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AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD ROOK. 



17 Brush Bronzewing Pigeon (Little Bronze), P. elegans, 



A., T Nom. r. sandy 13 



Upper chestnut-brown; breast blue-gray; throat, crown 

 chestnut; bronze wings; f., crown gray. Seeds. 

 1 18 Crested Pigeon (Topknot (e), Crested Bronzewing), 

 1 Ocyphaps lophotes, A. Seeds. Nom. r. inland plains 13 



Upper fawn; crown, under gray; crest black; black bars 

 on wings; tail tipped white; eyes orange; f., sim. 

 1 19 Wonga-Wonga Pigeon, Leucosarcia melanoleuca, E.A. 

 1 Seeds, fallen fruits. Stat. r. coast-, (hillside-) brushes 15 



Back, breast slaty-gray; wings brown; crown, throat, 

 abdomen white; sides spotted black; f., sim. 

 F. 19. Gouridae, Crowned Pigeons, 8 sp. A. (N.G.). 

 P. 20. Didunculidac, Tooth-billed Pigeons, 1 sp. A. (Samoa). 

 F. 21. Opisthocomidae, Hoactzin, 1 sp. Nl. 



ORDER V. — RALLIFORMES. 



F. 22. RALLIDAE (16), RAILS, 204 sp.— 68(60) A., 37(18)0., 



18(0)P., 37(24)E., 17(7)Nc, 72(65)N1. 

 4 20 Slate-breasted Rail (Short-toed), Lewin Water-Rail, 

 17 Eulabeornis (Hypotaenidia) brachypus, A.. T., Auck- 



land Is. =vt. Eur. Water-Rail. Stat. r. rivers, lagoons 8.5 

 Upper blackish striped olive; wings, flanks, abdomen 

 barred black, white; throat, breast, slate-gray; f., duller. 

 31*Pectoral Rail, Landrail, E. philippincnsis, Malay Arch, 

 to A., N.Z., Pac. Is. =vt. Eur. Corn-Crake (Land- 

 rail) ; f., young sim. Insects, grass. Mig. c. grassy 10.5 

 Upper brown spotted white; under finely-barred black; 

 white; sandy-buff bar on chest; light stripe above eye, 

 4 22*Australian Spotted Crake, Water-Crake, Porzana 

 1 7 flummea, A. =vt. Eur. Spotted Crake. Stat. r. rivers 7 



Upper dark-brown, spotted white; abdomen, flanks black- 

 ish barred white; breast gray; swims; f.,sim. Insects. 



