CompendiuQi der neu beschriebenen Arten und Gattungen. 421 



Wing 5 inches (French measure) and 3 lines. Tail 2 i. 4 L 

 Tarse 42 i. MiddJe toe without nail 22 1. Bill 1 inch. 



Hab.: New Guinea. 



Porphyr io ellioti. 



T. Salvador!, Atti K. Accad. Sc. Torino Vol. XIV. (Giugno 

 1879) p. 1168. 



Occipite, lateribus capitis et cervice summa nigris; iateribus 

 colli, cervice ima, pectore et lateribus saturate coeruleis; genis 

 inferne, collo antico, gutture, humeris et subalaribus coeruleo-vire- 

 scentibus ; abdomine irao nigro ; crisso albo ; tibiis nigris, coeruleo- 

 tinctis; dorso, uropygio, supracaudalibus et aus fusco-nigris, paullum 

 virescentibus; remigibus primariis, earumque tectricibus exterius 

 conspicue coeruleo-marginatis ; cauda fusco-nigra; rostro, pedibus 

 et iride rubris. 



Long. c. 0,400; ala 0,235; caud. 0,080; tars. 0,084; rostri a 

 marg. post. clypei 0,070 M. 



Hab. : Isole deirAmrairagliato. 



Mall US macquariensis. 



Hutton, Ibis 1879. p. 455. 



(Statt einer kurzen Diagnose (Linne bestimmte für eine solche 

 bekanntlich drei Zeilen!) eine seitenlange Beschreibung! „Per- 

 haps the new species approaches Rallus TJiejfenbachi more tlian other 

 species; but it is a smaller bird witb a longer wing, and the dif- 

 ferences in plumage are considerable." Die peinliche Wiedergabe 

 jeder Feder kann hier wegen des beschränkten Baumes, der uns 

 zur Verfügung steht, nicht abgedruckt werden ! Ersetzt auch kaum 

 eine kurze präcise Diagnose. Hab. Macquarie Island. H. S.) 



ARDEIDAE. 



Ardea Lansber gel. 



H. Schlegel, Not. Boy. ZooL Mus. Leyden. No. 2. 1879. 

 p. 113. 



The plumage presents properly but two colors, viz. white and 

 blackish slate-color. The white however strougly inclines to asliy 

 gray on the front, the crown, the sides of the head and the basal 

 part of the feathers of the throat. The dark color occupies the 

 mantle, the whole back, the tail with its upper and under coverts, 

 the feathers of the thighs, the sides of the body and the whole 

 underside of the wings, which however are lined with white on 

 their external margin. The bill is of a yellowish color and the 

 feet appear to have been of this same color. 



Wing seven inches. Bill from front twenty six to thirty lines. 

 Tarse thirty two to thirty five lines. Middle toe without nail twenty- 

 three lines. 



Hab.: Macassar (S. Celebes). 



MEGAPODIIDAE. 



Megapodius Lay ardi. 



Canon Tristram, Ibis 1879. p. 194. 



M. supra et infra fuliginoso-niger, tergo imo et supracauda- 



