17. CANIRALLUS. 



Type. 

 Canirallus, Bp. C. H. xliii. p. 600 (18-56, descr. nulla), C. oculeus. 



wide 

 Canirallus, Hartl. Voff. Madug. p. 350 (1877) C. kioloides. 



liange. West Africa ; Madagascar. 



Ki'ij to the Species. 



(I. Larger : throat bluish grey like the forehead and 

 sides of face ; large white spots on the outer 

 aspect of the quills ; wing-coverts olive like the 

 back oculeus, p. 72. 



h. Smaller : throat white ; forehead and sides of face 

 bluish grey ; small buff spots on the outer aspect 

 of the quills ; wing-coverts deep chestnut like 

 the back kioloides, p. 73. 



1. Canirallus oculeus *. 



Galliniila oculea, Hartl J.f. 0. 1855, p. 3-57 {ex Temm. MSS.) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 67, no. 10.506 (1871). 



Canirallus oculeus, Bp. C. B. xliii. p. 600 (1856) ; Hartl. Faun. 

 Madag. p. 80 (1862). 



Eallus oculeus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 241 (l''^57) ; Cass. Proc. 

 Bhilad. Acad. 1859, p. 174 (Canima Eiver) : Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 19-5 (Fantee); uA P. Z. -S". 1871, p. 614 (Cameroons) ; Ussher, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 74 (Fantee) ; Oust. N. Arch. Mas. (2) ii. Bull. p. 142 

 (1879: Gaboon) ; Beichen. J.f. O. 1890, p. 106 (Cameroons). 



Hypotsenidia oculea, Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 274. 



Rallina oculea, Sckl. Miis. Pays-Bas, Iviilli, p. 20 (186.5) ; BiittiJc. 

 Notes Lcyden Mus. x. p. 102 (1888 : Liberia), xi. pp. 128, 137 

 (1889). 



Adult. General coloiir above olive-brown, with a slight russet 

 tinge on the rump; wing-coverts like the back, the median and 

 greater series blackish, externally olive, and conspicuously marked 

 with large white spots or bands, these white markings having a black 

 margin ; bastard-wing, primarj'-coverts, and quills blackish, ex- 

 ternally shaded with olive, with the same large ovate spots and bars 

 of white ; the innermost secondaries like the back, with a few 

 reddish bars or spots ; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut ; crown 

 of head dark brown, this shade extending down the hind neck ; 

 forehead and anterior part of crown, as well as the lores, anterior 

 cheeks, and throat, light ashy grej' ; sides of hinder crown, ear- 

 coverts, hinder cheeks, sides of neck, lower throat, and entire breast 

 rich vinous chestnut ; remainder of under surface of body dingy 

 olive-brown, with a slight reddish tinge, the abdomen nearly 



* This species has been included in the Avifauna of Papua.sia, but witliout 

 reason (c/. Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 284). The following is the synonymy : — 



Ralliis ocLdeus, Gray, P. Z. S. 18.58, p. 197 (Louisiades). 

 Rallina oculea, Grdi/, P.Z.8. 1861, p. 438 (Mysol, Aru). 

 liallus oculea, Finsch, Keii-Guinea, p. 181. 



These synonyms probably refer to Gymnoceres pbimheivcntris. 



