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Ocydromus-earlt. 1. Nelson, New Zealand. Under sur- 

 face white, with a large patch of feathers in the middle 

 of the chest and some feathers on the sides of the 

 abdomen brown. Primaries white. 



1. Westport, New Zealand. Under surface white, 

 with three feathers on the chest and some on the 

 abdomen brown ; forehead and crown with some white 

 feathers; primaries white. 



1. Nelson West, New Zealand. Like the former 

 specimen, but with a large patch in the middle of the 

 chest brown. 



Ocydromus australis. ? . Otago. Perfect albino. 



Rallus aquaticus. England. Two outer primaries on left, 

 one on right wing, under and lesser upper wing-coverts, 

 a few feathers on the nape, middle of fore-neck, nearly 

 the whole abdomen, and under tail-coverts, white. 



Tetrao tetrix. ?. Kasan. Underside from the fore-neck 

 to the tail-coverts white, with some blackish markings ; 

 wing-coverts with very broad white edgings. 



? (from an old collection). White, only head and 

 neck with brown markings ; rectrices pale brown 

 towards base, and some of the body-feathers with faint 

 brown shades. 



? . Oloneck, Russia. Underside pied. 



Lophophorus refulgens. 2. With the otherwise reddish- 

 coppery hind-neck and the shining golden-green mantle 

 of a purple-violet colour — these being the birds called 

 " Lophophorus impeyanus var. mantoui " by Oustalet. 



1. With about half the plumage white — the white 

 feathers being spread all over the bird, the tail excepted. 



1. With the hind-neck and mantle velvety black with 

 a metallic green lustre ; the white of the lower back 

 replaced by blue-black feathers ; the tail black, with 

 golden-green edges ; the wing-coverts darker than usual 

 and not so glossy. (This is the " black Monaul " 

 mentioned in Bull. B. O. Club, viii. p. xliii.) 



