240 THE BANDED CRAKE.
The legs (Holdsworth says) are leaden-brown ; the irldes
red-brown; ("carmine with an inner circle of yellow," Layard
says); bill dusk-y above, green below.
Tmc PLATE represents both sexes of this species fairly, although
the legs and feet are perhaps wrongly coloured. It should
be noted, because the shade makes this doubtful, that in the
male (the right hand figure) the entire crown, nape and back
of the neck are a rich chestnut, while in the female (the flying
bird) these parts are, as shown in the plate, unicolorous with the
back.
