45. GALLINULA. 181 



•J. Gallinula angiilata. 



Gallinula an^iilata, Siindev. (I'^fv. K. }'et.-Akud. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 

 p. 110; tichl. Must. Pai/.i-Bcts, Kalli, p. 4i» (ISOo) ; Layard, B. 

 S. Afr. p. 342 (1867 : Swellemlaui) ; (iurney in Anderss. li. Dam.- 

 Ld. p. '621 (1872 : Undonfra, breeding) ; Sharpe, in Oaten' Matabele- 

 Land, App. Birds, p. 331 (1881: Dry River; Tibakai's Vley) ; 

 Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 001 (Dar-es-Salaam) ; id. Ibis, 1882, p. 366 

 ( Matabele-LaudJ ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. >S. Afr. p. 624 (1884); 

 Heine ^- Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Ifein. p. 318 (1890 : S. Thomas) ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 240 (Teita). 



(lalliiiula ])umila, Sclater, Ibis, 18o9, p. 249, pi. vii. (Natal) ; Gray, 

 Hand-/. B. iii. p. 60, no. 10498 (1«71). 



Galliuida minor (aucf. e.v Briss.), JIartl. J. f. O. 1860, p. 341 (Sene- 

 gal), 1861, p. 272 ; Bohin, J.f. O. 1882, p. 188 (Kakoma). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, washed with greeni.sli 

 olive; wng-coverts rather more ashy grey ; bastard-wing feathers 

 b^o^v^l, edged \vith white ; primary-coverts and quills brown, exter- 

 nally ashy, the tirst primary white along the outer web ; tail- 

 feathers blackish ; head and neck all round and under surface of 

 body dark slaty grey, blackish on the* crown, sides of face, and 

 throat ; the flanks broadly streaked with white ; vent and median 

 under tail-coverts black ; remainder of the under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty grey like the breast ; a line 

 of Avhitc along the bend of the wing : "frontal shield bright red; 

 bill bright yellow ; feet and toes grass-green, in some drab or flesh- 

 coloured tinged with light green " (C. J. Andersson). Total length 

 9 inches, culmen and frontal shield 1'2, wing 5'7, tail 2'3, tarsus 

 1"55, middle toe and claw 2-'6. 



Adult females, according to Mr. Andersson, differ from the males 

 in being lighter grej- and having a nearly white chin and throat : 

 " frontal shield not so bright as in the male and tinged with orange 

 atbase"(C'. J. ^1.). 



Yoanij. Browner than the adult, the upper parts being chocolate- 

 browu with a tinge of olive ; head dusky brown ; lores and eyebrow 

 ashy grey, as also the ear-coverts ; cheeks and throat white ; fore 

 neck and chest light brown, as also the sides of the breast ; remainder 

 of under surface hoary grey, darker ashy on the flanks; veut black; 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-eovertvS and axillaries ashy 

 grey, edged with white; flanks broadly streaked with white, as in 

 the adult: "frontal shield orange-red" (C. J. A.). 



JIab. The greater part of Africa. 



a,h. c^ad. ; c,d, Accra, March, Mav, .Tulv Shellev Coll. 



e. $ ad. sk. (J. Smith). 



f. 2 nil- sk. Ambriz, Angola. Monteiro Coll. 



t/,h. (S 2 ad. sk. Damara-Land. Tweeddale Coll. 



«. cS ad. sk. Diy Kiver, Transvaal, Feb. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



27 (F. dates). Esqrs. [P.. 



k: 2 ad. sk. Tibakai's Valley(/: Oates). W. E. & C .(}. Gates, 



Esqrs. rp.J. 



/. Imm. sk. Makolaka Country. Dr. Bradsliaw [C.j. 



m, n. (J 2 a^l- *'<• Dar-es-Salaaui(^'SV/\/.A7/-i). Shelley Coll. 



