. The birds of South Africa. Birds. EALLID^ OETYGOMETEA 251 674. Ortygometra pusilla. Baillon's Crake. Eallus pusillus, Pall. Beis. Buss. Beich. iii, p. 700 (1776). Rallus intermedius, Hermann, Obs. Zool. i, p. 198 (1804). Rallus minutus, Pall. Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. ii, p. 155 (1811). Rallus bailloni, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxviii, p. 548 (1819). Gallinula pygmsea, Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. Eur. Viig. ii, p. 641 (1824). Ortygometra pygmsea, Gurnetj, Ibis, 1865, p. 273 [NatalJ; id. in Andersson's B. Bamaral. p. 317 (1872); Atjres, Ibis, 1873, p. 283, 1874, p. 107. Ortygometra minuta, Layard, B.
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. EALLID^ OETYGOMETEA 251 674. Ortygometra pusilla. Baillon's Crake. Eallus pusillus, Pall. Beis. Buss. Beich. iii, p. 700 (1776). Rallus intermedius, Hermann, Obs. Zool. i, p. 198 (1804). Rallus minutus, Pall. Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. ii, p. 155 (1811). Rallus bailloni, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxviii, p. 548 (1819). Gallinula pygmsea, Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. Eur. Viig. ii, p. 641 (1824). Ortygometra pygmsea, Gurnetj, Ibis, 1865, p. 273 [NatalJ; id. in Andersson's B. Bamaral. p. 317 (1872); Atjres, Ibis, 1873, p. 283, 1874, p. 107. Ortygometra minuta, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 338 (1867). Porzana pygmaea, Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 351. Porzana bailloni, Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 426; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 614 (1884) ; Aijres, Ibis, 1885, p. 346. Porzana intermedia, Shariie, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 103 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 176 (1896). Porzana obscura, Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 1897, p. 191. Ortygometra pusilla obscura, Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 284 (1900).. Fig. 78.—Head of Ortygometra pusilla. x \ Description. Adult.—General colour above rich olive-brown; the feathers of the back and wings with black centres and white spots and frecklings ; rump blackish, also with a few white mark- ings ; primaries ashy-brown, the first with a narrow white border along the outer web ; sides of the face and neck, including the ear- coverts, eyebrows and lores, throat and breast, bluish-slate; abdo- men, flanks and under tail-coverts spotted and banded with white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, with a few white spots. Iris orange to red; bill dark green, darker along the culmen and at the tip ; legs and feet olive. Length 7'25 ; wing 3-5 ; tail 1-75 ; culmen -65; tarsus 1*0. The male in winter (October to March) has a somewhat whiter and paler throat. The young bird is rather more rufous in tone above, the sides of the face and eyebrow are rufous-brown; lores. Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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