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[Vol. X. 
OcYDROMUs EARLi. 1. Nclson^ New Zealand. Under sur- 
face white^ with a large patch of feathers in the middle 
of the chest and some feathers on the sides of tlie 
abdomen brown. Primaries white. 
1. Westport, New Zealand. Under surface white, 
with three feathers on tbe chest and some on the 
abdomen brown ; forehead and crown with some white 
feathers ; pi'imaries white. 
1. Nelson West, New Zealand. Like the former 
specimen, but with a large patcli in the middle of the 
chest brown. 
OcYDROMUS AUSTRALIS. ? . Otago. Perfect albino. 
Rallus aquaticus. England. Two outer primaries on left, 
one on right wing, under and lesser upper wing-coverts, 
a few feathers on the nape, middle of forc-neck, nearly 
the whole abdomen, and under tail-coverts, white. 
Tetrao tetrix. ? . Kasan. Underside from the fore-neck 
to the tail-coverts white, with some blackish markings ; 
wing-coverts with very broad white edgings. 
$ (from an old collection). White, only head and 
neck with brown markings ; rectrices pale brown 
towards base, and some of the body-feathers with faint 
brown shades. 
$ . Oloneck, Russia. Underside pied. 
Lophophorus refulgens. 2. With the otherwise reddish- 
coppery hind-neck and the shining golden-green mantle 
of a purple-violet colour — these being the birds called 
“ Lophophorus hnpeyanus var. mantoui ” by Oustalet. 
1. With about half the plumage white — the white 
feathers being spread all over the bird, the tail excepted. 
1. With the hind-neck and mantle velvety black with 
a metallic green lustre ; the white of the lower back 
replaced by blue-black feathers ; the tail black, with 
golden-green edges ; the wing-coverts darker than usual 
and not so glossy. (This is the “ black Monaul ” 
mentioned in Bull. B. O. Club, viii. p. xliii.) 
