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uniform, but the tlanks, thijihs, arul under tail-coverts reddish white, 

 the cross bars bordered with blackish : under tail-coverts like the 

 lower tlanks, but more tinged with chestnut ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries black, with laruo ovate spots and bars of pure white ; 

 (juills blackish below, with broad white bars: "bill green; feet 

 brown, soles yellow ; iris reddish brown " (J. Butti/rofer). Total 

 length 13 inches, culmen l'U5, wing 7, tail 2-6, tarsus 2, middle toe 

 and claw 0-85. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but rather more ruddy olive-brown ; 

 the wings barred indistinctly with reddish buff and spotted with 

 white, but the spots by no means so large as in the adults and 

 always slightly tinged with fulvous ; crown of head dark brown, 

 with no grey on the sides of the face or forehead : sides of neck 

 and under surface of body dull brown, with a reddish tinge, the 

 lower flanks and thighs barred with dingy ochreous bars ; under 

 tail-coverts clear ochreous buff, with blackish bands ; a slight tinge 

 of vinous on the sides of the neck and breast. 



A bird from Gaboon is similar to the true R. ocidexs, but is more 

 greenish olive above, and has a greater amount of grey on the face, 

 the ear-coverts and greater part of cheeks being grey. Total length 

 13 inches, culmen 1*6, wing 6-9, tail 2-6, tarsus 2, middle toe and 

 claw 2-05. 



On comparing the scries in the ^luseum, I find that the above 

 specimen is approached by some of these from the Gold Coast, and 

 it may be that the Gaboon bird belongs to a rather more brightly- 

 coloured race. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Gold Coast. 



«. Ad. sk. Gold Coast. Gould Coll. 



/>,c. Ad. sk. (4 old Coast. Shelley t"< ill. 



<i. Ad.; c.f.t/. Ju\.sk. Dfukem {Gov. T'sx/ier). Shelk'V foil. 



/*. Ad.sk.' Uiver Vulta (6-'or. Us.'</ier). Shelley Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Caraeroons (A. Crosslei/). Shelley Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Gahiion. M. Verreaux. 



/. Ad. .St. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



2. Canir alius kioloides. 



Galliniila kioloides, I'licher. liev. et Maij. de Zool. 184.5, p. 279. 

 Corethrura griseilVons (descr. nulla), Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 595 



(L<4(J). 

 Ortygometra griseofrons, Gray, t. c. pi. Kil (1846). 

 Eulabeornis griseifrons, Iteichcnb. Ilundb., Fulic. Taf. cccvi. tii.'. 2475 



(18.51). 

 Cnniralliis kioloides. Bp. C. i2. xliii. p. 600 (18-56); Harfl. Fuhii. 



Mddu,/. p. 80 (1861 ) ; A. Xcjct. P. Z. S. 1865, p. Smi 

 IJallina kioloides, .SV7//. P. Z. iS. 18i;6, p. 425; id. if Pull. Faune 



Muddy. , Ois. p. 185, pi. xxxvi. (1878). 

 Porzaiia kioloides, Grandid. Jicr. et May. de Zonl. 1868. p. 4. 

 (Jallinula griseofrons, Gray, Haiid-l B. iii. ]>. 67, no. 10507 (1871). 

 Kallus griseifrons, Sharpe. P. Z. S. Is72, p. 8()8. 

 Caniralius griseifions, Iltirfl. J'<iy. Mndiiy. p. .'i.50 (1877) ; Milne- 



Fdw. S,- Grand. IIi.<t. Xat. Maday., Ois. ii. p. 571, pis. 2.30 A. tig. 3, 



23.3,233 a, 233 b (1879) ; Hibree, Ibis, 1892, pp. 105, 114. 



