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Birds of Gambia. 
dy brown. Total length 20 inches of which the tail measures 16. Range : 
The Himalayas. 
FoEMosAN Blue-Pie (Urocissa ccerulea). 
Description : General body colour rich azure-blue, the quills with 
black inner webs and white tips, secondaries with white terminal bars,- up- 
per tail-coverts azure-blue, passing into blue-grey near the black tips ; tail 
rich blue broadly tipped with white, all, save the two long central feathers, 
having a broad black band above the white tips ; bill bright red with paler 
tip ; legs and feet red ; iris ruddy-brown. Total length 22 inches, of which 
the tail measures ISj, Raitye : Confined to Formosa, 
A most fascinating genus, and for those having several 
enclosures, one of them could be put to no better use than 
housing some of the rarer Pies, Jays, and Crows. 
Birds of Gambia. 
By E. Hopkinson, D.S.O., M.A., M.B. 
Continued from, page 270. 
RALLID^. 
Limnocorax my<er. BLACK RAIL. 
Bangle. Tropical Africa, Madeira. {H.L.) 
A small black Moorhen, about half the size of ours at home, 
which is frequently seen in pairs on Uie mud along tba river or on 
the swamps. Its plumagie is entirely black with red legs, green Dill 
ana red iiides. 
Sarothura pulclira. RUFOUS-HEADED RAIL. 
Range. Senegambia to Congo, Equatorial Africa. (H.L.^ 
A brown -black bii-a with rufous head and neck. 
'Crex egregia. AFRICAN CRAKE. 
Range. Tropical Africa. (R.L.) 
' 'live-brown above, the feathers with dark centres; "below 
barred with black and white. 
Gallinula angulata. LESSER MOORHEN. 
Range. Tropical Africa. (H.L.) 
A small edition of the English Moorhen. 
These three Rails are known to occur in the Gambia and 
may be common, 'but being g'reat adepts at concealment, like aJl 
Rails, and frequenting leed-grown swamps and other similar haunts, 
one neea not wonder that they are not oftjen seen, and as far as f know 
I have only seen an occasi<jnal example of the third species, the 
Moorhen. 
Porphyria alleni. ALLEN'S PURPLE GALLINDLE. 
Range. Tropical Africa, Madagascar, South Europe occasion- 
ally, Canaries. (R.L.) 
I once brought home one of these Blue Gallinules alive, but 
have never seen anotlier here and do not think that my bird was 
actually captured in the Gambia, 'but the rajige includes this Colony. 
