150 EALLIDJi. 



4. Limnoljseiius suahelensis. 



Crex sualielensis, Tristram, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 93 ; Reichen. ^- Schakno 

 J.f. 0. 1883, p. 402 ; Tristr. Cat. Tristr. Coll. p. 28 (1889). 



? Adult (tj'pe of species). General colour above blackish, -with a 

 reddish-brown tinge, the feathers washed with this colour at the 

 ends, the wing-coverts more entirelj' reddish brown ; all the feathers 

 of the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts with whitish margins to 

 both webs of the feathers, imparting a curious]}' streaked appear- 

 ance to the upper surface ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 more uniform dark brown ; bastard-wing ashj' brown, the outer 

 feather margined with white, the first primary edged with white ; 

 primary-coverts darker brown ; quills sepia-brown, the innermost 

 secondaries like the back and similarly streaked with white ; upi^er 

 tail-coverts and tail-feathers dark brown, edged with tawny buff ; 

 crown of head and hind neck uniform rufous brown ; the sides of 

 the neck with a few liny white spots ; lores, eyebrow, and sides of 

 face light tawny rufous, as also the sides of the neck, fore neck, and 

 chest ; throat white, as also the breast and abdomen ; sides of body 

 dark brown with white margins, the sides of the breast tawny ; 

 thighs light ashy : under tail-coverts and lower flanks tawnj' 

 rufous ; under wing-coverts ashy with whitish margins. Total 

 length 9 inches, culmen 0"7o, wing 4, tail 2, tarsus 1*4, middle toe 

 and claw 2-1 {Mvs. II. B. Tristram). 



Hch. Eastern Africa (llibe). 



37. LIMNOCORAX. 



Type. 

 Limnocorax, Peters, Bcr. preuss. Akacl. Wissench. Bei'lin, 



1854, p. 187 L. niger. 



Jlange. Confined to Africa. 



1. Limnocorax niger. 



Black Eail, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ], p. 236 (178-5). 



Eallus niger, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 717 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Did. cCHist. 



Nat. xxviii. p. 559 (1819) : Less. Traite, p. 537 (1831). 

 Galliniila carinata, Su-ai7is. Classif. B. i. p. 158, fig. 86, c. d. (1837). 

 Gallinula flavirostra. Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 244, tab. 28 (1837) ; 



id. An. in Menag. p. 338 (1837). 

 Ortvgometra nigra. Gray, List Gratia Brit. Mt/s. p. 118 (1844) ; 



Finsch ^- Hartl. Voc/. Ostafr. p. 779 (1870); Gray, Hand-l. B. 



iii. p. 62, no. 10458 (1871) \ Beiehen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 12 (Loango 



Coast) ; Fisc/ier l^'- Beichen. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 248 (Osi-Tana district) ; 



Hartl. Abhandl. rnit. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 119 (1881: Lado) ; 



Peh. Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxi. p. 155 (1881 : Mahagi) ; Bohm, J. f. 



0. 1882, p. 186 (Kakoma, May); Schalow, J.f. O. 1883, p. 340; 



Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Oim. i. p. 386 (1884: Nguniman, Naiwascha 



Lake); Bidtik. Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 245 (1885: Liberia); 



Meyer, Abhild. Vogel-Sk.^t. xi. (1884); Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, 



p. 117 (Zanzibar: Barawa); Bohm, t. c. p. 38 (Gonda); Beichen. 



J. f. 0. 1887, p. 48 (Kagehi) ; Matschie, t. c. p. 145 (Marimgii) 



