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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAX. MUSEUM. 



VOL. 64. 



Simalur Island, all males, that Oberholser refers in manuscript to 

 the same race as the Nias bird do not bear out the character of small 

 size, in fact they are intermediate in this respect between A. p. 

 chinensis and A. p. javanica. A. p. cleptea is apparently a good 

 race, somewhat darker and smaller than A. p. javanica. 



Below I give the average measurements of all the sexed adults 

 available to me : 



30. GALLINULA FRONTATA WaUace. 



Two males, Toli Toli, December 11 and 17, 1914; four males, two 

 females, and two young, Rano Lindoe, March 20-26, 1917. 



One of the young is in the black down and was taken March 20; 

 the other young, taken March 26, is older and feathered but still 

 with some of the down adhering to the plumage. The latter may be 

 described as follows: Nape, hind-neck, and remaining upper-parts 

 sooty black; forehead, sides of face, sides, flanks, and chest deep 

 mouse gray, much darker on the forehead; throat and abdomen 

 white, the throat with a few scattering black feathers. 



31. PORPHYRIO CALVUS PALLIATUS Briiggemann. 



One male, Besoa, November 9, 1917. 



Besides the specimen recorded above the United States National 

 Museum possesses an unsexed example from north Celebes and a 

 male and female from Java. The two Celebes birds closely resemble 

 each other and differ from the Javan pair in being considerably 

 darker, both above and below, especially in the blue of the hind- 

 neck ; the bill is larger and the horn c^lor of the tip more extensive. 



