

Latham's ' Dusky Eail ' was in the Leverian Museum, but unfortunately appears to 

 have been also lost. 



" Schlegel's ' Crex sandwichensis ' is only known from the specimen in the Leyden 

 Museum and is no doubt one of the rarest of birds, being most certainly not the same 

 as ' Eallus sandwichensis ' or ' Hallus obscurus ' of Gmelin ; it must therefore be 

 renamed. I have the pleasure to name it after Mr. Scott B. Wilson l , to whom 

 science is so highly indebted, and whom we have to thank for figuring this rare type 

 through the skill of Mr. Frohawk. 



" Although not referable at present to the Avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands, and 

 probably one of the species ' nearly or quite extinct,' perhaps we still may hope for 

 the rediscovery of Pennula wilsoni in one of the neighbouring small islands as yet 

 unsatisfactorily explored." 



" Leyden Museum, February 1898." 



1 "This gentleman, in company of the artist, came over from England only for describing and figuring the 

 bird in question." 



