PENNULA WILSONI. 77 



NOTE X. 



ON THE SO-CALLED „SANDWICH RAIL" 

 IN THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 



BY 



Dr. O. PINSCH. 



Synonymy: Crex sandwichensis Schleg. (nee Rallus 

 saridwichensis Gml.), Mus. P.-B. Ralli , 1865, p. 25. 



Rallus sandwichensis Hartl. (nee Gml.), Abhandl. naturw. 

 Vereiüs ia Bremen, XH (1892), p, 397 (syn. part.). — 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p. 443. 



Pennula sandwichensis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIII 

 (1894), p. 336 (syn. part.). 



Pennula Wilsoni Fiuseh. 



öchlegel's type in the Leyden Museum: 



Upper parts dark ruddy brown with blackish centres to 

 the feathers of the back and wings , producing on these 

 parts well marked blackish longitudinal stripes; head and 

 neck somewhat lighter and uniform ruddy brown , like the 

 sides of head and neck ; underparts uniform rusty brown , 

 shading into vinous red, a little darker on the flanks; 

 middle of chin somewhat lighter; anal region and lower 

 tail-coverts dark vinous-red, forming ajwell marked darker 

 patch ; primaries blackish , very narrowly margined with 

 brown on the outer web; broad and lax upper tail-co- 

 verts with very narrow light rusty-brown apical margins , 

 showing as lighter undulations. — Bill and feet light horny- 

 brown (as far as can be judged greenish in life.) — Sex 

 and Habitat unknown. 



>Jotes from ttie Leyden Museum, Vol. X.X. 



