33o APPENDIX. 



a. <$,b. $ Lion Camp, Crocodile River, July 1873. Iris hazel; 

 legs red. 



c. $ Gokwe River, October 16, 1873. Iris dark hazel. 



176. Francolinus Afer (P. L. S. Mull.) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 595. Grey- 



winged Francolin. 

 a, b. $ Retief's Drift, Vaal River, June 11, 1873. Iris hazel. 



177. Coturnix coturnix (L.) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 603. Coturnix dac- 



tylisonans, Temm. ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, 

 App. p. 324 (1881). Common Quail. 

 a. $ High Veldt, Transvaal, December 1873. Iris hazel. 



178. Coturnix Delegorguei (Delegorgue) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, 



p. 605. Harlequin-Quail. 



a. Gubuluwayo, December 26, 1873. Native name, " Segwatha." 1 

 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. $ Gubuluwayo, January 3, 1874. Iris rich brown ; bill 

 black ; legs and feet salmon-colour. 



Family TuRNICID^E. 



179. Turnix LEPURANA (Smith); Sharpe, t. c. p. 608. Kurrichaine 

 Hemipode. 



a. Not labelled. 



Order GERANOMORPH^. 

 Family RALLID.E. 



180. Crex.crex (L.) ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 611. Crex ftratensis, Bechst. ; 



Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. p. 324(1881). 



Corn-Crake. 

 a. $ (testes slightly developed). Tati ; shot in long grass, March 

 22, 1874. Iris red -brown ; skin round eye brick -red ; bill violet ; 

 legs pale flesh -colour. Stomach muscular, containing stones and 

 remains of large insects. 



181. Crex egregia (Peters); Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 612. Ortygo- 



metra egregia (Peters) ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, 



App. p. 324 (1881). Greater African Crake. 

 a. Gubuluwayo ; 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. 



1 [The h in this word expresses an accented or roughened t ; the combination must not be 

 pronounced like th in that. — Ed.] 



