37. ii i.man mrrs. 323 



/'. Ad.sk. Jamaica. Gosse Coll. 



in 1 . Ad. sk. San Domingo. M. Salle [C], 



»'. $ ad. sk. Anguilla, W. I., Apr. 6 (C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



a. Winch) : Cory Coll. 

 o'. J ad. sk. Antigua, Feb. (6b/. Fell- \V. India Committee 



den). Royal Soc. 



p'. 2 ad. sk. St. Vincent, May 9 (Mrs. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



D. W. Smith). 

 q . Ad. sk. Magdalena Valley, Colom- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



bia (C. W. Wyatt). 

 >•', s'. Ad. sic. British Guiana. Sir R. Sckomburgk. 



t! . Ad. sk. Isl. of Mexiana, Lower Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Amazons(^1.7i > . Wallace), 

 u', v'. Imm. sk. Indefatigable Isl., Gala- Salvin-Godman Cull. 



pagos, Sept. (Dr. A. 



llabel). 

 to' . Sternum. Jamaica. Gosse Coll. 



5. Himantopus knudseni. 



Himantopus nigricollis (nee 1'ieill.), Pels. Verhandl. z.-b. ties. Wien, 

 xxiii. p. 159 (1873: Honolulu, Feb.). 



Himantopus caudidus {nee Bonn.), Dole, Hawaiian Aim. 1879, p. 52 ; 

 Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 79 (Honolulu). 



Himantopus knudseni, Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mns. x. p. 81, pi. vi. 

 tig. 2 (1887: Kauai Isl.), xi. p. 96 (1888: Niib.au), xii. p. 381 

 (1889); Seebohm, Geoff r. Distr. Charadr. p. 280 (1888); Scott 

 Wilson 8f Evans, Aves Haicaiienses, pt. iv. (1893). 



At I nU. Similar to H. rnexicanus, but larger and with a longer 

 bill. General colour above sooty black with a greenish gloss; the 

 wings deeper black, glossed with green ; entire back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts white, the latter edged with black ; tail-feathers 

 ashy grey, with white shafts and a good deal of white on the 

 inner webs; all the feathers tipped with black; head and neck 

 black, including the feathers in front of the eye, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and sides of neck : below the eye, and behind the upper 

 part of the latter, a white spot ; base of forehead, lores, cheeks, and 

 under surface of body pure white ; under wing-coverts black ; axil- 

 laries white. Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 3*1, wing 9'3, 

 tail 3, tarsus 4 - 7. 



Hah. Sandwich Islands. 



8. Ad. sk. Hawaii. Prof. Oollett [P.]. 



6. 2 ad- sk- Molokai, May 10 (P. C. L. Joint Comm. Roy. Soc. 

 Perkins). & Brit. Assoc. 



6. Himantopus melas. 



Himantopus melas, Hombr. §■ Jacq. Ann. Sci. Nat. i2) xvi. p. 320 

 (1841: Otago); Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. ii. p. 70(1870: 

 llakaia river-bed, Oct. to Due, breeding) ; Seebvhm, Geor/r. Distr. 

 Charadr. p. 286 (1888). 



Himantopus novae zealaudis, Gould, P. Z, 8. 1841, p.8 (Port Nichol- 

 bou), | > t . ; id. /;. Austr. \i. pi. 25 (1841) ; Gray, in Dieffenb. Trav. 

 N. /.ml. ii. App. p. 190 (1843: Tort Nicholson); id. Voy. 



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