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coverts broadly, bordered terminally with white; greater coverts 

 widely tipped with white, forming a conspicuous bar across the 

 wing; three or four of the inner secondaries chiefly white, the 

 others, also the inner primaries, narrowly skirted and tipped 

 with white. Rump, upper tail-coverts, and middle tail-feathers, 

 uniform fuliginous-dusky, the remaining lectrices paler, or dull 

 cinereous. A conspicuous whitish superciliary stripe, extending 

 back to the nape, and confluent with the dull whitish of the 

 under side of the head, thus posteriorly bounding a large sooty- 

 brown auricular area; anterior portion of the lores, with the 

 forehead, dull smoky-grayish; neck, jugulum, and breast dirty 

 whitish (sometimes soiled with dingy buff), and clouded or 

 spotted with dull slate, sooty plumbeous, or dusky black, this 

 sometimes forming a large patch on each side of the breast; re- 

 maining lower parts pure white, the sides with chain-like series 

 of brownish slaty spots mixed with streaks, the crissum streaked 

 with dusky ; lining of the wing pure white, the border brownish 

 gray. Bill, legs, and feet brownish black in the dried skin; 

 iris brown. 



Wing 4,50-5,15 (4,86) inches; culmen 0,98—1,25 (1,13); 

 tarsus 0,88-1,00 (0,95); middle toe 0,78—0,90 (0,86) (Extreme 

 and average measurements of 14 adults). 



Hab.: Aleutian Islands and coast of Alaska, north to St. 

 Michael's. — 



FAM. BALLID^. 



Hypotaenidia saturata. 



Salvadori, M. S., Ibis 1880, p. 310. 



Similis H. celebensi, sed gutture nigro, rostro longiore et 

 fortiore, et corporis crassitie majore diversa. Long, tot. 12,5, 

 al. 6, caud. 2, tars. 2,3. 



Hab.: Ins. Salawatti et Papua borealis. 



Pennula Millei. 



Dole, List of Birds of the Havaiian Islands (Hawaiian 

 Annuall879). 



6,50 inches long. Bill 0,75 inches long, black, straight, 

 sides compressed, curved at tip. Tail not visible. Wings rudi- 

 mentary, hidden in the long, loose, hairy feathers. Plumage 

 dark dull brown, ashy under the throat; feathers loose, hairy, 

 long. Lower part of tibia naked. Legs long, set far back. 

 Nearly extinct. 



Hab.: Uplands of Hawaii. 



Porzana oenops. 



Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, II, p. 161. 



Supra olivaceo-fusca, dorso postico et cauda nigricante 

 brunneo indutis; fronte, capitis cervicis et pectoris lateribus 

 rubro-castaneis; subtus gastraeo toto albo, hypochondriis nigro 



