616 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
ease and swiftness.” Senor Anchicta has found it at Caconda 
where it is not common; it is called by the natives rig ee 
in imitation of its cry. 
Male.—Head, neck, breast, and shoulders, chestnut; body bine 
streaked with white; plumage very lax. Length, 6” 6”; wing, 3 
tail, 2”. The female is blackish-brown, minutely spotted with light. 
buff spots; chin white; centre of breast, dirty-buff. 
Fig. Smith, Il. Zool. 8. Afr., Aves, pl. 20. 
594, CoRETHRURA RUPICOLLIS, Gray. Jardine’s Crake. 
Of this rare little Rail we have seen but few specimens. The 
female has been described as a distinct species by Mr. Swainson. 
His type specimen is in the Cambridge Museum. Mr. Windham 
obtained it in Victoria County, Natal: he describes its flight 
as very low and awkward, and only sustained for a_ short 
distance. It frequents long grass. Mr. L. C. Layard sent us a 
female caught on her eggs also transmitted, four in number, pure 
white, rather sharply pointed at the thin end. They were taken 
at Grootevadersbosch. Mr. G. Rex also obtained it at the 
Knysna, and one specimen fell to our own gun high up among 
some rocks, among the French Hoek Mountains, June 11/th, 
1869. At Port Elizabeth Mr. Rickard informs us he has seen 
several, but all females, and at Hast London also one female was 
procured. It is rare near Kingwilliamstown, according to Captain 
Trevelyan, but he thinks that these small Rails are much over- 
looked. 
Male.—Head, posterior portion of neck and tail, bright-rufous, 
chin white; the rest of the body dark grey-brown, variegated with 
numerous white stripes; plumage very lax. Length, 5” 6’; 
wing, 2” 9”; tail, 1” 8”. 
Female——Above, blackish, varied with numerous undulated, 
transverse lines of light fulvous-brown, which assume the appearance 
of stripes on the head and neck; beneath whitish, with black stripes 
on the neck and breast, and bands on the flanks and body; tail and 
tail-coverts black ; banded with ferruginous lines. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pl. 21. 
595. CoruRNicors AYRESII, Gurney. , Ayres’ Crake. 
This is a very interesting discovery of Mr. Ayres’. Hitherto only 
