4. iiYDK.u.i cion. 7'- 1 



Adult. General colour above cinnamon-rufous, the wings like the 

 back ; bastard-wing feathers blackish with rufous centres, the 

 primary-coverts entirely rufous ; primaries black, the secondaries 

 rufous like the back, the outer ones blackish at the end of the outer 

 wrli; rump white, somewhat mixed with rufous where it adjoins 

 the back; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, with blackish tips to 

 the feathers; head for the most part bare, the hinder crown and 

 occiput black; nape, hind-neck, and fides of neck pure white, the 

 latter washed with st ra w-colour ; a small black patch on the top of 

 the mantle; sides of face and ear-coverts, as well as the entire 

 throat and fore-neck, black ; chin whitish ; remainder of under 

 Surface deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut, with a large patch of 

 white on the lower Hanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like 

 the breast, the latter with ashy brown bases: "bill, frontal shield, 

 and feet pearly grey; iris clear brown'' (A. Gfrandidier). Total 

 length 10*5 inches, culmen and frontal shield 2'1, wing (i, tail 1*9, 

 tarsus 2-4, middle toe and claw 3*3. 



Young birds, according to MM. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier, 

 ire paler in colour, have the top of the head and nape black varied 

 with white ; the neck white, as well as the greater part of the face ; 

 the hack and tail-coverts are rufous, slightly washed with greenish. 

 The frontal shield is smaller than in the adult. 



Huh. Madagascar. 



a. Ad. st. Madagascar. M. Guerin [P.]. 



h. Ad.sk. Madagascar. M. Guerin [P.J. 



c. .Iuv.sk. Madagascar {Bewsher). Shelley Coll. 



</. skeleton. Madagascar. Purchased. 



e. Skeleton. Madagascar. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. HYDRALECTOR. 



Type. 

 Hydralecl ir, Wogler, Isis, L832, p. 280 II. gallinaceus. 



Range. Australia and New Guinea ; Celebes; S.E. Borneo. 



1 . Hydralector gallinaceus. 



Parra gullinacea, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 464 (c. 1831); Lrss. Traiti 

 p. 639 (1881 ) : Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 589 (18J6) ; Gould, li. . lustr 

 vi. pi. 75 (1843); Gray, P. '/.. S. I860, pp. 366, 488 (Banda*); 

 Govid, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 330 (1865); Ramsay, Ibis, 1866' 

 p. :;t)") (Rockhauipton ; Clarence River); id. Ibis, 1867, p. 417 



1.1. ix. fig. •'! (egg): id. /'. /.. s. L877, p. .-ill (Qi nslandj ; id. 



I'm,-. I.i, in. Soc. N 8.W. ii. p. l!»i) (1878); Masters, t.c. p. 275 

 I Pert Darwin); Ramsay, Tab. ListAvstr.B.^.2] (1888) • North 

 Wests \ Effffs Austr. /.'. p. 327 (1889); Cox # Ramilton, Proc 

 Linn. Soc. MS. W. (2) iv. p. 421 1 1889 : Mudgee district | ; Biittik. 

 hi Max Weber, Zool. Ergeh. Reis. Nederl. Ost-Ind. p. .'lor. | [893V 



Hydralector gallinaceus, Wagler, Tsis, 1832, p.280; Walden, '/'>■ 

 /.. S. \ili. p. 92 (1872: Menado; Makassar); Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 1 11 (Limbotto); Forbes, 1\ /.. S. 1881, p. 647; Blasius,J. t. 0. 



* I have not found Mr. Gray's authority lor this locality. 



