EALLIDiE. 337 



shorter than the middle toe, and covered with transverse 

 scales ,• toes long and rather slender, the inner toe shorter 

 than the outer, both free at their bases ; the hind toe short 

 and slender ; the claws short, c ompressed, and very acute. 



628. RallUS Super ciliOSUS, Swains., An. in 

 Menag., p. 335. 



Plumage above, brown ; beneath, cinereous ; front with a 

 lateral white stripe before the eye ; chin white ; belly tinged 

 with ferruginous ; flank banded black and white ; lower part 

 of back and tail black ; feet and bill red. Length, 12". 

 Inhabits Soutli Africa, Swain, loc. cit. — Non vidi. 



629. Rallus Coerulescens, Gmei. ; Cuv., Voi. 3. 



p. 402; Shaw, Vol. 12, p. 211; R Gaffer, Forst- 

 Descr. Anim,, p. 50. 



Upper parts of head, neck, and body, reddish-brown ; the 

 chin, fore part of neck and breast, pale slate-colour ; the 

 flanks transversely striped with black and white. Length, 

 8" ; wing, 4i" ; tail, 1". 



This Rail has reached me from several different places in the colony ; 

 but seems to be nowhere plentiful. Mr. Cairncross has sent it from 

 Swellendam; Mr. Jackson from Nel's Poort ; Mr. Arnot from. 

 Colesberg. 



630. Rallus Madagascariensis, Smith, s. Af 



Quar. Jour. 1, p. 80. 



Head and chin grey ; neck, breast, and belly, rusty grey- 

 brown ; back rusty-olive, blotched with black ; vent bai red 

 transversely with reddish white ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 point of bill and upper surface of upper mandible, blackish- 

 brown, the other parts of the bill yellowish. Length, 8^" 

 Inhabits South Africa, teste Dr. A. Smith. — Sed non vidi. 



631. Rallus AquatiCUS, Linn. ; Pl. Enl. 749 ; 



Rallus Sericeus, Leach. ; Scolopax Obscurus, Gmel. ; 



Gould's B. of Eur., PI. 339 ; Bewick's Brit. Birds, p. 1 37. 

 Throat whitish ; sides of head, neck, breast, and belly, 

 ashy lead-colour ; the feathers on the upper parts of the 

 body reddish-brown, with a deep black mark in the centre of 

 each ; flanks black, transversely rayed with white bars ; under 

 tail-coverts white ; bill red, shaded with In-own at the tip ; 

 irides orange. Length about 12". 



Mr. Gurney (Ibis Vol. 1859) quotes this species from Natal. I have 

 not met with it. 



