. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 248 GRUIFORMES during both day and night. Companies are described by Mr. Hudson as meeting to dance about with expanded wings and open ^ Somewhat similar in colour to certain members of the last genus is Megacrex inepta of South New Guinea, one of the largest Eails known, which is usually seen running swiftly along water- courses ; while the black Habroptila wallacii of Halmahera loves forests. The curious Himantornis liaematopus of West Africa is brown, with black and rufous mottlings above, whitish throat, stout green and black bill, and red f
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 248 GRUIFORMES during both day and night. Companies are described by Mr. Hudson as meeting to dance about with expanded wings and open ^ Somewhat similar in colour to certain members of the last genus is Megacrex inepta of South New Guinea, one of the largest Eails known, which is usually seen running swiftly along water- courses ; while the black Habroptila wallacii of Halmahera loves forests. The curious Himantornis liaematopus of West Africa is brown, with black and rufous mottlings above, whitish throat, stout green and black bill, and red feet. Dryolimnas cuvieri of Madagascar, Mauritius, and Aldabra Island, and Canirallus kiolo'ides of the first-named and West Africa must be briefly mentioned, as must Ballina reaching from India to North-East Australia, which has half a dozen small brown species, with chestnut on the head and chest, and black and white barring below. Crex prate7isis, the widely-ranging Corn-Crake or Land-Eail, extends from most of Europe to the north of Central Asia, winter- ing in Africa, and occurring accidentally in North America, or even Greenland and Australia. Zapornia parva, the Little Crake, Porzana maruetta, the Spotted Crake, and P. hailloni, Baillon's Crake, are some- w^hat similar British Birds, the two latter of wliich have bred in our islands, P. maru- etta still doing so in some districts. This species is brownish-olive with white flecks above and below, grey belly, and flanks showing black and white bars. Of its dozen congeners, covering nearly the whole globe, P. Carolina, the Sora Eail of North America, is particularly well-known. In the Ethiopian genus Corethrura, ex- tending to Madagascar, the males are blackish, spotted or streaked with white, and have fine chestnut heads, necks, or even breasts, the female being dusky with rufous mottlings: in Eallicula of New Guinea the chestnut extends over most of the body. Porzanida ^ Argentine Ornithology, ii. London, 1889, p. Fi
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