78 PENNULA WILSONI, 



Measurements taken from the above type. 



(French) 

 (Engl.) 



The wing is round ; the primaries nearly hidden under 

 the long and soft coverts; the first primary is 40 mm. 

 long and 15 mm. shorter than the S^d and 4*^, which are the 

 longest, though only a little longer than the 2°^ and 5th; 

 the exact number of primaries is difficult to ascertain with- 

 out injuring the specimen. For the same reason I am able 

 to find only two tailfeathers (dark coloured, soft, narrow 

 and 20 mm. long), as they are hidden under the extremely 

 thick , long and soft upper tail-coverts and are difficult to 

 distinguish from the latter. So this species may be called 

 „ecaudatus'^ as truly as Pennula ecaudata (King) , and , as 

 seen by the structure of the wings , is no doubt a flightless 

 form. The feet are feeble; the nails short and small. 



The type specimen in the Leyden Museum is stuffed and 

 not too well ; the stuffing , however, is apparently not of 

 very old date , as may be judged from the artificial eyes (with 

 red irides), which seem to be of enemelled glass, or — at any 

 rate — of a kind, which was unknown in the beginning 

 of this century. The wire used for stuffing is of brass, as 

 commonly used by the taxidermists of the Leyden Museum. 



On the underside of the stand of the specimen is written, 

 undoubtedly by the hand of Temminck, » Rallus — Latham", 

 and perhaps also by Temminck ■>•> Rail, obscura"'^ to this is 

 added y)Crex sandwichensis, Cat. N°. 1", no doubt written by 

 Schlegel, as possibly also are the words » Sandwich. Cook". 

 In the Catalogue of the Ralli Schlegel says unhesitatingly 



1) The measurements of the wings and culmen given here are not exact. 

 Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. X.X.. 



