OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 337 



167. Rallus albiventer. 



Under tail covers white, immaculate : crown, and 

 neck above, rufous : back and wings olive, with trans- 

 verse white bars, edged with black : ears, breast, and 

 under parts, cinereous : chin and belly white : flanks 

 banded. 



Inhabits India. Gallinula gularis ? Gray, (plate 

 unpublished.) 



Total length 8i inches ; bill, gape \-^^; wings 5; tarsus 

 Ij^g; middle toe and claw 1^ ; hinder ditto |. I do not think 

 this is the G. gularis of Latham, whose description does not 

 appear to me to be applicable. It approaches very near to R. 

 bracht/piis by its rufous crown and nape ; but is known at once 

 by its immaculate tail covers : the flanks only are banded 

 with black and white ; the belly and vent being almost pure 

 white. 



168. Gallinula immaculata. 



Unspotted : crown and nape blackish cinereous, 

 changing to chestnut brown on the neck, back, and wing 

 covers, and to black -on the tail : throat and under 

 plumage uniform cinereous : under tail covers black, 

 banded with white. 



Inhabits Tasmania. Discovered by Adol. W. H. 

 Humphrey, Esq. Mus. Nost. 



Total length about 6\ inches ; bill, front -^ ; wings 3^ ; 

 tarsus hardly 1 ; middle toe and claw 1-3^; hind ditto i. Re- 

 markable for having no white upon the chin (which is nearly 

 as dark as the throat), or any bands on the flanks : the edges of 

 the shoulders are white : the deep chestnut of the neck blends 

 into the dark cinereous of the head, and becomes nearly black as 

 it approaches the tail : bill black : legs pale, perhaps red. The 

 inner toe is slightly shorter than the outer. 



16'9. Gallinula curvirostra. 



Culmen and commissure of the bill curved. Plumage, 

 above, olive, striped with black ; beneath, cinereous : 

 chin white : flanks and thighs brown, banded with 

 whitish. 



Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. 



