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and is quite distinct, being large, dark, with no flank 

 stripes or only the merest indications, and having the legs 

 dark red. 



37. Fulica cristata. Crested Coot. 



FuUca cristata Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, p. 704 : 

 Madagascar. 



a, b. 9 ad. & imm. Lake Naivasha, 6700 ft. Dec. 3 

 & 6 



Total length in flesh: ad. 17 inches ; imra. 17| inches. 

 Wing: ad. 129 mm.; imm. 193 mm. Weight of immatui'e : 

 \\ lbs. 



Both are in good dress. The immature, besides having 

 browner flight- feathers, has the shield and knobs on the 

 head considerably smaller. 



In the National Collection there is only one specimen 

 from the type locality, an immature bird, which agrees 

 perfectly with birds of the same age from the mainland of 

 Africa. 



\_Ad. Irides red ; bill bluish white, crown white, 

 " horns ^^ red; legs and toes plumbeous. 1mm. Irides 

 brown ; bill bluish horn ; legs and toes plumbeous. 

 Abundant.] 



38. Poliocephalus ruficollis capensis. African Little 

 Grebe. 



Podiceps capensis Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) i. 

 1881, p. 252: South Africa. 



a,b.S ? ad. Lake Naivasha, 6700 ft. Dec. 4. 



Total length in flesh : ^ 10^ inches; ? 9^ inches. Wing: 

 (J 103 mm. ; ? 91 mm. 



The male is in full summer dress and the female is 

 moulting on the chest and may not be fully adult, as the 

 chestnut of the neck and the black of the chin and throat 

 are intermixed with white. 



These specimens- agree quite well with others from the 

 type locality. 



[Irides brown ; bill black, greenish horn in ? , bare skin 



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