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We have two specimens of a Porzana^ an adult male and an adult 

 female, taken in January in a mangrove swamp on the east shore of 

 Narboro, which differ in no way from the description of P. sharpei 

 by Rothschild and Ilartert. These two specimens are the only rails 

 that we saw, although much time was spent looking for others. 



Genus Galinula Brisson. 

 Galinula Brisson, Ornithologist, vi, p. 2, 1760. 



Range. — Cosmopolitan. Galapagos Archipelago. 



30. GALINULA GALEATA (Lichtenstein). 



Crex galeata Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., p. 80, 1823, 



Galitiula galeata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 621, 1896. — 

 Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 186, 1899. 



Range Tropical and most of temperate America. Galapagos 



Archipelago : Albemarle. 



We obtained two specimens of this species in February near Eliza- 

 beth Bay, Albemarle. The galinules were rather plentiful in the 

 small reedy marshes and salt pools back of the mangrove swamps 

 bordering the north shore of southern Albemarle west of Elizabeth Bay. 



Family PHALAROPODID^. 

 Genus Phalaropus Brisson. 

 Phalaropus Brisson, Ornithologist, vi, p. 12, 1760. 



Range. — Breeding in arctic and subarctic regions of both hemi- 

 spheres, migrating into the tropics. 



31. PHALAROPUS LOBATUS (Linnaeus). 

 Tringa lobata Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, pp. 148, 824, 1758. 



Range. — Northern parts of northern hemisphere ; south in winter 

 to the tropics. Galapagos Archipelago. 



We obtained two specimens of this species March 29 from a flock 

 on the water off the southeast point of Narboro. It has not hitherto 



