GALLICREX. 177 



Gallicrex cristata, Blyth, Cat. p. 283; Jcrdon, B. I. iii, p. 716; 



Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 171 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, 



p. 142 ; Adam, S. F. i, p. 397 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. 



p. 161; Blanford, S. F. v, p. 247; Butler, S. F. vii, p. 187; 



Simson, Ibis, 18S2, p. 94 ; Littledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. v, 



p. 416; Lester, op. cit. xi, p. 321. 

 Gallicrex cinerea, W olden, Ibis, 1873, p. 317 ; Hume, N. fy E. p. 596 ; 



Hume, S. F. ii, p. 300 ; Cripps, ibid. p. 531 ; Hume $ Oates, S. F. 



iii, p. 187; Oates, 8. F. v, p. 165; Wardl. Rams. Ibis 1877, 



p. 471 ; Hume fy Dav. 8. F. vi, p. 466; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 229 ; 



Cripps, ibid. p. 305 ; Hume, Cat. no. 904 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. 



p. 791 ; Barnes, S. F. x, p. 167 ; id. Birds Bom. p. 367 ; id. Jour. 



Bom. N. H. Soc. vi, p. 137, fig. 904 (egg) ; Oates, B. B. ii, 



p. 349; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 387; Hume fy 



Cripps, S. F. xi, p. 327 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 183. 



Kora, Kongra, H. &c. ; Ktttala, Cing. in North Ceylon ; Willi- 

 kukulu in South ; Tannir-koli, Tarn. (Ceylon) ; Boun-dote, Burm. 



Fig. 38. Head of Gr. cinereus. |. 



Coloration. Males in summer plumage have the head, neck, 

 and lower parts black, more or less tinged with grey, and 

 generally with some white mixed on the abdomen ; back, rump, 

 scapulars, and upper surface of wings blackish brown with ashy- 

 grey borders to the back-feathers, scapulars, and some of the 

 coverts, and light brown borders elsewhere; quills and tail- 

 feathers blackish brown ; white on the edge of the wing and on 

 the outer web of the 1st primary; under tail-coverts buffy white 

 with dark brown bars. In autumn the male moults into the 

 female garb, which it wears in winter, the breeding-plumage being 

 reassumed in spring, by change of colour in the feathers according 

 to Blyth. 



Females are dark brown above, with pale brown edges to the 

 feathers except on the crown ; sides of head and neck lighter 

 brown ; lower parts light brown to pale buff, with rather wavy 

 dark brown cross-bars ; the chin, throat, and middle of the 

 abdomen generally unbarred ; wing- and tail-feathers as in male. 



Young birds resemble the female, but the bars on the lower 

 plumage are often indistinct and sometimes wanting. 



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