. lajjerouse which was described from Guam, Botta, and Tiuian. 

 Oustalet (in Annales Sc. A'atur. 1891. p. 196) declared it to be the same as J/, senex 

 liartl. from Pelew. Grant (Cat. B. XXII. p. 400) followed Oustalet, never having 

 seen any specimens except from the Pelew Islands. The two forms are certainly 

 very closely allied, but J/, sencx diifers from .1/ laperouse in a decidedly paler grey 

 top of the head, which is not obvionsh- different from the nape; M. Inpcrouse 

 however has the crown darker and a patch on the nape or uppermost hind-neck 

 I)ale ashy grey, in contrast with the colour of the crown. Wing 170 — 180 mm. 



The young is coloured exactly like the one of M. senex described aud tignred in 

 the Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 



21. Hypotaenidia owstoni Rothsch. (Oust. II. p. 32). 



RaXe tiklin Quoy et Gaimard, Voijoye i'ratiie, Zool. I. p. 35. 



Rallus j/hilqip'mensis, NA'iglesworth, Ares Polytusiae, in Abluimll. itBcr. JIua. Dresden 18'.>0-91. p. 69. 



sp. 305 (j)artim, Rah tiklin ex Guam). 

 Hypotaenidia owstoni Rothscb. in Nov. Zoul. II. p. 481 (1895). 

 //. marchei, Oustalet, op. cit. 11. p. 32 (1896). 



In 1895 Mr. Rothschild described this species from three J'ema leu. It is named 

 in honour of Mr. Alan Owston, of Yokohama. Since then Mr. Rothschild has 

 received three more females and one male, all from Guam, where it was also 

 found by Marche. The female is well described in Nov. Zool. II. p. 481 by 

 Mr. Rothschild, and as also Professor Oustalet has given us a very good description, 

 I need not add much. I may only say that the male seems a little larger than 

 the females, especially the beak longer. Exposed culmen 40 mm.; wing 125; 

 tail 44; tarsus 51. 



The remiges are very soft and short, so that the bird cannot fly much. This 

 is confirmed by the note of the collectors saying that " it cannot fly high." (See 

 Rothsch., Nov. Zool. II. p. 487.) 



22. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.) (Oust. II. p. 34). 



Gallinula spec, Ejttlitz, Reise II. p. 145. 



Gallinula galeata var. sandwichensis (sic) {nee Streets, Stejneger, Ridgway, Wilson X Evans 

 Sharps), Oustalet, op. cit. p. 34. 



Kittlitz, lieise II. p. 145, tells us that he got a moorhen on Guam, " which 

 was very much like our Gallinula chloropus." " The Gallinula," he says, " is said 

 to be very rare on Guam, and it may have much opportunity to hide in the 

 inaccessible reed-thickets. I never saw it in the open, but I got two alive. 

 Unfortunately only the less fine one of the two, a young male, remained for me, 

 the other, much finer bird, escaping out of the cage in wliich it was brought. 

 The iris in this was blackish brown; bill and frontal shield beautifully red; the 

 feet yellow, with green toes and red knee-bands. The plumage seemed to be 

 t)Iacker than that of G. chloropus, which differs specifically already in the colour 

 of the iris." The specimens before me, however, do not, according to the notes 



