Dr. T. H. Streets on a new Moorhen. 



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Salvad. /. c. p. 379. 



Iris very dark brown ; bill black ; 



Angus stolidus (L.) 



a,b. (^ ? . Bintulu. 

 legs soot-brown. 



[These birds are scarce on tlie Sarawak coast. The above 

 pair made their appearance, along with two or three more, 

 in a gale of wind during the N.E. monsoon. — A. E.] 



II. — Description of aneio Moorhen from the Hawaiian Islands. 

 By Thomas H. Streets, M.D., U.S. Navy. 



Gallinula sandvicensis, sp. nov. 



Gallinula chloropus, Peale, Orn. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 220. 

 G. Gallinula cMoropodi sat similis, sed major, alis brevioribus, 

 clypeo frontali multo majore, coloribus saturatioril)us, 

 abdomine concolori, campterio vix albo, tarsis antice ru- 

 bescentibus. 



Frontal shield of Gallinula sandvicen&is. 



Frontal plate very large, terminating square on the top of 

 the head, much inflated, its posterior margin on a line with 

 the posterior margin of the orbit ; laterally it encroaches on 

 the orbit, leaving but a narrow feathered space between them ; 

 the bill shorter than the head, thick, compressed ; wings 



