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enormously hooked bill, much resembling in shape that of a 

 Nestor Parrot, the maxilla being nearly t'^ice the length of 

 the mandible. In Psittacirostra, on the other hand, the 

 bills of the sexes are the same. 



PsEUDONESTOR XANTHOPHRYS, Sp. UOV. 



Adult male. Top of head and whole upper surface bright 

 olive-green. Lores and superciliary stripe golden yellow. 

 Tliroat and breast dull yellow, with an olive tinge, which 

 is strongly pronounced on the flanks ; under tail-coverts 

 yellow, under wing-coverts yellowish white. Wings and 

 tail blackish brown, each feather bordered with olive-green. 

 Wing 3 inches, tail 1-9, culmen 1*1, lower mandible 0*5, 

 tarsus 0'9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but much 

 more grey on the back and the abdomen much more tinged 

 with olive. Wing 2*6 to 2*7 inches, tail 1*6, culmen 0'G5, 

 lower mandible 0'4, tarsus 0'8. 



" Iris dark hazel ; upper mandible dark grey, basal half 

 paler ; feet slate-colour, soles orange " (Palmer) . 



Hab. Island of Mauai, Sandwich Islands. 



]Mr. Hartert also exhibited some interesting specimens of 

 birds fi'om the Sandwich Islands and Laysan : — Phodacanthis 

 palmeri and P. flavicej).^, Rotbsch., fi-om Hawaii; Telespiza 

 cantans, Wilson, and T. flavissima, Rotbsch., from Laysan ; 

 Cfdoridnps kona, Wilson, from Hawaii ; Loxioides bailhui, 

 Oust., from Hawaii, 



A communication from Dr. Bowdler Sharpe referred to 

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

 out that hitherto the Burmese Podica per sonata had been 

 considered to be congeneric with Podica senegalejisis of 

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

 with the American Heliornis fuUca, which had the same- 

 shaped bill and wings and the same soft tail, very different 

 from the stiff-ril)bed rectrices of P. senegalensis. The 

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



