346 ON THE BIRDS OF THE SULA ISLANDS. [DcC. 9» 



the bill ; above olive-brown, head more dusky ; beneath black ; the 

 breast, belly, and under tail-coverts narrowly white-banded; the 

 vent rufous-tinged ; quills obscurely banded with rufous-white and 

 black ; bill black ; feet olive ; iris red (in R. celebensis it is deep 

 brown). 



Total length 11 inches ; wing 6| inches. 



Hab. Sula Islands. 



Rallina minahasa. 



Obscure rufo-olivacea ; capite, collo pectoreque rufis ; abdomine 

 crissoque nigris, albo fasciatis ; rostro nigro, subtus virideS' 

 cente ; pedibus nigris. 



Head, neck, and breast entirely rufous, paler on the chin and 

 upper part of the throat ; back, wings, and tail dark olive-brown ; 

 belly and under tail-coverts black, with numerous white transverse 

 bands somewhat irregularly placed ; under wing-coverts black, with 

 white spots, and several of the quills with white spots or bands 

 towards the base ; these are more conspicuous in the young bird, in 

 which also the white bands on the under surface are broader ; bill 

 black, the basal portion beneath green ; feet black ; iris orange-red. 



Total length 10 inches ; wing 5 inches. 



Hab. Sula Islands and N. Celebes (Minahasa). 



Remarhs. — This species is near R. tricolor, G. R. Gray ; but the 

 rufous colour does not extend so far on the back, and the colours of 

 the back and abdomen are diflferent. It is also smaller in all its 

 parts. 



ESACUS MAGNIROSTRIS. 



Charadrius magnirostriSy Lath. 



CEdicnemus magniro&tris, Temm. PI. Col. 387. 



Hab. Sula Islands, Celebes, New Guinea. 



NUMKNIUS UROPYGIALIS. 



Numenius uropygialis, Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. A3. 



N. minor, Miill. 1 



Hab. Sula Islands, the Moluccas, and New Guinea. 



Egretta syrmatophora. 



Herodias syrmatophora, Gould, B. Austr. vi. t. 56. 

 Hab. Sula Islands and Moluccas. 



Egretta nigrirostris. 



Ardea nigrirostris, J. Gray, Zool. Misc. 1838 ; 111. Ind. Zool. ii. 

 t. 49. f. 2. 

 Hab. Sula Islands and Timor. 



