324 APPENDIX. 
178. COTURNIX DACTYLISONANS, Temm. : Layard, /. c. p. 274. 
Common Quail. 
a. $ High Veldt, Transvaal, December 1873. Iris hazel. 
179. COTURNix Delegorguei, Delegorgue : C. hish-iotnca, Hartl. : 
Layard, /. c. p. 275. Harlequin Quail. 
a. Gubuleweyo, December 26, 1873. Native name "Seguatha." 
Iris rich brown ; bill black ; legs pale flesh-colour. Does not lie well 
to a dog, but runs rapidly, and at last rises. 
b. $ , c. ? Gubuleweyo, January 3, 1874. Iris rich brown; bill 
black ; legs and feet salmon-colour. 
Order ORALLY. 
Family Rallid^. 
180. Parra CAPENSIS, Smith : Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld., 
p. 330. Lesser African Jacana. 
a. Not labelled. 
181. PoRPHYRis Alleni, Thoms. : Gurney, /. c. p. 327. Allen's 
Blue Water-hen. 
a. Not labelled. 
182. Fulica cristata (Gm.) : Gurney,/. c. p. 327. Rufous-knobbed 
Coot. 
a. Transvaal, 1873. 
183. Gallinula angulata, Sund. : Gurney, A c. p. 321. South 
African Moor-hen. 
a. ^ Dry River ; killed by the boys with sticks, February 27, 
1874. Iris crimson ; a narrow circle of tawny yellow within the iris, 
near the outside ; bill crimson and yellow ; legs greenish yellow. 
Vegetable matter in stomach. 
b. $ Tibakai's Vlei, December 19, 1874. Iris pale crimson ; bill 
yellow, scarlet stripe on top of upper mandible, under one tipped with 
scarlet ; legs pale yellowish brown ; thighs pale yellow, tinged with 
brown. Gravel and vegetable matter in stomach. 
184. Ortygometra EGREGIA (Peters) : Finsch and Hartl., Vog. Ost- 
afr.f p. 778. Peters's Crake. 
a. Gubuleweyo ; shot in marsh by spruit, December 26, 1873. 
Iris crimson-lake ; skin round iris vermilion ; lower part of base of 
upper mandible and whole of base of lower mandible magenta, of a 
lilac tinge ; upper part of upper mandible dark slate-colour, lower 
part of it near tip lighter slate-colour, tip of lower mandible whitish ; 
legs dusky flesh-colour, 
185. Crex pratensis, Bechstein. Ortygometra arx (Gm.) : Layard, 
B. S. Afr., p. 338. Corn-crake. 
