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darkened on three sides. It soon ate chopped raw meat 
freely, but as it did not become tame and I feared that it 
would escape, I chloroformed it and preserved the skin. 
The soft parts, &c., of these birds were :— 
3. May 21, 1902.—Iris light vermilion. Rim of eyelid 
orange-vermilion. Bill greenish plumbeous, shot or washed 
with blue and greenish blue, greenish along culmen. Legs 
light orange-vermilion. Claws horn-coloured. Bill 1 in. ; 
wing 5°05 in. ; tail 2°50 in.; tarsus 1:70 in.: total length 
10°60 in. 
29. September 21, 1903.—Iris light greenish hazel. Bill 
greenish grey, upper mandible and point of the lower horn- 
coloured. Legs dull greenish, with a tinge of pink. Bill 
0°80 in.; wing 4°85 in. ; tail 2°20 in.; tarsus 1°60 in.: total 
length 9-90 in. 
169. Porzana Fusca (L.). 
Porzana erythrothorax T. & 8.; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 501. 
Amaurornis fuscus (li.); La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 1905, 
p. 59. 
I shot one specimen of this species by a stream in the hill- 
country on April 28. 
170. Porzana pusiLua Pall. 
Porzana pygmea Naum.; Styan, Tbis, 1891, p. 501. 
Porzana pusilla Pall.; Styan, Ibis, 1894, p. 336. 
Passes in April and May and again in October. 
171. AMAURORNIS PH@NIcURA (Forst.). 
Gallinula phenicura (Penn.); Styan, Ibis, 1891], p. 501. 
Amaurornis phenicurus (Forst.); La Touche & Rickett, 
Ibis, 1905, p. 59. 
Extremely common during summer. I took on June 21, 
1908, six hard-sat eggs from a nest of dry flags placed on 
the top of a pollard willow growing in water by the bank of 
an island in a large pond. On May 29 of the following year 
I took six slightly incubated eggs from a nest placed ina 
hedge, in the middle of a hibiscus and honeysuckle bush. 
Besides these I have a clutch of six slightly incubated eggs, 
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