14 RALLID.E. 



The beak ycllowisli brown, tinged with reddish brown at 

 the base ; the irides dark brown ; top of the head dark 

 brownish black ; checks, sides and back of the neck olive- 

 brown, spotted with white ; back dark olive-brown, each 

 feather black in the centre, and streaked longitudinally with 

 some narrow lines of white ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail-feathers black in the middle, margined with clove-brown, 

 and spotted with white ; wing-coverts olive-brown, spotted 

 with Avhite ; quill-feathers very dark brown ; tertials trans- 

 versely streaked with narrow lines of white ; chin, neck, and 

 breast dark brown, spotted with white ; belly, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts buffy white ; sides and flanks lead-grey, 

 barred with white ; legs and toes greenish yellow ; the claws 

 brown. 



Mr. Selby's description of the young is as follows : upper 

 parts of a deep oil-green, the white dispersed in the form 

 of small spots ; eyebrows deep grey, with numerous white 

 specks ; cheeks, chin, and throat greyish white, with a few 

 darker specks ; lower part of the neck and the breast oil- 

 green, tinged with grey, and with small spots of white ; belly 

 and abdomen greyish white ; quills deep hair-broAvn ; legs 

 deep oil-green, tinged with grey ; bill dirty safFron-yellow at 

 the base, the tip brown. 



The young at its birth is covered with black down ; the 

 beak red at the point and at the base, and encircled at the 

 middle with a band of black. 



The whole length of an adult bird about nine inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the longest quill-feather 

 four inches and a half. 



