130 EALLIDJ5. 



cheeks dusky hlackish ; under surface of body dull -white, tinged 

 with reddish on the fore neck and sides of chest, which are also 

 mottled with small dusky spots; sides of the breast and tianks 

 blackish, spotted and streaked on the former with white, and ob- 

 scurely barred on the latter with white ; under tail-coverts chestnut, 

 barred with black like the tail ; under wiug-covcrts and axillaries 

 white, slightly mottled with dusky bases : " bill pale dusky, darkest 

 ou the ridge ; tarsi and feet pale dusky ; iris ashy hazel " {T. Ayres). 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen O'o, wing 3-1, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Two specimens were obtained by Mr. Ayres, and the one described 

 was presented to the Museum by Mr. Gurney. The other specimen 

 I have not seen, but it is apparently a more adult bird than the 

 one the Museum possesses, as it has a rufescent chest. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Sharpe Coll. (One of 



Oct. 4. the types of species.) 



b. Imm. sk. KingwiUiamstown, Aug. Major Trevelyan [P.]. 



{E. 0. Anstey). 



33. POLIOLIMNAS. 



Type. 



Polioliranas, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. v. p. xxviii 



(Jan. 1893) P. cinereus. 



Range. The same as that of the single species. 

 1. Poliolimnas cinereus. 



Sandwich Rail, var. (ex ins. Tanna), Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 235. 



Eallus sandwicheusis, var., Gm. S. N. ii. p. 717 (1788). 



Porphyrio cinereus, Vieill. (nee Rallus cinereus, Vieill.) Nouv. Diet. 



xxviii. p. 29 (1819) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 598 (1845) ; Pucker. 



Rev. et May. de Zool. 185], p. 563. 

 Eallus quadristrigatus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 196 (1821). 

 Gallinula leucosoma, Sio. Anim. in Menay. p. 348 (1837). 

 Rallus tannensis, Forst. Descr. An. p. 275 (1844). 

 Crex quadristriata, Licht. in Forst. Descr. An. p. 275 (1844). 

 Ortygometra ocularis (nom. nudum), Gray, List Gralla Brit. Mus. 



p. 119 (1844: Phihppines). 

 Zapornia sandwichensis, Reichenh. (nee Gm.) Handb., Fulic. Taf. cxix. 



tigs. 1184-85 (1846). 

 Ortygometra leucosoma. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 594 (1846). 

 Corethrura quadristrigata, Gray, torn. cit. p. 595 (1846). 

 Gallinula superciliosa, Temm. (nee Siv.), teste Gray, I.e. 

 Corethrura mystacina, Temm. teste Gray, I.e. (1846). 

 Corethrura sandwichensis. Gray, I. c. (1846). 

 Corethrura tannensis, Gray, ibid. n. 25 (1846). 

 Porzana leucophrys, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 33; id. B. Austr. vi. 



pi. 81 (1848) ; Reichenh. Viiy. Neuholl. p. 342, n. 477 (1851) ; id. 



Handb., Fulic. Novit. t. xlii. tigs. 2469-70 (1851) ; Macyill. Nan: 



Voy. 'Rattlesnake; ii. p. 358 (1852) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 198 ; 



id. Cat. B. Netv Guin. p. 63 (1859) ; Marie, Act. Soe. Li?iH. Bord. 



xxxvii. p. 327 (1870). 

 Porzana quadristrigata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 284 (1849); 



Wall. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 487 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



