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and also by the shorter wings and tail. Total length, 5.5 inches; cul- 

 mon, 1.(5; wing, 2.!); tail, 1; tarsus, 1; middle toe and claw, 1.2. 

 ^^H((hit((t. — (ialapagos Archipelago; exact island not indicated." 

 I have not seen a specimen of this species, wliich Mr. Shaipe places 

 in a different genus from /'. spUoiiota. P. tabucnsis [lialliifi tahucnsis, 

 Gnielin),' with which ^NFr. Sharpe compares it, is described as being plain 



ASCEKTAINEU KAN(;K oK THE CENTS ( lALLINTLA, IIHISSOX, IN THE (iAI.APAdOS 



AMCHIl'ELAGO. 



1. (!((Uiiiuhi f/aleata (Licbtenstein) ? 



chocolate brown above, darkening into blackish on upper tall coverts 

 and rail, the sides of head and under i)arts slate-gray, paler on throat, 

 the under tail coverts black, with white bars; bill black, feet reddish. 

 It inhabits Polynesia, New Zealand, the Diilippines, etc. 



Genus GALLINULA, Brisson. 

 GaUinula, RuissON', Orn., VI., 17(J0, p. 2. Typo, Fnlica chloropnx, Linnaeus. 



Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. Galapagos Archipelago (one species, 

 apparently identical with the common continental one). 



'Syst. Nat., 1, 17!S^ p. 717- 



