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becomes duller and more rusty in colour, until finally it 

 fades to a rusty brown without gloss. Two examples from 

 Sulphur Island are in the intermediate stage. 



PoRZANA QUADRISTRIGATA. 



The White-eyebrowed Crake was occasionally seen on 

 Sulphur Island, and one example was sent home. It was 

 taken on the 7th of June. This is probably the most northerly 

 locality whence it has been obtained. 



4- ToTANUS INCANUS BREVIPES. 



Two examples, supposed to be the Asiatic Wandering 

 Tattler, were seen. 



-f-DlOMEDEA NIGRIPES. 



A species of Black Albatros was breeding in great numbers 

 on the sandy ground, many rotten eggs were lying about, 

 and there were plenty of young in down, some almost full- 

 grown, standing like so many soldiers on guard. An egg 

 taken on the 8th of June measures 4*2 inches by 2'6 inches, 

 and is dirty white, without any spots. 



^PUFFINUS CUNEATUS. 



The types of this Shearwater were discovered in the 

 spring of 1883 on Krusenstern Island, between the Sandwich 

 Islands and the Marshall Islands, by Mr. Snow of Yokohama, 

 who sent them to me. Being unable to identify them with 

 any known species of Puffinus, I gave one of them to Mr. 

 Salvin, who described it as a new species under the name of 

 Pvffinus cuneatus in the, July number of this journal for 1888 

 (Ibis, 1888, p. 353). Four months later, on the 8th of 

 November, the same species was described as Puffinus 

 knudseni (Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1888, p. 93) from 

 an example discovered by Mr. Knudsen on Kauai, one of the 

 Sandwich Islands. 



Snow's Shearwater has a long cuneate tail (central rectrices 

 5"4, outer ones 3'7 inches) j the mantle is brown (not grey), 

 and the breast and belly white. It breeds abundantly on 

 Sulphur Island, and Mr. Hoist has sent a female, with the 

 egg taken with it; the latter measures 25 inches by 1*65, 

 and is unspotted. On the label of the skin the bill is said to 



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