71. LIMNOCRYPTES. G67 



(1876 : Mount Aboo distr.) ; Fairb. t. c. p. 263 (Khandala) ; 

 Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 28;} (1876) ; Wharton, Ibis, 1876, p. 27 

 (Corsica) ; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 653, pi. 544 (1877) ; Butler, 

 Str. F. v. p. 232 (1877 : Deesa) ; Fairb. t. c. p. 410 (Palani 

 Hills) ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 479 (1877) ; Hume £ 

 Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 45!) (1878 : Tenasserim) ; Blakiston |- 

 Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 222 (Japan) ; Davidson $ Wenden, Str. F r 

 vii. p. 88 (1878 : Deccan) ; Ball, t, c. p. 228 (Ganges to Godaveri) ; 

 Grippe, t. c. p. 302 (Faridpnr) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 61 

 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 112 (1879) ; Scully, t. c. p. 356 

 (Nepal Valley, Sept. to April); Finsch, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 

 xxix. p. 254 (1879: Semipalatinsk) ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. 

 Pres. p. 76 (1880) ; Ler/c/e, B. Ceylon, pp. 828, 1219 (1880) ; 

 Collett, Norges Fugle, p. 86 (1881) ; Blakist. $ Pryer, B. Japan, 

 p. 115 (1882); Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 121 (Afghanistan); Salvitt, 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 608 (1882) ; Gigl. Iconogr. Avif. Ital, no. 308 

 (1882); Saunders, e d. YarreWs Brit. B. iii. p. 351 (1883); Irby, 

 Ibis, 1883, p. 187 ( Santander) ; Gates, Handb. B. Brit. Bum. ii. 

 p. 384 (1883); Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 12 (1884); 

 Tristr. Faun. 8, Flor. Palest, p. 132 (1884) ; Murray, Vertebr. 

 Faun. Sind, p. 241 (1S84) ; Chapman, Ibis, 1884, p. 98 (Spain) ; 

 Saunders, t. c. p. 389 (Pyrenees) ; Swinh. # Barnes, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 133 (Mhow distr.) ; Pleske, Uebers. Siiug. u. Viig. Kola-Halb. 

 p. 340 (1886) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 406 (1886) ; Harvie-Brmvn £ 

 Btickley, Vertebr. Faun. Caithn. etc. p. 217 (1887 : autumn 

 visitor) ; Backhouse, Ibis, 1887, p. 74 (East Pyrenees) ; Tait, t. c. 



p. 389 (Portugal) ; Harvie-Brown iy Buckley, Vertebr. Faun. 

 Outer Hebrides, p. 131 (1888 : winter) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 321 

 (1888 : Manipur) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 559 (1889) ; 

 Gigl. Avif. Ital,, 1st Resoc. p. 619 (1889), 2nd Resoc. p. 652 (1890), 



3rd Resoc. p. 512 (1891); Buckley Sf Harvie-Brown, Vertebr. 



Faun. Ork?iey Isl. p. 214 (1891 : winter) ; Madardsz, Erlaut. Ausst, 



Ungar. Vogelf. p. ] 11 (1891) ; Frivaldsky, Av. Hung. p. 149 (1891 ) ; 



Koenig, J. f O. 1892, p. 90 (Tunis) ; Hartert, Ibis, 1892, p. 514 



(East Prussia) ; Harvie-Brown St Buckley, Vertebr. Faun. Argyll 



9 Inner Hebrides, p. 176 (1892); Macpherson, Vertebr. Faun. 



Lakel. p. 377 (1892) ; Munn, Ibis, 1894, p. 73 (Calcutta) ; Whit- 



aker, t. c. p. 100 (Tunis); Dubois, Faun. III. Vert. Bel//., Ois. ii. 



p. 231, pi. 210 (1894) ; Martin $ Rol/in, Vertehres Sauv. I'lndre, 



p. 202 (1894) ; Reiser, Omis Balcanica, p. 164 (1894) ; Irby, Orn. 



Straits Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 279 (1895) ; Poyiit. Eggs Brit. B. part iii. 

 (1896). V y JJ P 



Ascalopax gallinula, Keys, fy Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. lxxvii, 216 



(1840) ; Miihle. Uri/r. Orn. Griechenl. p. 107 (1844); Linderm. 

 Yog. Griechenl. p. HI (I860); ll„rwp: !'<■>/< If. Xorddeutschl. 



p. 118 (1869); Taos. Hull. Soc. Zool. France, i.'p.' 257 (1876) ; id. 



op. cit. ii. p. 158 (1877 : Poland). 

 Telniatias gallinula, Drotte, Vogelw. Borkum.v. 234 (1869); Saunders, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 889. 



Adult male. General colour above black, with reflections of glossy 

 green and purple, and a few rufous markings on the back, mostly 

 in the form of streaks ; the sides of the back ornamented with a 

 longitudinal band of ochreous-buff from the sides of the mantle 

 along the scapulars ; a sandy-buff band, not so distinct, along the 

 parapteral feathers and inner secondaries, being broken up by the 



