166 EALLID^. 



/. Ad.sk. Qxiee-nslfiVid {J. T. Cockerell). Sahin-Godman Coll. 



ff, h. Ad. sk. South Q.ueensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



i,k. 6 2 ad. sk. N.W. Australia (T. H. Bowyer Capt. Bowyer Bower 

 Bower). [P.]. 



/. Skeleton. Australia. Purchased. 



43. PAREUDIASTES. 



Type. 

 Pareudiastes, Havtl Sf Fm-se/i, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 25 P. pacificus. 



lianye. Confined to the Samoan Islands. 



1. Pareudiastes pacificus. 



Pareudiastes pacificus, llartl. S^- Finsch, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 2;"), 

 pi. 2 (Savai : Rarotonga) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1872, pp. 33, 54 (Savai) ; 

 Whitmee, P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 184, 185 (habits). 



Adult. General colour above dark olive, with a somewhat 

 greenish tinge ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills black, externally 

 somewhat greenish ; lower rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black ; 

 head rather browner than the back ; a line over the eye, lores, sides 

 of face, and throat blackish, with a slight ashy tinge ; lower throat, 

 aides of neck, fore neck, and breast bluish slate-colour ; remainder 

 of under surface dark olive-greenish ; under tail-coverts, under wing- 

 coverts, and quill-lining black. Total length 9 inches, culmen with 

 frontal shield 1-5, wing 4-6, tail 2-35, tarsus 1-45, middle toe and 

 claw 1'6. 



Hah. Samoa Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Samoa. Old Coll. 



6. Ad. sk. Samoa. Rev. S. Whitmee [C.]. 



44. PORPHYRIORNIS. 



Type. 

 Porphyriornis, AUm, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Htst. iv. art. vi. 



p. 57 (1892) P. comeri. 



Range. Confined to Tristan d'Acuuha and Gough Island. 



1. Porphyriornis nesiotis. 



Gallinula nesiotis, Sci. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 261,pl. xxx. ; Gray,Iiand-l. 



B. iii. p. 66, no. 10501 (1871) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 577 j id. Rep. 



Voy. ' Challenger,' n. Birds, p. 113 (1880). 

 Porphyriornis nesiotis, Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. iv. art. vi. 



p. 58 (1892). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark olive-brown ; 

 wing-coverts and inner secondaries like the back : quills and tail- 

 feathers blackish, the first primary edged with white ; head and 

 neck all round and entire under surface black, with a few narrow 

 ovate streaks on the sides of the body ; under tail- coverts white, 

 the central ones black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black like 

 the breast, with a little white along the edge of the wing : " bill 

 crimson, yellow at the tip ; feet yellowish "' {F. L. Sclater). " A red 



