14. ERrrUKoMACIllS. 1.;. III.MVNIOKXIS. GO 



14. ERYTHROMACHUS. 



■Type. 

 Ervthromachus, Milne-Edicarda, Ann. Svi. Xat. (o) xix. 



art. 3, p. tJ (1S74) E. leguati. 



liuiKje. Formerly living in the islaiul of Itodriguez. 



1. Erythromachus leguati. 



Krythromaclms leguati, Mibw-F.dwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (o) xi\-. 



art. ;j, p. G, pis. xi., xii. (1874j. 

 Aphaiiapteryx leguati, Gimther ^- E. Xewt. I'/iil. Trans, vol. 1(J8. 



pp. -i'-ii-'&J, pi. xiiii. (I87yj. 



J/af). Rodriguez ; now extinct. 



\'arious bones. Rodriguez (//. //. .Slater). Transit of Venus 



Exped. 



15. HIMANTORNIS. 



Type. 

 Iliniantoruis, Schl. Mas. I'ays-Bas, lialli, p. 2<S 

 (l*^«-j) 11. hamatopus. 



llatHje. West Africa, from Liberia to the Gaboon. 

 1. Himantornis haematopus. 



Ilimantornis h.-ematopus, Ilartl. J.f. 0. iii. p. 3-57 (18.5o, e.v Temm. 



MSS. in Mas. Lwjd.)\ id. Orn. W.-Afr. p. i'4l' (18-57: Gold 



Coast) ; Cass. Froc. F/ii/ad. Acad. 18-5!), p. 174 (C'annna River) ; 



Hartl.J.f. O. 1801, p. 271; Hchl. Mas. I'ays-Bas, Italli, p. i'8 



(18(>j); Gray, Haiid-I. B. iii. p. 04, no. I047o (1871); Bdttik. 



Notes Lcijd. Muf. vii. p. 245 (18!<.): Liberia), viii. p. 206 (ISSi!) 



X. p. 103 (1888), xi. pp. 12s, 1;J7 (1889). 

 IIa;matoruis himantopus, ^dd. llandl. BierJ;. ii. p 448 pi vii 



fig. 88 (18o7). ^ ^ ■ 



Adult. General colour above brown, mottled with black and 

 rufous, the feathers having a rufous-brown margin with a lar^o 

 subterminal black mark, tlie edges of the feathers whitish near 

 their ends, imparting a kind of streaked appearance; lesser and 

 m<!dian wing-coverts like the back ; ba>tard-wing, primarv-coverts, 

 greater coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with rufous exter- 

 lially, paler on the outer primaries; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 externally rufous ; crown of head dusky olive-brown, the hind 

 neck like the back ; a faintly indicated eyebrow of isabelline ; 

 •sides of face isabelline, mottled -with dusky tips to the feathers^ 

 with a broa'l band of whitish above the ear-coverts; throat white, 

 Avith dusky tips to the feathers ; remainder of under surface of body 

 olive-brown, with paler olive margins, having a subterminal shade 

 of somewhat darker brown : thighs pale olivaceous ; lower Hanks 

 more decidedly brown ; the under tail-coverts reddish brown ; under 



