APPEKDIX. 
507 
Order. GEALLiE. 
Family. Maorodactylt. 
Genus. Fulica. 
FoTfliyrio AlUnL (Thomson, in Ann. Nat. Hist., VoL X. 1842.) 
Porphyr, capite, colloque eubcseruleo-nigris ; dorso, alisque, 
subviridi-olavaceis ; uropygio subviridi-olivaceo, tiucto subcse- 
ruleo-nigro ; corpore subtus hyaciuthini-cEeruleo ventre albo j 
rostro rubido ; frontal! creruleo. 
Long. tot. nnc. ; rostri, alaj, ; tarsi, 2 unc. 1 lin. 
Habitat. Iddah, EiverNigei’. 
Head and neck black tinged with blue j back and wings 
greenish oliye tinged with bluish black j beneath the body 
indigo blue ; vent white ; bill reddish ; frontlet bluish ; legs and 
toes reddish. 
This very pretty species was shot among the reeds, on the 
inundated Island opposite Iddah, called by Lander, English 
Island. The plumage of the young bird was brown with a well 
marked black line down the throat, with an arrow-shaped ter- 
mination. Dr. Thomson called it Allenij in honor of his distin- 
guished commander, Captain W. Allen, E.N. It is figured in 
Gray and Mitchell’s Illustrated Genera of Birds, 
Presented to the British Museum. 
Genus. Glareola. 
Glareola cinerea. (Fraser, iuProc. Zool. Soc. Lond., Feb. 1843.) 
Glar. superne cinerea, collo rufo, corpore subtus albo rubro 
tincto, linea nigra pone naz*es oriente sub ociilos et per plumas 
auricularcs albas ducta, caudse tectricibus albis ; rectricibus 
caudze singulis nota nigra versus apicem ; remigum primarum 
pogoniis internis albis ; secundariis albis apicibus nigris j rostri 
ad basim flavo, apice nigro. 
Long. tot. 6^ poll.; rostri, f ; alee, 5^ ; caudoe, 2^; tarsi, 
Habitat. Banks of the mouth of the Nun River, West 
Africa. 
“In some specimens (probably the young,) the black stripe on 
the side of the head, the rufous neck, and the red tinge on the 
under surface, is wanting. 
Presented to the British Museum. 
