21. PORZANOIDEA TABUENSIS:- SUB-SPEC. A.M.N.H. has NONE (0) Wants 8 Exchange value VERY GOOD Total Permits No. 12 cNo. for Nommea 2 Remarks ONE RED TICK. 20/5/39. Natives know this species but say it is scare. WAILU, 13/6/39. Saw a bird disappear into clump of scrub which may have been the species. Sight very short finite - may well have been a rat. 19/6/39. One shot in low bush of lantana fully 2 ft above the ground. on grass flats (subject to flooding) covered with short grass + clumps of low 3x4 ft lantana by low bushes, dense mixed with flood rubbish, stick etc. The call is absolutely unlike that of this species in either the other Hebrides or the Loyalty Islands. I mistook this call on the 17th for that of Tabnit or for a Terke Sandpiper or some such species. This specimen was not seen but a shot at the bush from which it had been calling was successful. Strangely it was not on the ground. This probably an imm. which has lost its talents as its calls were regular & constant. It does not appear as brown on the back as usual.