28. APHANOIIMNAS. — 29. COKETHETTRA. 115 



chin whitish ; under win^-coverts and quill-lining dark chocolate- 

 brown. Total length 5-5 inches, cidmen 0"7, wing 2'0, tail 0*55, 

 tarsus 1*1, middle toe and claw I'o. (Mus. W. Rothschild.) 

 Hah. Uijlanda of Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. 



28. APHANOLIMNAS. 



Type. 



Kittlitzia, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. 



Heft '•'>, p. 391 (18'J:i ; nee Ilartcrt, Kat. Voyels. 



Scnckenh. Mas. p. 75) A. monasa. 



Aphanoliniiias, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. iv. 



p. XX (1892) A. monasa. 



Rauf/e. Island of Kushai or Ualan. 



1. Aphanolimnas monasa. 



Rallus monasa, Kittl. Denkiviird. litis, russ. Ainerika, ii. p. -^O 



(1858). 

 Kittlitzia monasa, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. p. 391 



(1892). 

 Aphanolimnas monasa, Sharpe, Bidl. Brit. Oi~n. Club, no. iv. p. xx 



(1892). 



Adult. Black with a bluish-grey reflexion ; quiUs and tail some- 

 what browner ; inner wing-coverts brownish with white spotting, 

 outer edge of first primary duU brownish ; chin and middle of the 

 throat somewhat paler ; bill blackish. (Hartlaub.) 



Hab. Kushai. 



29. CORETHRURA*. ^p^ 



Alechthelia, Simins. (nee Less.) Class. B. ii. p. 358 



(1837) C. lineata. 



Coretbrura, Reichenh. ISijst. Av. tab. xxi. figs. 1-4 

 (IS-l^j ? doscr. nulla). 



Saurothrura, Heine ^- Rcichen. Nomencl. Mm, Hein. 



p. 319 (1890 ; nom. emend.) C. rufa. 



Range. Africa and Madagascar. 



Key to the Species, 

 a. Tail uniform chestnut. 



a'. ^\'iiig-coverts black, spotted with white like 



the baclv and breast pulchra S , V- ll*^- 



b'. Wing-coverts streaked with white or buffy 

 white like the bnck and breast. 



* I have not yet been able to identify the following species, which was also 

 a puzzle to Lord Twceddale {cf. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 232) :— 



Porzaim circoleps, Less, traite, p. 538 (1831, ex Eale ecaud^, Cuv. MSS. 



in Miif. I'ariji). 

 Oorctlirura circoleps, Bonap. C. Ii. xUii. p. 599 (1856). 

 Rnllus ecaudatus, Cuv., teste Bp. 



Ortygonietra cercolops, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 64. no. 10474 (1871). 

 Rallus caudatus, Cuv., teste Gray. 

 Hah. rhilippine Islands? 



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