1 68 EALLID^. 



b. Sides of body broadly streaked -with white. 



c' . Ease of lower mandible red; toes darker 

 than tarsi. 

 a" . Frontal shield rounded at top chloropus, p. 169. 



b''. Frontal shield truncated \-' ^ •'/' • ' -,q(^ 



I sanawichensis, p. IbU. 



(V. Base of under mandible yellow ; toes j'ellow, 



like the tarsi : size small iinyidata, p. 181. 



1. Gallinula tenebrosa. 



Gallinula tenebrosa, Gould, P. Z. S. 184G, p. 20 (S. Australia) ; ul. 

 B. Austr. vi. pi. 73 (1846) ; Gmihl, Handb. B. Austi: ii. p. 328 

 (Upper Hunter ; N. S. Wales ; Murray River) ; Gray, Hand-l.B. 

 iii. p. 66, no. 10946 (1871) ; Ramsay, Froc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 i. p. 193 (1887 : breeding) ; id. t. c. p. 218 (Sydney) ; id. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. IF. ii. p. 199 (1878 : distr. in Australia), iv. p. 162 

 (1880), vii. p. 56 (18»3) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 21 (1888) ; 

 North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. IF. (2) i. p. 11U8 (1886) ; id. Nests ir 

 Bygs Austr. B. p. 325 (1890). 



Adult. General colour above dusky olive-brown, with an ashy 

 shade on the scapulars and mantle ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, with a light 

 ashy shade externally ; the inner secondaries like the back ; tail- 

 feathers black ; head and neck all round as well as the under 

 surface of body dark slaty grey, a little more dingy on the head and 

 throat ; under tail-coverts white, slightly tinged with bufi', the long 

 centre ones black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dark slaty 

 grey like the breast : " base of bill blood-red, the tip greenish 

 yeUow ; frontal plate orange ; above the knee a garter of yellow 

 and scarlet ; joints of the feet and legs green ; under surface of the 

 legs and feet olive ; frontal plates of tarsi yellow, those nearest the 

 knee stained with scarlet ; iris olive " (J. Gould). Total length 

 14-5 inches, c.ulmen with frontal shield 1'8, wing 8, tail 2-8, 

 tarsus 2'3, middle toe and claw 3*6. 



Young. Browner than the adult, and light ashy grey below ; the 

 throat dull whitish, the abdomen also whitish. 



Occasionally some slight evidences of white shaft-lines are to be 

 seen in individuals iu this species ; and in one example from Southern 

 Australia they are well marked. 



Hob. Eastern and Southern Australia ; Southern Kew Guinea. 



«. Ad. sk. Australia. Zoological Society. 



h. Ad. sk. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



c, d, e. Ad. sk. ; Queensland. Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 /, y. Juv. sk. 



2. Gallinula frontata. 



Gallinula tenebrosa, pt., Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 600 (1856). 



Gallinula ha^matopus, Temm. MSS. in Mus. Luyd. ; Bp. C. R. xliii. 

 p. 600 (1856, descr. nulla); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 44 

 (1865 : Celebes ; Amboina) ; id. Dierentuin, p. 263 (1872) ; Gray, 



