348 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Total length 7 inches ; bill, gape ^ ; wings 4-^ ; tail, be- 

 yond, ^ ; base 2^ ; tarsus f^^ ; middle toe and claw ^ ; hind 

 ditto ^. The white stripes over the eye are very broad behind, 

 and narrow in front, and almost meet at the nape. Upper tail 

 feathers very long. Wing covers with two broad cream white 

 bands ; all the quills edged with the same : bill black ; legs 

 pale. 



200. Gallinula ecaudata. 



Olive : crown^ upper tail covers^ and the whole of 

 the under plumage, deep rufous : sides of the head 

 cinereous : tail feathers olive, nearly obsolete, very soft, 

 almost concealed by the covers. 



Inhabits } Mus. Nost. PI. Enl. 753. } 



Total length 6 inches ; bill, front 13; wings 3^; tarsus 1^; 

 middle toe and claw li; hind ditto ^. The rufous on the 

 under plumage is uniform from the chin to the vent. The tail 

 feathers are exceedingly short, and the covers long, — thus 

 leading to Alecthelia. 



201. Gallinula modesta. 



Upper plumage, and under tail covers, olive brown : 

 beneath, cinereous : chin and part of the throat white. 

 Bill one inch long. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length about 9 inches ; bill, gape 1 j ; wings 4 1| ; 

 tarsus 1-^ ; middle toe and claw 2 ; hind ditto 13. The co- 

 louring is particularly simple. The form is typical, although 

 the upper mandible is more curved than usual. The tail and its 

 covers are like the back : bill green : legs brown. 



202. Gallinula leucosoma. 



Above, hght brown ; beneath, white : crown and neck 

 cinereous : lores black : before the eye, and beneath the 

 ear, are two white stripes. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Size small. Total length 7^ inches; bill, base f^; gape ^;; 

 wings ^ ; tarsus 1 ; middle toe and claw Ifj ; hind ditto ^. A 

 typical and elegant species. Ears, and sides of the neck, light 

 cinereous ; above the former, a clear white stripe : crown nearly 



