TOWNSK.M) AM) V\l IMolU : MM. lllKDS. 1 7.'{ 



S. IxoiiKVi ms SINENSIS HKYAM (Scalc). 



Ardctlii hrynui S<'iilt', Orcus. p:ipiTs Hcniicr I'jiu.-ilii Bishop riuis., I'.MK), 1, 

 no. ',\, p. 27. (CiuniiiK 



All imniiHiirf inalc (»f tlic Little yrllow hittrrii \\ii.s taken (»ii (iuaiii, 

 21 Fehruarv. I'.MH). ('oiiiparisoii of a larj;e .s»'rit*.s of tin's!' sniall 

 bitterns in the I . S. N. M. from various IcK-alities (in<lu(lin^: a«lult 

 birtls taken on (niain) shows that the bird descrihed hy Seale as 

 Ardriia bnjmti may l»e reeo^Miized as a \ahd form of the w idcsjtrc ail 

 Ixohryrh u.s sin r//.v/.v. 



9. IxoMKYCurs SINENSIS MooREi, subsp. nov. 



Characfcrs. — Similar to I.a)hr!/rlni.s sinenms hrxjani (Seale) from 

 Guam but l)ack darker and duller in color, more fjrayish; distal i)ortion 

 of scapulars and tertiais duller, and prayer; sides of Jiead and neck 

 much more pinkish, this color sharply defined from buff of throat, and 

 not merjxing gradually into it; sides of neck much brighter, more 

 pinkish brown. 



Type— v. S. N. M. 212,171. Adult male. Polynesia: Mi.ldle 

 Caroline Islands; Truk Group, I'ala, IC. Fe])ruary, 19(K). H. F. Moore. 



Description. — Feathers of crown dusky neutral gray, changing to 

 deep neutral gray at sides and on elongate crest, a slight brownish 

 wash e^•ident anteriorly; feathers of hind neck cameo-brown, this 

 color extending to shoulders; back bister, with a slight intermixture 

 of snuff-brown; rump deep mouse-gray, shading into blacki.sh mouse- 

 gray at tips of upper tail coverts; elongate scapulars between snuff- 

 brown and bister; tertiais mou.se-gray, the longer ones w^ashed at the 

 tips with snuff-brown; primaries black, thi' outer one margined 

 indistinctly with paler, especially near tips, the others washed some- 

 what with neutral gray; outer secondaries black, washed lightly with 

 neutral gray, inner ones snuff-brown; greater, middle, and lower 

 lesser coverts between honey -yellow and isal)clla-color, with a slight 

 wash of warm buff; shoulder and upper le.s.ser coverts snuff-brown; 

 large feathers of alula dusky neutral gray, the outer one margined 

 broadly with light buff'; anterior margin of wing white with a faint 

 buffy tinge; sides of head and neck between mikado-brown and 

 verona-l)rown, this color sharply differentiated from lighter color of 

 throat and neck, somewhat less sharply demarked posteriorly; throat 

 white with a very faint tinge of buff; foreneck pinkish buff, becoming 



