76 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



and space round the eye grey, the lower back and rump blackish, 

 and the much deeper coloured chestnut on the sides of the breast. 



Breeding- season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range conjined to British Guiana. Bartica, Bonasika River 

 (JMcConnell collection^ , 



Ilahils. Unrecorded. 



45. Creciscus exilis. 



Temminck's Crake. 



Creciscus exilis (Temm.), PI. Col. v. pi. 523, 1831 (Peru) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 138, 1891: ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 24, no. 24o, 1912. 



Adult mcde. Back brown, wings also brown, some of the feathers 

 barred and tipped with white, upper tail-coverts also barred and 

 tipped with white ; tail blackish brown ; a chestnut band on the 

 hind-neck ; crown of head dark slate-colour ; sides of face and 

 breast slate-grey ; throat and middle of abdomen white ; axillaries, 

 sides o£ the body and under tail-coverts black barred with white, 

 tinged with buff on the lower flanks ; under wino-coverts whitish. 



Total length loO mm., culmen IG, wing lb, tail 1)3, tarsus 23, 

 middle toe and claw 33. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. ^Ving 71 mm. 



The male bird described was collected on the Bonasika River. 



Young. General colour black, with brown on the wings, throat 

 and middle of breast whitish, and the under wing-coverts for the 

 most part white. This example was obtained on the Abary River 

 in September 1907. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Bonasika River, Abary River 

 (^McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Trinidad, North Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus GALLINULA Brisson. 

 G(dlimda Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 3, 17(30. Type G. chloropus (Linn.). 



The chief characters which distino-uish this oenus are the lateral 

 lobes on the sides of the toes and the frontal shield at the base of 

 the forehead ; general colour <ooty-black. 



