440 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



910 ter.— Porzana cinerea, Fieill. 



" Rallus, supra fuscus gilvo mixtus, subtus pallidior gula 

 albida, capite supra nigricante, utrinque strigis duabus al&s. — 

 Longitudo 8*5 poll/' — Horsfield. 



" Above,light brown; beneath white; crown and neck cinere- 

 ous ; lores black ; before the eye, and beneath the ear, are 

 two white stripes. 



■>■ Inhabits India. Mus. nost. 



" Size small. Total length, 7*5 inches ; bill, base, 0'8 ; gape, 

 0*7 ; wing, 02* ; tarsus, 1 ; middle-toe and claw, 1*6 ; hind 

 ditto, Ol 5. A typical and elegant species. Ears and sides 

 of the neck light cinereous ; above the former a clear white 

 stripe ; crown nearly black ; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 fawn colour ; from the chin to the vent pure white ; bill and 

 legs pale/' — Swains. 



910 quat.— Orex pratensis, Bechst. 



Plumage of the tipper parts dull yellowish red, streaked with 

 brownish black ; wing -coverts light red ; sides of the head grey ; 

 lower parts pale reddish; lower wing-coverts } axillaries, and 

 aides, light red, barred with white. 



The bill is light brown ; the lower mandible whitish at the 

 end ; the iris is light hazel ; the feet bluish flesh colour ; 

 the upper parts are light yellowish brown, each feather marked 

 with an oblong central spot of brownish-black, and laterally 

 tinged with grey ; the wing-coverts are light red, some of 

 them imperfectly barred with white ; a broad band, of ash 

 grey passes over and behind the eye and ear, and the cheeks 

 are tinged with the same ; the face, forepart and sides of the 

 neck are light yellowish brown, tinged with grey ; the sides 

 and breast barred with light red and white ; the lower wing- 

 coverts and axillar feathers light red ; the chin and abdomen 

 brownish white ; quills and primary coverts light brown, their 

 outer webs tinged with light red ; the edge of the wing and 

 outer web of the first outer feather and first quill reddish 

 white; the inner secondaries and tail-feathers like the back. 



Length to end of tail, 10*75 inches ; extent of wings, 18 ; 

 wing from flexure, 6 ; tail, 2 ; bill along the ridge, 0'9 1 ; along 

 the edge of lower mandible, 1*08; tarsus, 1*58. 



Female. — The female is similar to the male. 



Length to end of tail, 10^ ; extent of wings, 17£. — MacgiU 

 livray, Vol. IV., 527. 



* This is nonsense, but it is as it stands in original. 



