50 EALLID^. 



2. Eulabeornis poecilopterus. 



Rallina pceciloptera, Hnrtl. Ibis. 1860, p. 171 (Viti Levu) ; FinscJi Sc 

 Hartl. Faun. Centralpoh/n. p. lo6, tab. 12. tig;. 1, tab. iii. fijr. 4 (eg'^') 

 (1807); Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 438; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 155 

 (Rewa), p. ■^39:3 (Viti Levu); Eeichen. J. f. O. 1891. p. 127; 

 Wiglesiv. Abhandl. h. Zool. Miis. Dresden, no. vi. p. 00 (1891). 



Eulabeornis poecilopteru?, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 57, no. 10387 

 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above brown ; tbe scapulars like the 

 back ; lower back, rump, and uj)per tail-coverts also brown ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, but a little more rufescent ; greater coverts 

 chestnut, barred with rufous and blaclc ; bastard-wing feathers 

 blackish, externally washed with rufous brown and with distinct 

 bars of light chestnut ; primary-coverts uniform rufous brown ; 

 (]uills chestnut, with broad blackish ends and broadly barred with 

 blackish on the inner web and chequei'ed with black and rufous bars 

 on the outer web ; the inner secondaries like the back ; tail-feathers 

 reddish brown, blackish in the centre : head ruddy brown from the 

 centre of the crown to the hind neck; forehead dull slaty grey, as 

 also the lores ; sides of face and ear-coverts, the sides of the hinder 

 crown, and the entire cheeks and sides of neck slaty grey ; chin and 

 throat white, the latter washed with slaty grey ; the rest of the 

 under surface, from the fore neck downwards, darker slaty grey : 

 sides of body and flanks blackish, as also the under tail-coverts ; 

 thighs dark slate-colour ; the shafts of the breast-feathers whitish ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries black, barred with white ; under 

 surface of quills rufous, barred with black : " bill orange and 

 yellow; feet yellow: iris light brown" (E, L. Latjard). Total 

 length 13 inches, culmen I'S, wing QS, tail 3'1, tarsus '2-bo, middle 

 toe and claw 2'4, 



Adult femcde. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 14 inches, culmen 1'8, wing 6-4, tail 2-6, tarsus 2-25, middle toe 

 and claw 2- 15. 



I/ab. Fiji Islands : Ovalau and Viti Levu. 



a. Ad. St. Fiji Islands. Purcba-ed. 



b, c. cJ 5 ad. sk. Korotumbi, Viti Levu, Nov. 2 Tweeddale Coll. 



(E. L. Luyard). 

 d. § ad. sk. Ovalau, Jan. 10 (E. L. Luijavd). Tweeddale Co]l. 



3. Eulabeornis woodfordi. (Plate VII.) 



Eallina woodfordi, Oc/ilvie Grant, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ((>) iv. 

 p. 320 (1889) ; Sa/iad. Af,g. Oni. Papuasiu, iii. p. 196 yimi). 



Immature (type of species). General colour above dark chocolate- 

 brown, the groundwork of the feathers being black ; wings browner 

 than the back ; bastard-wing black, with white spots or bars on the 

 inner web ; quills black, externally chocolate-brown, with white 

 spots on the inner web of the latter, decreasing in number on the 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers black, externally chocolate-brown ; head 



