118 EALLID^. 



w, [ 5 ] ad. sk. N'doruma, Niam-niam F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



Coiintiy, Nov. 

 o. 2 ad. sk. Tingasi, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



July. 



2. Corethrura insularis. 



Corethnu-a insularis, S/mrpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 400, 1871, pp. 31, 

 315, pi. 32; Sartl. Vog. Madmj. p. .343(1877); Milne-Edwards 

 c^ Grandid. Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 575, pi. ccxxx. a. fig. 5, 

 pi. ccxxxvi. 



Ortygometra insularis, Gray, Sand-l. B. iii. p. 63, no. 10472 (1871). 



Adult male. Head, throat, and breast rich chestnut ; sides of 

 neck black, margined with white on each side of the feathers, 

 producing a streaked appearance ; centre of the back and scapulars 

 black, streaked like the sides of the neck, but with yellowish 

 margins to the feathers instead of white ; wing-coverts black; all 

 the feathers margined with whitish ; quills brownish black, irre- 

 gularly varied with yellowish on the outer primaries ; secondaries 

 deep black, irregularly streaked and spotted with rufous white ; tail 

 deep chestnut ; abdomen black, longitudinally streaked with white, 

 the lower abdomen and vent brownish ; under tail-coverts chestnut, 

 like the tail ; bill black ; feet yellowish brown. Total length G-2 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-8, tail 1-9, tarsus 0*75, middle toe 1-15. 



Adult female . Above black, streaked with pale rufous: scapulars 

 and wing-coverts as well as lower back banded and irregularly 

 mottled with rufous ; quills uniform brown, the secondaries vcrmi- 

 culated with rufous ; tail dark chestnut, with blackish bands ; lores 

 pale ochraceous ; cheeks ochraceous, spotted with black ; entire 

 throat ochraceous, without any spots ; breast reddish ochre, spotted 

 with black dots ; rest of under surface black, crossed with bars of 

 pale ochraceous. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-85. 



Eah. Madagascar. 



a,h. c? $ ad. sk. Nossi Vola, Madagascar {A. Shelley Coll. (Types 

 Crossley). of species.) 



c,d. c? 2 ad.sk. Ampasmahave,Sept. (C'ros.s/ey). Shelley CoU. 



e,f. c? 2 ad. sk. Ankafana Forest, March ( W. Shelley Coll. 

 Deans Coican). 



ff. S ad. sk. Madagascar, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/(. 2 f'd- ^^- Madagascar. Seebohm Coll. 



«', ^. 6 2 ^^- ^^- Madagascar. Mr. Crossley [C.]. 



3. Corethrura lineata. 



Alecthelia lineata. Swains. An. in 3Ienag. p. 339 (1837) ; id. Classif. 



B. ii. p. 3.58 (1837). 

 Gallinula jardinii, Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. xxi. (1839). 

 Alechthelia jardinii, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. text to pi. xxi. (1839). 

 Corethrura ruficollis, pt.. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 595 (1846). 

 Corethrura jardinii, Reichenb. Handh., Fulicarice, tab. cxxv. fig. 1224 



(1851) ; Bp. a R. xliii. p. 599 (18-56). 

 Crex jardinii, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Kalli, p. 27 (1856). 



