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with white ; back, wings, and tail spotted and streaked with 

 the same colour ; abdomen white ; flanks strongly barred 

 with brown ; under tail-coverts buff ; beak yellow, greenish 

 at the tip, and shading into scarlet towards the base of the 

 upper mandible ; legs olive ; irides brown. 



Entire length 8"5 inches ; culraen 0-8 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4-7 ; tarsus IS. 



Fig. Gould. B. of Eur. pi. 843. 



289. PoRZANA PYGM^A (Naum.). Baillon's Crake. 



I have no other authority than that of Riippcll for in- 

 cluding the present species among the birds of Egypt. 



Upper parts, including the wings and tail, olive-brown ; 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts marked with oval and 

 triangular white spots surrounded with black, and some of 

 them having a black spot in the centre ; outer edge of the 

 first primary white ; sides of the head, throat, chest, and 

 abdomen bluish slate-colour; flanks, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts black, transversely barred with white ; beak olive ; 

 legs pinkish brown ; irides red. 



Entire length 05 inches; culmen 0-7; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4 ; tarsus 1 • 1 . 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 344. 



290. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.). Moor-Hen. 



The Moor-Hen is very plentiful in some parts of Lower 

 Egypt and the Fayoom, but I have not met with it clse- 



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