60 Aoes. 
AVES. 
Porpkyrula chloronotuSj Blyth, = Gallinula alleni, Thomps., juv. ; 
A. O. Hume, Str. Feath. vii. p. 45G. 
Forzana moluccana, Wall. : synonymy given, showing that Amaurornis 
is identical as a genus with, and has priority over Erythra ; T. Salvadori, 
Atti Acc, Tor. xiv. p. 944. 
Rallus: on a species denominated 11. gularis^ var. aldahrana, found in 
the Island of Aldabra [Comoro Islands, S.E. Africa] ; A. Gunther, Ann. 
N. H. (5) iii. pp. 1G4-168. F. macquariensis, sp. n., F. W. Hutton, Ibis, 
1879, p. 454, Macquarie Island. 
Zapornia watersi, sp. u., E. Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 772, figured 
pi. Ixi., S.E. Betsileo, Madagascar. 
PARRIDil]. 
Parra novm-guin\e\ie^ sp. n., E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. 
p. 298, Port Moresby, New Guinea (distinguished from P. gallinacea, 
Temm.). 
ScOLOPACIDAi:. 
Machetes pugnax figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxiii. & Ixxiv. 
Scolopax rusticula, not S. rusticola, is the correct orthography ; II. T. 
Wharton, Ibis, 1879, p. 453. S. rusticula in Belgium and N. Kanara, J. S. 
Laird (p. 470) ; and at Tanna, J. D. Inverarity (p. 525) : Str. Feath. vii. 
S. gallinula : young in down described and figured ; A. Marchaud, R. Z. 
(3) vi. p. 310, pi. xiii. 
Symphemia semipalmata : young in down described and figured ; id. 
tom. cit. p. 310, pi. X. 
Tringa suh-arquata. Obtained in New England ; R. Deane, Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, iv. p. 124. Supposed discovery of its eggs by L. Kumlien in 
North Greenland in 1878 ; T. M. BreAver, tom. cit. p. 190, & Ibis, 1879, 
p. 375 ; also L. Kumlien, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 15, p. 87. Identifica- 
tion doubted, as the bird had never been found there; H. W. Feilden, 
Ibis, 1879, p. 486. [From O. Finsch’s remarks in Reise n. W. Sibirien, 
p. 437, & Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxix. p. 251 ; it appears that his statement as 
to finding of the young {cf. Zool. Rec. xiv. Aves, p. 55) was an error, 
and the downy stage is consequently still unknown.] 
Numenius borealis obtained in Aberdeenshire ; G. Sim, Scot. Nat. 1879, 
p. 36. 
Oharadriid;b. 
JEJgialites hiaticula obtained in the Goorgaon District, India ; A. O. 
Hume, Str. Feath. viii. pp. 197-201. 
Charadrius fulvus obtained near Malaga; L. H. Irby, Ibis, 1879, p. 345. 
Cursorius gcdlicus obtained in the Modenese ; L. Picaglia, Ann. Soc, 
Mod. xiii. (2) p. 130. 
Dromas ardeola : on its nidification ; A. O. Hume, Str. Feath. viii. 
p. 381. [A letter here quoted from Capt. E. A. Butler shows that this 
species deposits its eggs in holes in the sandhills of the islands in the 
