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Nesopelia galapagoensis. 2 ? . Hood Island. One with 

 the tail partially greyish white ; one with the tail 

 partially greyish white and the outer primaries white. 



CEstrelata cooki. (J. Solomon Island, off Stewart's 

 Island, New Zealand. Perfect albino, even the bill and 

 feet being white. 



Thinornis NoViE-ZEALANDLa:. Chatham Islands (Palmer 

 coll.). Perfect albino. 



HjEMatopus unicolor. Bradshaw I., New Zealand. Pied 

 above and below. 



Glareola pratincola. Sarepta. All the dark portions of 

 the plumage brownish cream - colour, with brown 

 markings ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale greyish 

 brown. 



Himantoptjs melas. New Zealand. Dirty white, with a 

 few black feathers on the upper surface. 



Pavoncella pugnax. ? . Tunis. Head, neck, and under 

 surface white ; secondaries of right wing partially 

 white. 



Gallinago gallinago. Four dark-brown varieties, more 

 or less typical " Sabine's Snipes." (England.) 



1. Eight outer primaries and primary-coverts on left 

 wing and anterior half of toes white. 



3. Showing pale buffy-browu aberrations of different 

 shades. 



1. Very light sandy buff above, with a few white and 

 some black feathers in beautiful contrast. 



Scolopax rusticola. $ . Russia. Third to seventh primary 

 and one of the wing-coverts on the left wing ; first to 

 fourth and seventh to eighth quills and the majority of 

 the primary-coverts on the right wing, white. 



$ . (Hamburg Market.) Rather pale above and on 

 the breast. 



? . (Leadenhall Market.) Above rufous buff, with 



