Advlt. General eolour above bright olive-brown, the scapulars 

 like the back ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail bright 

 chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts bright chestnut, the inner ones some- 

 what olivaceous ; median and greater coverts olive-brown, with a 

 slight wash of chestnut ; bastard-wing, primarj-- coverts, and quills 

 black, the bastard-wing feathers with white bars on the inner web, 

 the quills chequered with rufous spots on the outer web and barred 

 with white on the inner web ; the inner secondaries ruddy olive 

 with a rufous tinge ; crown of head like the back ; forehead and 

 lores and feathers rouTid ej'e ashj' grey ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 bright chestnut like the under surface ; upper margin of ear-coverts 

 olive-brown ; throat white, with a faint dusky margin ; sides of 

 neck also chestnut like the under surface ; lower abdomen, flanks, 

 and thighs dusky olive, barred with blackish ; under tail-coverts 

 with rather more rufescent bars : under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 black, broadly barred with white ; quills below black, crossed by 

 four rows of white or fulvous spots, forming bands : " bill bluish, 

 blackish at the base ; feet reddish brown ; iris brown " {A. Gran- 

 dvlier). Total length 10"5 inches, culmen I'l, wing 5"2, tail 2*1, 

 tarsus Vb. 



Bah. Madagascar. 

 a. Ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar {A. Cross- Shelley Coll. 



%)• 

 h. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



c. Ad. St. Madagascar. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of C. griseofrons.) 

 djC-if- 6 5id. et Forest of Xorth Senhendra, A. Majastre [C.). 

 juv. sk. Madagascar. 



IS. RALLINA. 



Type. 



Tiallina, Heichenh. Hand!)., Fulicar. p. xxi (1846) R. fasciata. 



Euryzona, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. o!)9 (1856, descr. nulla) , . E,. fasciata. 



Hanr/e. India and Ceylon, through the Burmese countries and 

 the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago to K.E. Australia. 



Keif to the Species. 

 a. Wing-coverts broadly bai-red with white or 

 huffy white ; quills regularly banded with 



white below fasciata, p. 75. 



h. Wing-coverts uniform, or with a few zigzag 

 irregular white bars. 

 a . Throat white ; brown coloiu' of back ascending 

 to the nape, leaving the bead, sides of face, 

 and lower throat and fore neck orange- 

 chestnut ; white bars on abdomen as distinct 



as the dusky ones superciliaris, p. 7Q. 



h' . Throat rufous or isabelline. 



a" . Hind neck chestnut as well as the crown ; 



mantle dark olive-brown like the back ; 



white bars distinct on abdomen. 



a". White spots on under wing-coverts 



larger ; white bars on breast rather 



broad eio-yzonoidvs, p. 78. 



