. The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands : with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions . about 6£ inches, culmen 07 to 079, height of bill at base 05 to0-51, wing 3-3 to 34, tail 26, tarsus 1-05 (given 2-05 by mistake in the originaldescription, I. c). The female does not differ from the male. The Plate represents a male and a female. Hab. Palmer found this bird very common on Laysan Island, but nowhere else. He sentme a fair series, but no specimens in immature plumage. This is the second species of the genus Telespyza established by Scott B. Wilson,
. The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands : with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions . about 6£ inches, culmen 07 to 079, height of bill at base 05 to0-51, wing 3-3 to 34, tail 26, tarsus 1-05 (given 2-05 by mistake in the originaldescription, I. c). The female does not differ from the male. The Plate represents a male and a female. Hab. Palmer found this bird very common on Laysan Island, but nowhere else. He sentme a fair series, but no specimens in immature plumage. This is the second species of the genus Telespyza established by Scott B. Wilson, Ibis,1890, p. 311, for his Telespyza cantans. The name, however, should be spelt Telespiza, asit is derived from onita. It is very curious that two species, Telespiza cantans and T. flavissima, should occur onone small island like Laysan. But although one is at first inclined to consider them to beyoung and old, or male and female, they are two distinct species, as I have males and femalesof both, shot at the same time, and no intermediate-coloured specimens. Besides, T. flavissimahas a stronger bill and is a little AVIFAUNA OF LAYS AX. 9 5. PORZANULA PALMERI, Froh. LAYS AX CRAKE. Porzanula palmeri, Frohawk, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1892, ix. p. palmeri, Hartl. Abh. naturw. Ver. Brcm. xii. p. 399 (1892). Adult male. Top of the head and entire upper surface with tail pale sandy brown; feathersslate-coloured and whitish along the shaft at base, and with large deep blackish-browncentral patches on the exposed parts; the feathers of the back are mostly mottled withwhite, hut in some specimens the white is scarcely perceptible; a line over the eye,sides of the head and neck, chin, throat, breast, and abdomen pale slaty grey to ashy;feathers on the sides of the body of the colour of the upper surface, each with severalwhite spots, faintly outlined with black. Wings very small and rounded, first primaryabout a third of an inch shorter than the second, second, third
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