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abdomen, and lesser lower tail coverts strongly and very regularly 

 barred with this same brown ; longest lowest tail coverts, which 

 extend to within an inch of the ends of the longest tail feathers, 

 plain brown, of much the same color as the sides, unbarred and 

 unspotted ; median lower tail coverts, uniform, somewhat paler 

 brown, slightly barred with white towards the tips ; lower surface 

 of the wing (except lesser and some of the median lower coverts, 

 which are dull or light hair brown), glossy satin brown. The 

 entire back and scapulars moderately dark brown, with a greenish 

 tinge toward the tips of the feathers, most conspicuous on the 

 upper back and interscapulary region. The upper tail coverts, 

 more olivaceous, and wanting this greenish tinge ; tail feathers, 

 plain hair brown, albescent towards the tips, and very distinctly, 

 though obsoletely, barred. The entire wings are a warm, but 

 not dark, hair brown, all the feathers becoming slightly paler 

 towards the tips and on the margins of the outer webs. 



This was a male. The females, Tickell tells us, have " the irides 

 straw color ; the chin, throat, and front of the neck, where black 

 in the male, white, with a margin all round of black, which 

 extends a little over the lores, and has the same white outer 

 border as has the black mask of the male, ccetera pares." 



904.— Gallicrex cinereus, Gm. ; cristata, Latham. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " A common bird, generally distributed 

 over all marshy places ; it has a loud, deep, booming call, and is 

 crepuscular in its habits. The stomach is extremely muscular : one 

 I examined contained green rice, rice leaves, and a small shell. 



" A male killed on the 6th June measured : Length, 17; ex- 

 panse, 28 ; tail, from vent, 3*8; wing, 8'5 ; bill, from gape, 1*7 ; 

 tarsus, 3*35. 



" Iris, hazel brown ; eyelids, smoky plumbeous ; frontal shield 

 and base of upper mandible, deep dull red ; horn, pinkish ; the 

 bill, with the above exception, is yellow, there being a red spot 

 at the base of the lower mandible; inside of mouth, flesh color; 

 legs, plumbeous green; claws, horny. 



" They probably breed here in June." 



905.— GaUiimla chloropus, Lin. 



Specimens from Pegu differ in no way from those we have from 

 many parts of the world. 



Mr. Oates says : " This species appears to be common. I shot 

 three birds in one week near my own house." 



907.— GaUiimla phcenicura, Penn. 



Mr. Oates remarks that this is very common in the plains 

 of Upper Pegu. For further remarks in regard to this species, 

 vide Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 300. 



