584- AVES. 



RynchcBa Capensis. — The Cape Snipe. Plate xxxv. fig. 8. Reddisli.brown 

 above, variegated with difterent streaks of ash-colour, black, and brown ; 

 breast, abdomen, and crissum, white; bill and legs dusky. Ten inches long 

 Inhabits the Cape. 



Genus 30.— EURYPYGA.— /HiVer. 



Generic Character. — Bill long, hard, straight, compressed, and tumid at 

 the tip ; nasal furrow deep ; sides of the lower mandible sulcated ; tip of 

 upper mandible with a small notch ; nostrils basal, linear, oblong ; legs 

 long, tibia partly naked ; tarsus longer than the intermediate toe ; feet with 

 three anterior toes, the external one united by a membrane the length of 

 first joint, the internal free; hallux articulated on the tarsus, long, and the 

 point resting on the ground ; wings of medium length ; first and fourtli 

 quills longest. 



Eurypyga Helios. — The Variegated Helias. Plate xxxv. fig. 9. Head 

 gray ; neck ferruginous, throat white ; back, breast, tail, and scapulars 

 gray, transversely clouded and barred with black and gray ; wings varie- 

 gated with ochre-yellow, gray, green, and scarlet; bill and legs dusky. 

 Fifteen inches lung. Inhabits Guiana. 



Genus 31.— RALLUS. — LimiiEus. 



Generic Character. — BUI somewhat longer than the head, slender, and 

 slightly arcuated, or straight in some species, compressed at the base, cylin. 

 drical at the tip ; upper mandible grooved ; nostrils situated a little remote 

 from the base, placed in the furrow, and half closed by a membrane ; legs 

 long, strong, tibia partly naked ; three anterior toes long, and completely 

 divided; hallux short, articulated on the tarsus, and the point touching the 

 ground; wings concave, rounded; first quill same length as the fifth ; the 

 third and fourth the longest of the whole. 



Rallus aquaticus. — The Water Rail. Plate xlii*. fig. !• Described, vol. iii. 

 p. 3o8. 



Genm 32.— GALLINULA.— .S/-mo«. 



Generic Character.— 'EiW shorter than the head, compressed, conical, 

 deeper than broad at the base ; ridge resting on the forehead, and dilated 

 into a naked plate in some species ; tips of mandibles compressed, and (jf 

 equal length, tlie upper one a little curved, the lower one forming an angle ; 

 nostrils remote from the base, lateral, longitudinal, half closed by a mem- 

 brane, which clothes the nasal furrow ; legs long ; tibia partly naked ; feet 

 with three long lateral toes, completely divided, and provided with a narrow 

 edging ; hallux articulated on the tarsus, its point touching the ground. 



Section 1. — Ridge of the bill extending on the forehead, but not dilated. 



Gallinula crex.—Tbe Land Rail- Plate xliv. fig. 9. Described, rol. iii. p. 

 358. 



Section II.^Ridge of upper mandible dilated into a plate on the forehead. 



Gallinula Chloropus. — The Water Hen. Plate xlv. fig. 2. Described, 

 vol. iii. p. 358. 



Genus 33— PARRA. — Lintueus. 



Generic Characler.—B'M as long as the bead ; straight, slender, and con* 



