GALLINULA DIMIDIATA. — Temm. 
Aves. Plate XX. (Adult Male and Young Female.) 
Mas.— G. capite colloque castaneis ; dorso, alis, (remigibus primariis secundariisque exceptis,) abdomine, 
caudaque nigro-brunneis, striis maculisque albis variegatis ; remigibus brunneo-rubris. Rostro pedi- 
busque pallidd rubro-brunneis. 
Longitudo 65 unc. 
Gallinula DIMIDIATA, Temm., Less. Manuel d’Ornith. tom. 1, page 537, 1831. 
Crex ruficollis, Gray, Zoological Miscellany, page 13, 1831. 
Colour. — Head, neck, and breast bright chestnut — the throat and breast 
lightest ; back, shoulders, wing coverts, quill coverts, tertiary quill feathers, 
belly, upper and under tail coverts, and tail blackish brown, freely va- 
riegated with delicate longitudinal white streaks, and small white dots, the 
latter almost restricted to the quill coverts, the upper and under tail coverts, 
the vent, and the tail. Wherever the variegations consist of longitudinal 
white streaks, there are two on each feather, one on the outer, the other 
on the inner vane; behind the stripes, however, there are generally foui white 
dots, (vide fig. a.) When again the variegations consist of dots, there are from 
two to three of those near the edge ot each vane, at some distance from each 
other, and those of the one vane are situated opposite to the corresponding 
ones of the other, (vide fig. b.') Primary and secondary quill feathers brownish 
red ; bill and legs reddish brown ; the lower mandible faintly edged above 
and below with yellowish brown. 
Form. — Bill short and deep at the base, hence, when viewed laterally it has 
distinctly a triangular shape ; head rounded ; neck rather short and full ; body 
rather robust ; tail full and decomposed; thighs feathered almost to the knee- 
joints ; tarsi rather strong, and the toes long for the size of the bird. Wings 
when folded scarcely reach beyond the base of the tail, the fourth and fifth 
quill feathers equal and longest, the second, third and sixth equal and 
slightly shorter, the first rather shorter than the second ; the whole of the 
feathers loose and rather of a wiry appearance ; tarsi in front coated with 
one row of plates, behind with two rows, of which the commissure is 
behind, bare space above knee-joints also coated with plates; outer and 
middle’ toe with a rudimentary web at their base ; claws slender, slightly 
curved and pointed. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the tip of the bill to the 
point of the tail ® ® 
of the bill from angle of mouth 0 7| 
of the wings when folded 3 
of the tail ^ ® 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of the tarsus 1 0 
the middle toe 1 0^ 
the outer toe 0 10 
the inner toe 0 9| 
the hinder toe 0 3 
