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black : flanks, and under tail covers, fawn colour ; from the 

 chin to the vent pure white : bill and legs pale. 



203. Gallinula ruficolUs. 



Crown and sides of the head^ throat, and breast, 

 cinereous : neck, above, clear rufous : under plumage 

 white : flanks and tail covers banded with black and 

 white : wing covers with narrow whitish bands. 



Inhabits America. Andersonian Museum of Glasgow. 



Total length about 5 inches ; bill, gape f^ ; front -^ ; wings 3 ; 

 tarsus 1; middle claw l-j^^; hinder ditto 5; outer 1^. Nearly 

 an inch shorter than G. albifrons. No, 171. ; from which it is 

 further distinguished by the under tail covers being banded 

 with black upon a whitish ground, instead of being deep 

 rufous : the lower flanks, and the upper tail covers, are crossed 

 in the same way ; but the sides of the body are banded with 

 white upon a black ground : ears and sides of the head pale 

 cinereous : all the under plumage is white, having the sides 

 cinereous ; the white only begins at the base of the lower 

 mandible. 



204. (Edicnemus Americanus. 



Sides of the crown with a black stripe : quills black- 

 ish brown, with a white external band at the base of 

 the sixth, seventh, and eighth. Tarsus four inches long. 



Interior of Guiana. Mr. Schoraburgh. 



Total length 17 inches'; bill, front 1^; gape 2^^; wings 9 ; 

 tail, base 5. General colour of the other species ; but all the 

 wing covers are like the back ; and the only external white on 

 the wings are the bases of the sixth, seventh, and eighth quills : 

 sides of the head white, and of the crown and nape black. 



205. (Edicnemus recurvirostris. 



Grey and unstriped: body, beneath, white : ears, stripe 

 at the gape, and sides of the crown, black : shoulder 

 covers black. Culmen of the bill very straight : gonys 

 considerably curved upwards. 



Inhabits Ava. Andersonian Museum. 



Total length about 20 inches ; bill, gape 3,^^ : from the front 

 2^ ; wings 10 ; tail, base 4i ; tarsus 3{ ; middle toe and claw 1^ ; 

 outer U; inner 1^; naked space above the tarsus 1^^. A 



