82 HALLID^. 



tip lighter slate-colour, lower part of base of upper mandible and 

 whole of base of lower mandible magenta, of a lilac tinge ; tip of lower 

 mandible whitish ; feet dusky flesh-colour : orbital skin vermilion ; 

 iris crimson-lake " {F. Oates). Total length 9 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 4-8, tail 1-6, tarsus 1-55. 



Young. More brown than the adults, and not so olive ; the lower 

 back and rump blackish ; the eyebrow brown ; the sides of the face 

 ashy grey washed with brown ; lower throat, fore neck, and breast 

 brown instead of bluish grey ; the bars on the under surface broader 

 and not so distinct as in the adults. 



Hah. Nearly the whole of Tropical Africa. 



Purchased. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 SheUey Coll. 

 H. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 

 Monteiro Coll. 

 (Type of O. angolensis.) 

 Shelley Coll. 



Gumey Coll. 



W. E. & C. G. Oates, 

 Esqrs. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Red Sea, 30 miles off the Shelley Coll. 



African Coast, about midway 

 between Suez and Aden, 

 Nov. 22 {General Maister). 



21. CREX. 



Type. 

 Crex, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. p. 336 (1802) C. crex. 



Bange. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Crex crex. 



The Land-Rail, or Daker-Heu, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 30, pi. 32 



(1738). 

 Le Rasle de Genet, ou Roi de CaDles, Briss. Orn. v. p. 159, pi. 13. 



fig. 2 (1760). 

 Rallus crex, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 261 (1766) ; Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. 



p. 711 (1788) ; Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 163 (1811 : Russia 



and Siberia to the R. Lena) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. 



p. 553 (1819) ; Rou.v, Orn. Prov. pi. 328 (1825) : Wright, Ibis, 



1864, p. 49 (Malta). 

 Le Rale de Terre, ou de Genet, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 146 



(1781). 

 Le Rale de Genet, Daubent. PI. Fnl. ix. pi. 750. 

 Crake Gallinule, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 250 (1785). 

 GaUinula crex, Lath. Ltd. Orn. ii. p. 766 (1790) ; Forster, Syn. Cat. 



Brit. B. p. 27 (1817) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 687 (1820) ; 



Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 34 (1827) ; Gould, B. Eur. iv. pi. 341 



