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  Club. 
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  Chloridops 
  kona, 
  Wilson^ 
  from 
  Hawaii 
  ; 
  Loxioides 
  bailleui, 
  

   Oust., 
  from 
  Hawaii. 
  

  

  A 
  communication 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  referred 
  to 
  

   the 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  Fin-feet 
  {Heliornithidce). 
  He 
  pointed 
  

   out 
  that 
  the 
  Burmese 
  Podica 
  personata 
  had 
  hitherto 
  been 
  

   considered 
  to 
  be 
  congeneric 
  with 
  P. 
  senegalensis 
  of 
  Africa. 
  

   Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  showed, 
  however, 
  that 
  its 
  affinities 
  lay 
  with 
  

   the 
  American 
  Heliornis 
  fulica, 
  which 
  had 
  the 
  same-shaped 
  

   bill 
  and 
  wings 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  soft 
  tail, 
  very 
  different 
  

   from 
  the 
  stiff-ribbed 
  rectrices 
  of 
  P. 
  senegalensis. 
  The 
  

   webbing 
  of 
  the 
  toes 
  was 
  different 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  genera, 
  and 
  

   Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  proposed 
  for 
  the 
  Burmese 
  species 
  the 
  new 
  

   generic 
  name 
  of 
  

  

  Heliopais, 
  gen. 
  n. 
  

  

  H. 
  similis 
  generi 
  ' 
  Heliornis 
  ' 
  dicto, 
  sed 
  digitis 
  tantum 
  ad 
  

  

  basin 
  palmatis, 
  nee 
  flavo 
  fasciatis 
  distinguendus. 
  

   Typus. 
  Podica 
  personata, 
  Gray. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  also 
  communicated 
  the 
  diagnoses 
  of 
  some 
  

   apparently 
  new 
  genera 
  of 
  Cranes 
  {Gruidce), 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  -*-■ 
  1. 
  LiMNOGERANUs, 
  gen. 
  n. 
  

  

  Genus 
  simile 
  generi 
  ' 
  Grus 
  ' 
  dicto, 
  sed 
  genis 
  anticis 
  nudis, 
  

   pileo 
  usque 
  ad 
  nuoham 
  nudo, 
  loris 
  nudis, 
  regione 
  sub- 
  

   oculari 
  et 
  postoculari 
  plumosa 
  distinguendum. 
  

  

  Typus. 
  Limnogeranus 
  americanus 
  (L.), 
  

  

  2. 
  Sarcogeranus, 
  gen. 
  n. 
  

  

  Genus 
  simile 
  prsecedenti, 
  sed 
  pileo 
  antico 
  tantum 
  nudo, 
  pileo 
  

   postico 
  plumoso, 
  genis 
  posticis 
  quoque 
  plumosis, 
  loris 
  

   et 
  regione 
  oculari 
  nudis 
  distinguendum. 
  

  

  Typus. 
  Sarcogeranus 
  leucogeranus 
  (Pall.). 
  

  

  3. 
  Pseudogeranus, 
  gen. 
  n. 
  

  

  Genus 
  simile 
  generi 
  ' 
  Antigone 
  ' 
  dicto, 
  sed 
  regione 
  parotica 
  

   genisque 
  plumosis, 
  regione 
  supra- 
  et 
  infra-ocuiari 
  et 
  

   . 
  faciei 
  lateribus 
  nudis, 
  collo 
  postico 
  plumoso, 
  usque 
  ad 
  

   verticeui 
  anticam 
  producto, 
  distinguendum. 
  

  

  Typus. 
  Pseudogeranus 
  leucauchen 
  (T.). 
  

  

  