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 HETEROSCBLUS INC ANUS, {Gm.) Coues [No. 6732iJ. 



Scolopax incana, Gmel., Syst. Nal., i, 1788, 658, 



Tringa glareola, Pallas, Zoog. Eoss.-As., ii, 1811, 194, pi. 60. 



Totanus hrevipes, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 410. 



Scolopax undulata, FoRST., Descr. An., ed. Licht, 1844, 173. 



Scolopax pacifica, FORSX., Descr. An., ed. Licht., 1844, 174. 



Toianus oceanicus, Less., Consp. Bu£f., 1847, 244. 



Totanus polynesioe, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., Orn., 1848, 237. 



Totanus fuliginosus, Gould, Voy. Beagle, Birds, 1841, 130. ' 



Heteroscelus brevipes, Bd., Birds N. Am., 1858, 734, pi. 88. 



Eeteroscelus incanus, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872,261. 



Locality: Palmyra Island, Fanning group, North Pacific Ocean. 

 KUMENIUS FEMORALIS, Feale [No. 67336]. 



Xutnenius femoralis, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., Orn. 1848, 233, pi. 37. — Coues, Check- 

 list N. A. Birds, 1874, 135. 



Locality: Palmyra Island. Very abundant on this island. A few 

 only were seen on Christmas and the other islands of the group. 



EALLIDiE. 



GALLINULA SANDVICENSIS, Streets [No. 67361]. 



" Gallinula chloropus A.vd."{=G. galeata), Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped., Orn., 1848, 220 (neo 



auct.). 

 . Gallinula eandvicensis, Streets, Ibis, i, 4th series, 1877, p. 25, fig. 



Frontal plate very large, terminating squarely on the top of the head, 

 much inflated, the posterior margin on a line with the posterior border 

 of tLo orbit; latterly, it encroaches on the orbit, being separated from it 

 by a very narrow feathered space ; the bill shorter than the head, thick, 

 compressed ; wings rather short in proportion to the size of the species, 

 when compared with other species of the same group; first primary 

 shorter than the second ; second and third of equal lengths, the rest 

 graduated ; tail short ; tarsus rather long and stout, rounded in front, 

 and compressed posteriorly; toes and claws long and robust. 



The entire under surface of the body of one color, which is a dark 

 slaty ; no marks of white on the abdomen; the head and neck all around 

 much darker than the rest of the body — nearly black, with a slight 

 brownish tinge; a few of the long feathers of the flanks with long spots 

 of white on the superior web; the edge of the wing at the bend, and 

 the external margin of the outer web of the first primary marked with 

 a very constricted line of white; the under surface of the wing of the 



