2. LIJIXOrAKDALUS. 27 



Mada>/. p. 79 (1861); lioch S,- E. Nnct. Hm, 1863, p. 173: A. 



Keict.'P. Z. S. 186;",, p. 837 ; Sharps, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 400 ; Haiti. 



Viiff. Maday. p. 340 (1877) : E. Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 772 

 Eulabearuis mad igii5cariensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 57, no. 10374 



(1871). 

 Eulabeornis bernieri, Gray, t. c. p. oG, no. 10373 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above olive-brovrn, the feathers hroarlly 

 centred with blaik ; scapulars like the back ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts rather more dusky olive than the back, and 

 streaked with black like the latter : winqr-coverts olive like the 

 back, with dusky blackish centres to the feathers ; greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primarv-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally 

 olive, the inner secondaries centred with black like the scapulars ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive; crown of head and hind 

 neck like the back, but slightly washed with vinaceous, the forehead 

 and sides of face, as well as the eyebrow, dark slaty grey : ear-coverts, 

 sides of neck, and under surface of body dull vinaceous, more or less 

 distinctly streaked with black centres to the feathers, becoming 

 larger and more pronounced on the sides of the breast : the throat 

 a little more ashy grey ; abdomen, vent, and lower flanks dusky olive- 

 brown, narrowly barred with white ; thighs dusky olive-brown ; 

 later il under tail-coverts white; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 olive-brown, with slight indications of white fringes ; quills below 

 bronzy brown, lighter along the inner edge : " bill rosy, the upper 

 mandible black along the ridge ; feet greyish brown : iris bright 

 scarlet" {A. Gram/idler). Total length 12 inches, culmen 2-5, 

 wing 4*4, tail 1-9, tarsus lo. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Shelley CoU. 



b. Ad. bk. Madagascar. Sharpe Cell. 



c. rf. Ad. ; e. Juv. sk. Madagascar. Seebohni Cdl. 

 /. Ad. sk. East of Antananarivo, >rad- Tweeddale Coll. 



agascar, July ( If. Dea>is 

 Voiran). 

 g. Ad.; h, i. Ankafana ( If '. D^'aws Ct>frrt?i). Tweeddale Coll. 



Pull. sk. 

 A:,/. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Old Coll. 



(Ti-pes of i2. poliocephalus. Gray.) 



2. LIMNOPARDALUS. 



lype. 



Lininopardalus, Cah. J.f. O. 18.56, p. 4:?8 L. ruaL-ulatus. 



Purdirallus, Bp. C. R. .\liii. p. 599 (1856) L. maculatus. 



Ortygooax, Heine in Heine tSj- Reichen. Nomencl. 



Mas. Hein. p. 321 (1890) L. rytirhynchus. 



Range. Confined to South America : Cuba. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast spotted and flanks barred with white; 

 back and wings streaked with white ; a 

 bright red spot at bas.' of lower mandible . tnaculatus, p. 28. 



