the Imperial Collection at Vienna. 43 



The synonymy would be : — 



Hypotcenidia australis. 



Rallus pectoralis, Gould, Birds Austral, vi. t. 76 ; Reichenb. 

 Vog. Neuholl. 159, n. 478; idem, Naturg. Novit. t. cccv. 

 f. 2465, 2466 ; Cassin, Unit. St. Expl. Exped. 303 j Gray, 

 Birds Tropic. Isl. 52 partim ; Pelzeln, Orn. Nov. 134 ; Finsch 

 et Hartl. Orn. Centr. Polyn. 157, partim, t. 3. f. 3 (egg). 



Rallus philippensis, Peale, Unit. St. Expl. Exp. 222. 



Hypotcenidia philippensis, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. (1856) 

 599; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, 23; Gould, Handb. 

 Birds Austral, ii. 334. 



Rallus hypotcenidia (Bonap.), Verreaux et des Murs, Rev. 

 de Zool. 1860, 437. 



Hub. Australia {Gould, Peale) ; Samoa, Feejee, Tonga Isles 

 (Peale) ; New Caledonia ( Verr. et Des Murs) . 



For comparison I add the dimensions of our specimens of 

 the two nearly related species, H. torquata and H. celebensis. 



Hypotcenidia torquata (Linne). 



Bill from Tertiaries 



Length. Wing. Tail. frontal Tars. M f iddle + f 10rt <f 



8 feather. toe - than ^ e 



primaries. 



1. M. From M. Verreaux. in. lin. in. lin. in. lin. lin. lin. lin. lin. 

 Philippine Islands . . 12 6 2 19| 26 20| 3 



2. M. From Paris Mu- 

 seum? 12 5 9 2 16 25 18| — 



Hypotcenidia celebensis (Quoy et Gaim.). 



L. M. Gorontalo, July, 



coll. by Rosenberg 11 6 5 8 2 6 18 24 18| 10 



2. F. Gorontalo, April, 



Rosenberg 10 9 4 10 2 6 14 ? 19 15| 10 



3.M.J. Gorontalo, April, 



Rosenberg 10 9 5 2 6 14 19| 15| 10 



M.? Celebes? From the 



Austrian Expedit. to 



Eastern Asia 12 6 2 6 ? 18 24 18| 13 



93. Porzana, ? sp. (143, 144.) 



Male and female (small Waterhens), were not received in 

 the collection, being in bad preservation. 



