84 EALLID^. 



(Portugal) ; Lilford, Ibis, 1889, p. 336 (Cyprus) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. 



1st Resoc. p. 546 (1889) ; Koeing, J. f. O. 1890, p. 313 (Madeira) ; 



Reiser, Vik/. Mus. Sarajevo, p. 116 (1891); Madaine, Scot. Nat. 



i. p. 94 (1891) ; Gatke, Vogehv. Helgoland, p. 530 (1891) ; Seebohm, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 25 (Heligoland). 

 Ortygometra crex, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. ^ B. Brit. Mus. p. 34 



(1816) ; Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 218, pi. 26 (1824) ; 



Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 117 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. 



p. 593 (1846) ; Riipp. Syst. TJebers. p. 128 (1845) ; Sundev. Si-ensk. 



Foql. pi. 45. fig. 2 (1856) ; Jaub. (^- Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. 



p. 490 (1859) : Reinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 11 (Greenland) ; Gray, List 



Brit. B. p. 178 (1863) ; More, Ibis, 1865, p. 439 ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 338 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 377 ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. 



p. 199 (1869) ; Fritsch, Vog. Bur. Taf. 32. figs. 2, 6 (1870) ; 



id. J.f. 0. 1871, p. 351 (Bohemia); Seugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. 



p. 1242 (1871); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. Q-2, no. 10450 (1871); 



Shelley, B.Egypt, -^.27 4. {\Q1 -I); Irhy, B. Gibr. p. 142 (1875); 



Ay res. Ibis, 1877, p. 351 (Lydenburg) ; HaHl. Abhandl. not. Ver. 



Bremm, vii. p. 119 (1881: Lado); Madardsz, Ausst. Ungar. 



Vogelf. p. 112 (1891). 

 Crex herbarum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 694 (1831). 

 Crex alticeps, Brehm, t. c. p. 694 (1831). 

 The Coru-Crake, Yarr. Br. B. iii. p. 6 (1843). 

 Crex crex, Shmpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 611 (1884) : A. O. 



U. Check-l. N. Am. B. p. 143 (1886) ; Butcher, Auk, iii. p. 435 



(1888 : Long Is.) ; Ridqw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 140 (1887) ; 



Dutclier, Auk, v. p. 177* (1888 : Long Is.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, 



p. Ill (Fao) ; Hartert, Ibis, 1892, p. 513 (E. Prussia) ; Shelley, Ibis, 



1893, p. 29 (Zomba). 



Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above brown, 

 mottled with black centres to the feathers, which have more or less 

 of an ashy shade on their margins ; scapulars like the back, with 

 broad black centres ; wing-coverts uniform bright chestnut ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills chestnut-brown, the first primary 

 externally isabelline buff, the inner secondaries like the back, with 

 black centres, and indistinguishable from the scapulars ; tail- 

 feathers light reddish brown, centred with black ; crown of 

 head fulvous brown, mottled with black centres to the feathers, 

 the two colours arranged in streaks ; hind neck and sides of 

 neck fulvous brown, with smaller blackish-brown spots ; lores 

 and feathers below the eye, as well as a band along the upper ear- 

 coverts to the sides of the neck sandy buff ; above the eye a band 

 of ashy grey, widening towards the sides of the nape ; ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, lower throat, fore neck, and chest ashy grey ; the chin and 

 upper throat isabelline ; breast and abdomen isabelline as well as 

 the under tail-coverts ; sides of upper breast brown, with a few 

 white bars ; flanks sandy rufous or rufous brown, the feathers tipped 

 and barred with isabelline or whitish ; sides of vent barred with 

 darker brown ; thighs sandy rufous ; shorter under tail-coverts 

 barred with rufous and brown ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries 

 bright chestnut; quills below brown, rufescent along the inner 

 edge : " bill, feet, and claws pale brown ; iris hazel " {H. Seebohm). 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 5-6, tail 1-9, tarsus 1-45. 



