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adult female, 18th of August, male partly moulting, 22nd of August, young female, 

 21st of August; Limbotto, adult male of small dimensions, 31st of August, female 

 moulted, 29th of August ; Gorontalo, adult female, 30th of April ; Wawou, very 

 young male, 27th of August (Von Rosenberg) ; Gorontalo, young female, 29th of June 

 (Forsten); Port Essington, Eastern Australia (Gould) ; Queensland (mus. nostr.). 



Temminck (I. c.) states that this is a bird of passage at Amboyna. Mr. Gould (Hand- 

 book, Austr. ii. p. 331, where an interesting account of its habits is given) mentions 

 that it is a native of New Guinea. No authority is quoted ; and I can find no con- 

 firmation of the statement. Professor Schlegel confines its range to Celebes and 

 Australia. It breeds in Eastern Australia (Gould, I. c.) ; but unfortunately the month 

 is not stated. 



I cannot follow Professor Schlegel (I. c.) in referring this species to P. cristata, 

 Vieill. (N. D. xvi. p. 430, ex Ceylon). Vieillot's title was given to Le Grand Jacana 

 verd a crSte of Temminck (Cat. Syst. Cabinet d'Ornith. p. 265. no. 403, 1807), whose 

 description Vieillot reproduces almost word for word. Temminck's Jacana, as has 

 already been shown by Dr. Hartlaub (Syst. Index, in Jard. Contrib. Ornith. 1849), is 

 clearly Parra indica, Lath. (Ind. Orn. ii. p. 765, 1790). Wagler (Isis, 1832, p. 280) 

 gives both P. cristata and P. gallinacea as the types of his genus Hydralector. But the 

 generic character, " Ein aufrecht stehender Fleischkamm am Kopfe," evidently indi- 

 cates P- gallinacea as the generic type. 



My Macassar example, an adult, only differs from a Menado individual by being much 

 smaller. Wing 4f against 5f. All the other dimensions proportionally less; it is 

 therefore probably a male. A Queensland example, a young bird, crown and nape 

 rich rufous intermixed with black, only differs in having a much stouter bill. 



Gallinula, Brisson. 

 148. Gallinula fkontata, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 35, "Bouru." 

 Gallinula hcematopus, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 44, " Celebes." 



Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.); Ayer-pannas, 12th of August, adult male, 17th of 

 August, adult female, 26th of August, female, 19th of August, young, one day old; 

 Panybie, 9th of September, female of the year; Limbotto, 4th of September, female 

 of the year, 31st of August, male and female of the year, 28th of August, female ( Von 

 Bosenberg) ; Amboyna (Mus. Lugd.) ; Bouru (type). 



Professor Schlegel, in his admirable list of the birds of the Leyden Museum, the 

 most perfect and practically useful work of its kind ever published, identifies the 

 Celebean bird with that described by Mr. Wallace from Bouru. Temminck's MS. 

 title of hcematopus had never been hitherto used, except by Bonaparte (Comptes Bend, 

 xliii. p. 600, 1856), and then only as a synonym of the nearly allied G. tenebrosa, Gould 

 (P. Z. S. 1846, p. 20). I have therefore retained Mr. Wallace's title for the species. 



