114 KALLID^. 



inner secondaries like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown, externally rufescent brown ; tail-feathers 

 black ; head, neck, and underparts dark slaty grey, a little more 

 dusky on the head ; cheeks and throat a little paler grey ; sides of 

 vent and under tail-coverts dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries dusky, slightly washed with rufous brown. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 4-4, tail 1-9, tarsus 1"35. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas from Nepal to the Hills of Assam and 

 Manipur. 



Purchased. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. (Type 



of P. eiwesi.) 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 (Type of species.) 



27. PENNULA. ^ 



Type. 



Penmua, Dole, Haivaiian Annual, 1879, p. 14 P. ecaudata. 



Bange. Sandwich Islands. 



1. Pennula ecaudata. 



Rallus ecaudatus, J. King in Cook's Voyage Pacific Ocean, iii. p. 119 



(1784). 

 Dusky Rail, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 237 (1785). 

 ? Sandwich Rail, Lath. t. c. p. 236. 

 Rallus obscurus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 718 (1788). 

 ? Rallus sandwichensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 325 (1788) ; Hartl. 



Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. Heft 3, p. 397 (1892). 

 Moho, Peale, P. Z. S. 1862, p_. 145. 

 Pennula millsi, Dole, Hawaiian Annual, 1879, p. 14; A, Neivton, 



P. Z. S. 1889, p. 5. 

 Pennula ecaudata, Hartl. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. Heft 3, 



p. 396 (1892) ; Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. iv. p. xx (Dec. 



1892) ; Hartl. op. cit. no. v. p. xxiv (Jan. 1893). 

 Pennula sandwichensis, Sfiarpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. iv. p. xx 



(Dec. 1892)*. 



Adult. General colour above dark vinous chocolate-brown, a 

 little more dingy on the head, lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, the latter being all somewhat mottled with blackish bases 

 to the feathers ; wing-coverts like the back ; qiiiUs blackish, with 

 chocolate-brown edges ; tail-feathers concealed, blackish with 

 chocolate-brown edges ; lores fulvescent ; ear-coverts dark ashy ; 

 cheeks, throat, and breast deep vinous, shading off into dusky 

 chocolate-brown on the abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; 



* Dr. Hartlaub {op. cit. no. v. p. xxiv) dissents from ruy opinion that 

 P. sandwichensis is the same as P. ecaudata. 



