38 EALLIB^, 



Grallfs Brit. Mm. p. 115 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 593 (184G) : 

 Beichetib. Handh., Ftilic. tab. cecv. figs. 2467-68 (1852); Gould, 

 Hajidh. B. Austr. ii. p. 336 (1865j ; Hiiyel, Ibis, 1875, p. 392 

 (Auckland Isl.) ; Bidler, Tr. N. Zeal. hist. xi. p. 362 (1878) ; id. 

 B. N. Zeal. 2i)d ed. ii. p. 100 (18S8) ; North, Cat. Nests Sf Eqys 

 Austr. B. p. 329 (1889). 



Rallus lewini, Sirains. An. in Menaq. p. 336 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 iii. p. 593 (]846); Go>dd, B. Aukr. vi. pi. 77 (1848) ; Beicltenb. 

 Toy. Neuholl. p. 242 (1850). 



Lewinia brachypus, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1856). 



Lewinia pectoi-alis ()iec Gould), Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (185(i). 



Eulabeoruis brachypus. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 57, no. 10388 (1871). 



Hypotsenidia (Lewinia) biaclivpus, Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. 

 p. 21 (1888). 



Adult. General colour above warm olive-brown, thickly streaked 

 with black centres to the feathers ; the scapulars, lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts like the back, a few feathers having white 

 tips or bars ; lesser wing-coverts uniform olive-brown ; median and 

 greater coverts olive-brown, barred and tipped with white, with a 

 subterminal shade of black, some of tho long greater coverts almost 

 entirely black with narrow white bars ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts and quills nearly iniiform brown, externally olive-brown ; 

 the inner secondaries blackish, edged with olive-brown and barred 

 with white on the outer web ; tail-feathers like the back, black 

 with olive-brown edges ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck dull 

 vinous chestnut, streaked with black centres to the feathers ; lores 

 dusky ; a broad eyebrow of uniform vinous chestnut, extending to 

 the sides of the hind neck, and widening out towards the latter: 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, and lower sides of neck olive-brown ; 

 cheeks a little more ashy ; throat white ; fore neck and breast olive- 

 brown, inclining to ashy grey on the latter ; lower breast and 

 abdomen isabclline ; the sides of body and flanks black, barred with 

 white, or isabclline on the sides of the vent ; under tail-coverts 

 isabelline buff, with concealed black ba>es ; under wing-coverts 

 nearly uniform dusky blackish, washed with olive ; axillaries olive- 

 brown, with a few whitish bars ; quills below dusky brown, with 

 an olive shade : " bill broAvuish red : feet flesh-colour, becoming 

 darker about the toes ; iris hazel " (J. Gould). Total length 7'o 

 nches, culmen ] -2, wing 3"S5, tail 1'7, tarsus 1. 



Younr/. Similar to the adults but much duller on the upper 

 surface, the vinous colour of the head and neck being absent ; throat 

 whitish ; remainder of under surface dark ashy, the centre of the 

 breast whitish ; the sides of the body with a few black feathers 

 barred with white. 



Hah. Western and Southern Australia, north to the Wide Bay 

 district ; Tasmania ; Auckland Islands. 



a. Ad. St. South Port Island, Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. [C.l. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



c. d. Ad. ; e-y. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 

 1mm. sk. 



h. Ad. sk. Western Australia. Gould Coll. 



i, k. Ad. sk. S. Queensland [J. T. Cockerel!). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



