120 KALLID^. 



dark brown ; the inner secondaries black, with chocolate-brown 

 edges ; upper tail-coverts chestnut, tipped -with black ; tail chestnut ; 

 crown of head and hind neck, sides of face, lower throat and breast 

 vinous chestnut ; throat isabeUine, washed with vinous chestnut, 

 shading off into the latter ; lower breast, abdomen, thighs, sides of 

 body, and flanks ashy brown, a little darker on the latter ; under 

 tail-coverts chestnut with black tips ; under wing-coverts uniform 

 brown. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2'9, tail 1-7, 

 tarsus 0-!)5, middle toe and claw 1"2. 



Adult femaU. Different from the male. General colour above 

 chocolate-brown, with a few white dots, the mantle and upper back 

 ratlier darker brown than the crown and lower back ; wing-coverts 

 uniform chocolate-brown, with a few white dots on the greater 

 series ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills uniform sepia- 

 brown, with a few white spots and bars on the secondaries, more 

 distinct on the inner secondaries, which are blackish in the centre 

 with olive-brown margins ; upper tail-coverts black, crossed with 

 whitish bars, and with chestnut bars near the base ; the tail-feathers 

 black, with narrow whitish and broad chestnut bars ; crown of head 

 uniform dark brown ; eyebrow and sides of face isabelline brown, 

 speckled with darker brown ; the loral region dark brown ; cheeks, 

 throat, and centre of breast isabelline ; sides of neck and entire sides 

 of body dark brown, paler and more ashy brown on the abdomen ; 

 under tail-coverts black, narrowly barred with white and broadly 

 with chestnut ; under wing-coverts uniform brown. Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-7, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah, Madagascar. 



a. S ad. sk. Madagascar. Seebohm Coll. 



b,c. (S 2 ad. sk. Betsileo, Madagascar, Dec. Rev. W. Deans Cowan 



[C.]. 



5. Corethrura elegans. 



Gallinula elegans, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. xxii. (1839). 

 Corethrura pulchia„pt., Grm/, Gen. B. iii. p. 595(1840); Lrnjard, B. 



8. Afr. p. ?.39 (18G7: Knysna) ; Grni/, Hatid-l. B. iii. p. 63, 



no. 104G8 (1871, pt.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 615 



(1884). 

 Coretlirura elegaus, Reichenh. Handb., Fulicarue, tab. cxxv. fig. 1221 



(1851); Finsch. J. f. O. 1867, p. 249 (Durban) ; i?/j. C. R. xliii. 



p. 599 (1856). 



Adult male. General colour above black, numerously and thickly 

 mottled with ovate spots and bars of ochre ; the wing-coverts like 

 the back, the greater series distinctly barred rather than spotted ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky blackish, freckled 

 with minute spots of pale ochre along the outer edge ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail cinnamon-rufous, banded with black ; head and 

 neck all round bright cinnamon-rufous as well as the throat and 

 breast ; remainder of under surface black, numerously spotted and 

 barred with white, the bars on the lower flanks being pale ochre -, 



