336 ADDENDA. 



Pennula sandwichensis. 



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



Rallus sandwichensis, Gm. Syst. Ifat. i. p. 32-5 (1788) ; Hartl. 



Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. Heft 3, p. 397 (1892) ; Sharpe, 



Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, viii. p. xlii (April 1893). 

 Pennula ecaudata (pt.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 114 



(1894). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above ruddy brown with 

 blackish centres to the feathers, producing a broadly striped ap- 

 pearance ; wing-coverts like the back and very much elongated ; 

 quills blackish with rusty-brown edges ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 completely hidden by the long feathers of the rump ; head more 

 uniform brown, with a ruddy tinge ; sides of face like the head ; 

 throat and under surface of body dark vinous red, a little paler on 

 the latter. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2-8, tail 0-7, 

 tarsus 1"3, middle toe and claw 1-35. {Mus. Lugd.) 



Hah. Sandwich Islands ; apparently extinct. 



^^^ . Page 115. Aphanolimnas monasa. 



Kittlitzia monasa, Finsch, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, p. 240 (1893). 

 AphanoUmuas monasa, Finsch, Orn. MS. Schutze, Voyeho. xviii. 

 p. 3, pi. iv. (1893). 



^(j^. Page 116. Corethrura pulchra, 



Corethrura pulchra, Sharpe, Notes Leyd. Mus. xv. p. 269 (1893). 



In the Leyden Museum is a young bird in changing plumage. It 

 has the rufous head and chest of the adult, but the centre of the 

 fore neck and the rest of the under surface are light brown, with a 

 few freshly moulted white-spotted feathers interspersed. 



Page 123. Eallicula rubra. 



The typical specimen in the Leyden Museum is mounted and 

 shows that the tail is very bushy, though this is also the case with 

 Cortthrura to a less extent. la Rallicula, however, the bill is much 

 more massive and is about equal to the outer toe and claw, whereas 

 in Corethrura the bill is much shorter than the latter. 



a. Ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, N.W. New H. Veitch, Esq. 



Guinea (Byrne). 



This specimen was recently received by the Museum from one of 

 Mr. Veitch's collectors and is probably the female of B. rubra. It 

 differs from all the specimens I have seen as yet, in having the 

 mantle longitudinally streaked with rufous, and the wing-coverts, 



