. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 244 EALLIDJE EALLUS 670. Ballus cserulescens. Kaffir Rail. Eallus caerulesoens, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 716 (1788); GiiU, K. Vet. AJcad. Handl. StocMi. ii, no. 10, p. 54 (1858) [Knysna and Oudt- shoorn] ; Layarcl, B. 8. Afr. p. 337 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 471 ; id. in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 316 (1872); Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 283, 1874, p. 107, 1877, p. 351; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, pp. 183, 213 ; Holub d Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 295 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 610 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 25 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. i. p.
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 244 EALLIDJE EALLUS 670. Ballus cserulescens. Kaffir Rail. Eallus caerulesoens, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 716 (1788); GiiU, K. Vet. AJcad. Handl. StocMi. ii, no. 10, p. 54 (1858) [Knysna and Oudt- shoorn] ; Layarcl, B. 8. Afr. p. 337 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 471 ; id. in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 316 (1872); Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 283, 1874, p. 107, 1877, p. 351; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, pp. 183, 213 ; Holub d Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 295 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 610 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 25 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. i. p. 175 (1896); Woodivard Bros., Natal B., p. 168 (1899); Beichenow, Vbg. Afr. i, p. 275 (1900). Eallus aquatious {neo Linn.), Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 249 [Natal], 1868, p. 261 [Damaraland]. Description. Adult.—General colour above dark brown, darkest on the wings and tail and becoming a dark slaty-black on the crown ; sides of the face, neck and breast dark slaty-blue, becoming white on the throat; flanks, thighs and abdomen black, trans- versely banded with narrow bars of white; under tail-coverts white; axillaries and under wing-coverts black, barred and mottled with S^ Pig. 76.—Head of Ballus ccBrulescens. x \\ Iris red brown to blood red ; bill and feet bright red. Length 10-5; wing 4-20 ; tail 1-5 ; ; tarsus 1-5. The young bird is browner than the adult, the sides of the neck and breast are brown, the chin and centre of the breast whitish tinged with rufous brown; the abdomen, flanks and under tail- coverts are brown, irregularly barred with rufous brown ; iris dusky tawny, bill dusky-brown mclining to reddish about the tip and nostrils, legs dull brown. Distribution.—Though nowhere very common, this Bail is widely spread over the greater part of South Africa and extends beyond our limits to southern Angola, Nyasaland and German East Africa ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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