320 On Birds from the Solomon Archipelago. 
XLI.—Third Contribution to the List of Birds collected by 
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 Woodfordt, 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, while the two latter 
are spotted with the same colour as described above and edged 
with dull olive-brown. First digit with a well-developed 
hooked nail °3 of an inch long. 
“ Bill black; legs grey; iris red. Aola, Guadalcanar. 
6. xu. 88.” 
inches. 
Wa LEI Raleta storcsterecstanraers stoi 6:5 
Dawsus id. Ai7-ts ice wes iecihas erabo eieeton he 2°3 
Middle toe (with nail) 6 4...0).eicesisi0% 2:3 
Cilmi eins 2.5 itioers carats lawieus waagarsteiabalens 16 
Motslilenet iirc sie ocelcks eraiepeieaitr. eek 14:0 
This species, so far as I can discover, is most nearly allied 
to Rallina peciloptera, Hartl. (Finsch and Hartlaub, Beitr. z. 
Fauna Centralpol. p. 156, pl. xu. 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. 
