iSSS.] Elliot o/i the JacaHidcc. 303 



figs. 1126-29. — G R. Gray, Ihmdl. 15. 1871, II. p. 70. — Gakkod, 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 34- 

 Paira crislaia SciiLEG. {ncc ViEiLL.) Mus. Pays-B. Ralli, 1865, p. 68 — 



SiiAKPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1877, XII, ji. 505. 

 Paira 7ioxHe-giiinece Ramsay, Trans. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1S78. II. 



p. 29S, 1879, IV, p. 102. — Salvad. Ibis, 1879, P- 3-7- 

 Adult: — To|) of head, occiput, and stripe down the back of the neck, 

 narrow line over upper part of back at base of neck, breast, tlanks and 

 under wing-coverts, black. Throat white. Sides of head and neck, as well 

 as the neck in front, golden yellow. Sj)ot from eye to base of mandible 

 black. Hack ami wings pale, shining, grayish olive. Primaries greenish 

 'black. Rump and upper tail-coverts grayish olive, feathers tip)ied with 

 black. Abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts white. Tail tlark oli\e 

 green, alm:)st black in certain lights. Forehead covered bv a nakeil 

 shield, having a central, horizontal, flat, keel-shaped membrane, extend- 

 ing from its posterior limits along the culmen nearly to the nostrils. This, 

 together with the basal two thirds of the bill, is yellow in skin (aurora- 

 red, according to Gould, in life) ; apical third of bill blackish brown. Meta- 

 carpal spur small and blunt. Legs and feet olive, (joidd says that the 

 '•forepart of tibia is red with a mi.\ture in patches of yellow and greenish- 

 gray." There is no imlication of this in the specimens before me. Total 

 length, 9 in. ; wing, 5', in.; tail, 2 in. ; bill, li in. Young have entire 

 under surtace while; heael and occiput , reddish clieslnut; back, retldisb 

 brown. 



Haijitat. Ceiehes (Meyer, von Rosenberg). Haiula (G. R. 

 Gray), Mysol (Wallace) , Yule Island, Naial\iii, New Guinea 

 (D'Alhertis), Port Essington, Austr. (Gould), (^jiecnslaud, 

 Northeastern New South Wales (Ramsay). 



S[)eciniens from New Guinea, according- to Ramsav ditVcr 

 somewhat, esueciallv in the darker color of the wiii^s ; hut. as 

 S ilvadori says, examples from New (iuinea and .\iislralia le- 

 semhle ty[)ical ones from Ceiehes, and the dill'erences of certain 

 individuals are not sulVicient to constitute a specific si'pai ation. 

 lie concludes his remarks, however, hy mort<4a<^ini( the Austra- 

 lian bird, by saying", that if it is deemed necessary to imi)ose a 

 new name upon it, he suLigests I/ydralcctor >/oviC-/u>//iJi/iiiic. 

 The evidence presented to me by the specimens at n^\ command 

 does not render it necessary that this mortgage should be fore- 

 closed as yet. 



Hydrophasianus chirurgus. 



Le cliinirgicn dc V Isle de Litcoii. SoNN. Voy. Nov. Guin. 1776. p. 82, 



Pl- 4.S- 

 Tringa chirurgus Scop. Del. Flor. Faun. Insub. 17S6, p. 92 (ex Sonn.). 



