fulIcarI® — limicoi®. 
Aves 89 
Porphyrio melanotus and var. figured ; id. t. c. pi. xxxi. 
Porzana, cf. supra. P. exilis vagans , n. subsp., Segovia R., Honduras ; 
R. Ridoway, P. U. S. Nat. Mils. 1887, p. 595. P. spiloptera [cf. Zool. 
Rec. xiv, Aves, p. 54], from Buenos Ayres, = Ballus salinasi, of Philippi, 
from Ohili ; Edd. [H. Burmeister], Ibis, 1888, p. 285. [The nest and 
eggs have now been obtained.] 
RalJus longirostris scotti, n. subsp., West Coast of Florida, I?. 1. 
caribbeeus , new to mainland of America ; G. B. Sennett, Auk, 1888, 
pp. 305, 306, & 319. R. pliilippensis figured ; W. L. Btjller. Birds New 
Zealand, pi. xxxiii. 
Heliornithtd®. 
Ileliornis senegalensis — does II. petersi differ P, notes on the 2 species ; 
J. Buttikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. x [1888], pp. 103-105. 
ALECTORIDES. 
Gruid®. 
Fossil remains (new species), see Portis, A. 
PSOPHIID®. 
The family, sub voce “ Trumpeter A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, 
vol. xxiii. 
Psophia leucoptera figured ; id. ibid. 
Otidida:. 
Right scapula of a species of uncertain genus, from Post-tertiary 
deposits of Queensland ; C. W. de Vis, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. iii [1888], 
pp. 1288-1290, pi. xxxv, fig. 12. 
Lophotis gindiana [ $ $ ], further notes ; T. Salvadori, Ann. Mus. 
Genov, xxvi, pp. 543 & 544. 
Otis dybowskii , <j> described for first time ; L. Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 
1888, p. 456. 
LIMICOLiE. 
CEdicnemid.®. 
CEdicnemus longipes , n. sp. [= (E. grallarius ) pt.], N;-W* Australia \ 
E. P. Ramsay, Tab. List Austral. Birds, p. 35. 
