70 EALLID^. 



wing-coverts and axillaries Llackish, the former broadly tipped with 

 white; quilk dusky below: "tip of bill horn-blue, with a tinge 

 of rose-colour ; ridge of bill black, the base of the lower mandible 

 and a spot on each side of the base of the upper mandible grass- 

 green ; naked skin between bill and eyes bluish black ; feet coral- 

 red ; iris brick-red" (J. B'uttikofer). Total length 15 inches, 

 culmen 1-4, wing 8-4, tail 3-6, tarsus 3"2, middle toe 22. 



Nestling. Covered with tawny-buff down, paler on the under 

 surface ; head and nape black ; a broad patch of black running 

 down to the tail from the mantle, broader on the latter ; a black 

 patch on the ear-coverts. 



Hah. "West Africa, from Liberia to the Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. Zool. Society. 



h, e. 2 ad. sk. Kaizarako, IJenkera {Gov. Ussher). Shellev Coll. 



d. Pull. 



16. LRYOLIMNAS. 



Tyjie. 



Calamodromiis, pt., He'ichen. in Heine ^ Heichen. No- 



mencl. Mus. Hein. p. 322 (1890;. 

 Dryolimuas, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. no. v. p. xxviii 



(Jan. 1893) D. cuvieri. 



Range. Madagascar, Mauritius, Aldabra Island. 



1 . Dryolimnas cuvieri. 



Rallus gularis {nee Horsf.), Lesson, Traite, p. 536 (1831 : e.r Citvier, 



MSS. in Mus. Paris) ; Guer.-Menev. Iconoqr. R. Anim. Cuv. Ois. 



pi. 58. fig. 1 (1844) ; Pitcher. Rev. et Maq'. de Znol. 18-51, p. 275 ; 



Schl Mus. Puys-Bas, Ralli, p. 13 (18&5) ; id. P. Z. S. \m% 



p. 425; id. ^ Poll. Fmm. Madag.n.-^. 134 (1868); Hartl. Vof/. 



Madag. p. 337 (1877) ; Milne-Eihu. S^- Grand. Hist. Nat. Madaq., 



Ois. n. p. 569, pi. 230 b. iig. 2, pi. 232 (1879) ; Sibree, Ibis, 1892, 



pp. 104, 114. 

 Le Eale de Madagascar, Sgnnzin, Mem. Soc. Mus. Strasb. 1810, 



p. 46. 

 Rallus cuvieri, Piteher. Rev. et Map. de Zool. 1845, p. 279. 

 Eulabeornis gulai'is, Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 595 (1846); id. Hand-l. 



B. iii. p. 56, no. 10372 (1871) ; E. Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 68. 

 Rou^-etius bernieri, Bp. C. R. xHii. p 599 (1865) ; Hartl. Farm. 



Mndag. p. 79 (1861) ; E. Neict. Ibis. 1863, p. 458; Sol. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 165 ; A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 837. 

 Rougetius gularis, i)/j. C. R. xliii. p. 599(1856). 

 Oanirallus kioloides (nee Pucher.), Rock ^- E. Neict. Ibis, 1803 



p. 173. _ 

 Rallus bermeri, Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1868, p. 4; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 400. 

 Calamodromus bernieri, Heine &■ Reichen. Nomencl. 3Ius. Hein. 



p. 322 (1890). 



Adult. General colour above greenish olive, with black mesial 

 streaks to the feathers of the back and scapulars ; lower back, rump, 



