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allied species, A. tenuirostris (TEMM.),from the Indian Ocean, is charac- 

 terized by the lores being- whitish, not black, as in our species. .1. me- 

 lanogenys is often confounded with the latter in the museums, and it is 

 probable that the A. tenuirostris mentioned by Lichtenstein as being in 

 the Berlin JV1 useuui from the Sandwich Islands (Xomeucl. Av. Mus. Zool. 

 Berol., p. 97) belong to the former. 

 The measurements of the Hawaiian specimens are as follows: 



-z 6 



113455 

 11 34 ."Hi 

 113457 

 113453 



Collector. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Knudseu. 



do .. 



do .. 



do .. 



cfail. Kiihau, Hawaiian Islands. 



fad. 



2 ad. 



?ad. 



.d<> 

 .do 

 .do 



5 'z 



7.5 



7.5 

 7.0 



7 5 



Mr. Kundsen observes that " the Noio live on the rocks about the 

 coast and are not often seen by foreigners." 



f Fulica alai feale. 



Hawaiian Coot. 



Alai keokeo. 



p2G. — Fulica atra Bloxham, Voy. Bloude, p. 251 (ncc Linn.). 



1848. — Fulica alai Peale, Zool., U. S. Exp. Exp., Birds (p. 224, pi. Ixiii, fig. 2). — 

 Hartlaub, Wiegm. Arch. Naturg., 1852, p. 137.— Id., Journ. f. Orn., 

 1854, p. 170.— Cassin, U. S. Exp. Exp., Orn., p. 306, pi. xxxvi (1858).— 

 Id., Proc. Acad. Philada., 1862, p. 322.— Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacif., p. 

 54 (1859).— Pelzelx, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1873, p.—; Extr., p. 7.— 

 Streets, U. S. Nat, Mus., Bulletin 7, p. 21 (1877).— Sclater, P. Z. S., 1878. 

 p. 351.— Id., Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zool., II, pt. vin, p. 99 (1881).— 

 Finch, Ibis, 1880, pp. 78-79.— Wallace, Isl. Life, p. 29(3 (1881).— Ste.tx- 

 eger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 80. 



1869. — Fulica alae'Dohr., Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., xn, p. 302; Extr., p. 9. — Id., Ha- 

 waiian Aim., 1879, p. 54. 



The two specimens sent corroborate the statement already made 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., x, 1887, p. SO) that this species, which is 

 abundant on the southern islands, likewise occurs in Kauai. 



