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head and a stripe over the eye buffy ; a dark brown stripe extend- 

 ing through the eye ; a dark spot on the ear coverts ; a patch on 

 the side of the rump, the scapularies and wings almost white. 

 The smaller of the specimens is without the whitish patches on the 

 scapularies and sides of the rump, while the dark line extending 

 through the eye is paralleled by a similar one on the cheek extend- 

 ing back to the ear where they unite. 



Plegadis guarauna (Ivinn.). White-faced Glossy Ibis. 



A most interesting acquisition is a mounted specimen (B. P. 

 B. Mus. No. 2218) of this Ibis, which is the third example to be 

 taken in the group. There is no longer uncertainty about its occa- 

 sional occurrence here. The status of the species, so far as I can 

 learn, is based on, first, the specimen, from a flock of five, shot by 

 Dr. W. T. Brigham on Molokai in the fall of 1865. It was sent to 

 Professor Baird for determination and was eventuall}^ lost track of; 

 second, the immature bird colledled by Mr. Knudsen on Kauai in 

 1872 ; third, the present specimen, shot by Mr. Wilder at Kihei, 

 Maui, in the winter of 1893. 



The day previous to its capture Captain Christiansen, then 

 master of the brig J. D. Spreckels, while off the coast of Molokai, 

 saw a pair of these birds and shot one of them, securing the speci- 

 men. He kept the legs and wing and they were compared with 

 the bird in Mr. Wilder's possession ; from the light color of the 

 feathers and legs they concluded this was probably the female and 

 the mate of the specimen before me. 



The bird is an adult in the winter plumage, i. e., with the 

 entire head and neck streaked with black and whitish. I^ength 

 about 22.50, wing 10.00, tail 3.50, tarsus 3.20, culmen 4.45. 



Nycticorax nycticorax nsevius (Bodd.). Black-crowned 



Night Heron. 



A specimen of the young and the adult are in the collecftion 

 from Maui. 



Gallinula sandvicensis Streets. Hawaiian Gallinule. 



Alae. 



One mounted specimen from Maui, 



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