52 •RkLLIBM. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being almost entirely black, 

 with a shade of chocolate-brown on the back and sides of neck, the 

 under surface being somewhat more slaty black ; head and throat 

 more slaty grey, with a patch of orange-brown on the fore neck : 

 " bill and legs dark brown ; iris crimson " {E. L. Layiird). 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



a. cT ad. ; h. J ad. sk. New Caledonia. M. Verreaiix. 



c. 5juv.sk. Boulai, New Calpdonia, Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 



16 {E. L. Ltnjard). 



7. GYMNOCREX. 



Type. 



Gymnocrex, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Geuov. vii. p. 078 



(1875) G. vosenbergi. 



Schizoptila, Briiffgem. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 



V. p. 94 (1876) G. rosenbergi. 



Bdiige. Celebes, Molucca Islands (Morotai, Halmahera), Mysol. 

 Aru Islands, Southern New Guinea, Solomon Islands. ? New 

 Ireland. 



1. Gymnocrex rosenbergi. 



IJallina rosenbergii. Schl. N. T. D. iii. p. 212 (1806 : Kema, Celebes) : 



id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Kalli, Index, p. 78. 

 Eulabeornis rosenbergii, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 57, no. 1038J 



(1871;. 

 Rallina (?) rosenbergii, Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 96 (1872). 

 Gymnocrex rosenbergii, Salvad. Atm. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 678 (1876 : 



Menado). 

 Schizoptila rosenbergii, Br'uqqem. Abhandl. nal. Ter. Bremen, v. p. 94 



(1876). 



Adult. Lores, region round the eye, and a large space behind the 

 latter bare ; sides of head and neck, as well as the lower parts, 

 greyish black : tail, with the rump and upper tail-coverts, deeper 

 black ; wings, back, mantle, and upper part of neck dark reddish 

 brown and purplish, inclining to brownish buff on the larger quills ; 

 upper part of head blackish ; lower wing-coverts blackish, with a 

 large whitish patch at the end of each feather : " bill and bare skin 

 round the eye pale greenish yellow ; feet greenish grey ; iris brownish 

 red" {Von Rosenberg). Total length 6-9 inches, tail 3-1, bill from 

 gape 2-1, tarsus 2*8. (Schlegd.) 



Hub. Celebes. 



2. Gymnocrex plumbeiventris. 



Rallus plumbeiventris Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, pp. 432, 438: Fiiisc/,, 



Neu-Guinea, p. 180 (1865), 

 Eallina plumbeiventris, Sehl. Miis. Pai/s-Bas, Tfalli. pp. 17, 78 



(1865) ; id. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 'iii. p. 849 (186(S) ; Gray, 



Hund-l. B. iii. p. 58, no. 10402 (1871) ; Shari^e, Journ. Linn. Sac. 



xiii. p. 505 (1877). 

 Rallus hueveni, Rosenb. MSS. ; Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierh-. iii. 



