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OLIVACEOUS CRAKE. 
the wing-coverts are black, spotted with white : the 
quills are brown : the sides of the body are waved 
black and white : the under parts of the body are 
pale dusky-yellow : the chin and throat nearly white, 
and the belly inclining to ash-colour : the tail is barred 
with black and white : the legs are pale yellow. In- 
habits Cayenne. 
OLIVACEOUS CKAKE. 
(Ortygometra olivacea.) 
Or. corpore supra J'usco-nigricante, penuis marginejusco-olivaceis, 
subtus J'lisco-cinereo, remigibus nigricantibus margine exteriore 
olivaceo. 
Crake with the body above dusky brown^ with the margins of the 
feathers olive-brown, beneath ashy-brown ; the quills dusky, 
their outer margins olivaceous. 
Olivaceous Gallinule. Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp. App. 
Gallinula Foljambii. Mont. Orn. Did. Supp, App. xdlh a Jigure. 
This apparently new species is thus described by 
^lontagu: " Length seven inches and a half: breadth 
ten inches and a half : the beak is nearly three quar- 
ters of an inch long, of a greenish-yellow colour, the 
base red : irides and orbits bright red, inclining to 
orange : cheeks and forehead dusky cinereous : sides 
of the neck and throat pale cinereous : breast, belly, 
and thighs plain dark cinereous, or slate colour, like 
the Water Rail, without spots or markings of any 
kind : the back of the head deep olive-brown : hind 
