320 On Birds from the Solomon Archipelago. 



XLI. — Third Contribution to the List of Birds collected hy 

 Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago. By W. 

 R. Ogilvie Grant. 



Amongst a small collection of birds made at Guadalcanar and 

 Rubiana by Mr. Woodford subsequent to the last collection, 

 which was recorded in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society' for 1888 (pp. 185-204), is a very fine Rail, which 

 is apparently quite new to science, and I propose to name 

 it in honour of the collector 



Rallina Woodfordi, sp. n. 



"Whole upper surface, cheeks, and suborbital region very 

 dark brown, washed with rufous, especially on the scapulars, 

 edges of the outer webs of the quills, rump, and tail. Inner 

 webs of the bastard-wing and first two primary-quills with 

 three or four transverse white spots ; rest of primaries with 

 one or two small white spots near their base. Postorbital 

 region and under surface dark greyish black, becoming almost 

 quite black towards the under tail-coverts and flanks. Chin 

 and an indistinct stripe down the throat whitish. Under 

 wing-coverts and under surface of bastard-wing and quills 

 blackish, the former barred with white, w^liile the two latter 

 are spotted with the same colour as described above and edged 

 with dull olive-brown. First digit with a well-developed 

 booked nail '3 of an inch long. 



" Bill black ; legs grey ; iris red, Aola, Guadalcanar. 

 6. xii. 88." 



inches. 



Wing 6-6 



Tarsus 2-3 



Middle too (with nail) 2-3 



Culmeu 1"6 



Total length 14-0 



This species, so far as I can discover, is most nearly allied 

 to Rallina ^'aciloj^tera, Hartl. (Finsch and Hartlaub, Beitr. z. 

 Fauna Centralpol. p. 156, pi. xii. fig. 1), which was dis- 

 covered in Fiji, but is easily distinguished by being generally 

 very much darker in the tone of the plumage, and by having 

 the inner webs of the primaries spotted with white instead of 

 rufous, the bill black, and the legs grey. 



