1882.] MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON A NEW TEPHRAS, 357 
coloration, a description of the one would apply almost equally well 
to the other. 
The measurements of a young bird of G. macrodactyla less than 
a week old, and conseguently unable to fly, are :—Bill 1°5, wing 2°5, 
bare portion of tibia *5, tarsus 1°7 inch. 
Before concluding my remarks on this species it seems desirable 
to say a few words on the synonymy, since the bird has hitherto 
been usually known as Gallinago bernieri of Pucheran, who named 
it after the first collector who brought specimens of the bird to 
Europe. Pucheran’s description was published in the ‘Revue de 
Zoologie,’ 1845; but some years prior to this, namely between 1832 
and 1841, Bonaparte’s ‘ Iconografia della Fauna Italica’ appeared 
in parts (unpaged). In one of these parts, in the course of a notice 
of Gallinago brehmi (a variety of the common European Snipe), of 
which the part in question contains a coloured figure, a review of 
the various species of Gadlingo known to the author is given, in the 
course of which two new species are described :—one from Madagascar, 
named by Bonaparte macrodactyla; the other from the Cape, named 
by him nigripennis, and subsequently by Riippell (1845) equatorialis. 
His description of macrodactyla, which applies to the present species, 
was founded upon a specimen in the Paris Museum, which had 
been brought by Dr. Bernier from Madagascar, and was in all 
probability the same type from which Pucheran subsequently de- 
scribed and named his Gallinago bernieri. It is evident, therefore, 
that Bonaparte’s name for this species, Gallinago macrodactyla, has 
precedence. 
I have seen no specimen of this bird from any part of Africa; and, 
so far as at present known, it appears to be confined entirely to 
Madagascar. 
4. Description of a new Species of Bird of the Genus Tephras. 
By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., C.M.Z.8. 
[Received March 14, 1882.] 
The species which I propose to describe is based on a specimen 
from a collection made along the south coast of New Guinea and at 
the Aru Islands by the late S. White, Esq., of South Australia. I 
propose to call it 
TEPHRAS WHITE, Sp. nov. 
All the upper surface dull brown washed with olive-yellow, tinged 
with brown on the head; brighter on the rump and upper tail- 
coverts, and on the outer margins of the webs of the wing- and tail- 
feathers ; the wings and tail brown above and below; axillaries and 
under wing-coverts whitish, inner margin of the webs of the quills 
towards the base whitish ; shafts of the wing and tail-feathers below 
white, above brown; all the under surface of the body, chin, margins 
of shoulders below, and the under tail-coverts citron-yellow, deeper 
