24 BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP, 



autumn and winter have white on the abdomen and under wing coverts. Length about 



14.00, wing 6.75, tail 1.50, culmen and shield 2.00, tarsus 2.25-2.50, toe 3.00, hind lot 



1.25. Hab. Hawaiian Islands. 

 PI. XXIV., 9745. 41. G. sandvicen'sis Streets. Hawaiian Gallinule, Alae. 



Genus PORPHY'RIO Brisson. 



Thighs purplish brown ; inner secondaries black (with no distinct patch of blue 

 on the throat) ; under surface uniform bluish except the under tail coverts which are 

 white ; general color of back black ; primaries black ; frontal plate, bill, legs and feet 

 red. Length 17.25, wing 14.50, tail 4.00, culmen and shield 2.70, tarsus 3.35, toe 4.00. 

 Hab. Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea. Oahu; introduced. 



43. P. melano'tus Newt. Alae awi. 



Gknt.s FUXICA LfNx^u.s. 



General color above and below slaty grey; under tail coverts black, the lateral ones 

 white with the inner half of the feather black ; outer secondaries broadly tipped with 

 white, one specimen with under parts suffused with whitish, and flank stripes wanting in 

 all the specimens in the colledlion; quills blackish brown; back browner. Length 

 16.25, 15-60, 16.25; wing 7.00, do., do.; tail 2.10, 2.20, 2.30; culmen including shield 

 2.25, 2.05, 2.10; tarsus 2.25, 2.15, 2.20; toe 3.25, do., do. Hab. Hawaiian Islands. 

 PI. XXIV., 9432. 43. F. alai Peale. Hawaiian Coot,^* Alae keokeo. 



Order LIMICOL^.-Shore Birds. 



Families. 



a. Naked portion of the thigh much more than the length of the middle toe; 

 tarsus more than twice the length of the middle toe ; nasal groove not extending be- 

 yond half the length of culmen (Page 26.) Recurviros'tridae. 



aa. Naked portion of thigh less than the length of middle toe ; tarsus less than 

 twice the length of the middle toe. 



b. Toes with distindlly scalloped web, and with a serration along the edge 



of the planta-tarsi as in the grebes (Page 25.) Phalaropo'didse. 



bb. Toes without scalloped webs and no serrated edge to the planta-tarsi; 

 nasal groove extending along the greater part of the upper mandible. 



C. Front of tarsus covered with a continuous row of transverse scutulse. 

 d. Bill slender ; exposed culmen longer than middle toe without 

 the claw ; end of bill with a more or less rounded or sometimes expanded tip. 



(Page 26.) Scolopag'id», 



=^4 A partial albino (Museum No. 8708) was colle<5led on Maui tiv Mr. G. P. wilder, November 4 1899 



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