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most, on each side, are almost entirely pale fawn 

 tinged with rufous ; the others being black, with a 

 rufous edge on that only which is next to the outer- 

 most ; round the ears there is a dark shade which 

 unites to a macular stripe, proceeding from the 

 lower jaw, leaving the middle part of the ears 

 nearly white ; the under plumage, from the chin to 

 the vent, is white, broken only by a number of 

 black spots, nearly round, across the breast ; these 

 spots are placed only on the tip of the feathers ; bill 

 and legs pale. 



Total length, 6^ inches ; bill from the gape, ^ ; 

 wings, 4 ; tail beyond, T 8 <j ; from the base, 2| ; tar- 

 sus, ^ ; hind-claw, ^, in a straight line. 



YELLOW-BELLIED, OR SENEGAL LONG-CLAW. 



Macronyx Jlavigaster 9 SWAINS. 



Above varied with black and brown; beneath fine yellow, 

 with a broad black gorget on the breast ; bill slightly 

 curved, emarginate. 



THE enormously large feet of this genus readily 

 distinguish it from all others in this family, and 

 immediately reminds us of its prototypes in other 

 tribes, as Megapodius, Menura, Rallus, and nearly 

 all the great footed representatives of the rasorial 

 order of birds. Such it truly is in the circle of the 

 AlaudincB. Hitherto the genus has been only known 



