330 ADBENDA. 



Page 38. Add :— 

 2 a. Hypotsenidia muelleri. 



Rallus muelleri, Rothsch. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. viii. p. xl (April 

 1893). 



Adult. Upper surface of head, occiput, and neck brownish red, 

 faintly and irregularly striated with black ; back and rump bright 

 chestnut, with the centres of the feathers black ; wings brownish 

 black, faintly edged with rufous grey ; cheeks reddish grey ; centre 

 of the throat reddish white ; lower part of throat and breast rufous 

 grey ; flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts black, each feather 

 tipped with pale rufous, and with two white bands; tail rufous, 

 with indistinct grey bands. Wing 3*3 inches, culmen I'l, tarsus 

 1"1, central toe with claw 1*3, tail 1-3. (Mus. Stuttgardt.) 



Hah. Auckland Island, south of New Zealand, 



This Rail has been described by the Hon. Walter EothschUd 

 while the present volume was going through the press. It is an 

 island form of H. hrachypus, with the wing-coverts elongated and 

 the feathers of the lower back and rump much puffed out, as in 

 the flightless Weka Rails (Oajdromus and Eulaheornis). Its 

 tawny colour distinguishes it at once from H. hracJiypus. The 

 description is copied from that given by Mr. Rothschild. 



^^^ . Page 45. Hypotaenidia celebensis. 



Hypotajnidia celebensis, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. xv. p. 268 (1893). 



45. Add :— 

 5 a. Hypotsenidia jentinki. 



Hypotsenidia jentinki, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. xv. p. 268 (1893). 



Adult female. Similar to H. celebemis, but much more rufescent 

 on the upper surface and especially more rufous on the wings and 

 tail ; the centre of the head blackish brown, much darker than in 

 H. celebensis ; lores, ear-coverts, and sides of crown jet-black ; under 

 surface of body also black, the white bars very narrow as compared 

 with E. celebensis. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 6*1, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus 2-15, middle toe and claw 2-15. (Mus. Lugd.) 



In dimensions this bird does not diifer very much from H. celeb- 

 ensis, but is generally of a stouter build. It is very nearly aUied 

 to H. saturata, Salvadori, from New Guinea, and has a black throat 

 like that species, but is easily distinguished by its rufous-tinted 

 upper surface. 



Hah. Island of Sula Mangola. 



^^^ . Page 47. Cabalus dieffenbacMi. 



Cabalus dieffenbachii, Forbes, Ibis, 1893, pp. 532, 544. 



