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whose presence I was made aware by the noisy cries and behaviour of the parent birds, 

 who swept to and fro quite near me in their anxiety. I heard that it was fairly 

 abundant at some lagoons near Kekaha on Kauai, and as Dr. Finsch observed it on 

 Maui 1 , it is doubtless distributed throughout the entire group, as might have been 

 expected. 



" Diagnosis. — Similar to Himantopus mexicanus (Mull.), from North America, but 

 with the black of the head extending further down on the forehead and occupying the 

 proximal half of the lores ; black on neck extending to the sides and the front of the 

 neck, except the middle line, mottled with black, the feathers being narrowly 

 tipped with black ; tail-feathers broadly and abruptly tipped with greenish black, 

 nearly the entire outer web of the outer pair being of the same colour ; tail-feathers, 

 with the outer webs, light smoky gray, and the inner ones white, except the middle 

 pair, which has both webs light smoky gray ; bill, tarsus, and tail considerably longer 

 than in H. mexicanus. 



"Dimensions of type specimen. — Wing 232 mm., tail-feathers 87 mm., exposed 

 culmen 75 mm. ; tarsus 121 mm., middle toe with claw, 47 mm." 



1 Dr. 0. Finsch (' Ibis,' 1880, p. 79) says : — " Here [at the lagoon of "Kahalui on Maui] I also observed 

 Actitis incana, a Charadrius (like 0. Maticula), a Himantopus, -which Mr. Dole designates H. candidus, but 

 which seems to be identical with the American species, and a Snipe like our Gallinago scohjoacina." 



