T H E PLATE is most unsatisfactory. The birds are neither well
drawn nor correctly coloured. The throat patch is really a rusty
ferruginous ; the back is brown, barred with buff, and exhibits
no trace of the red tinge which the artist has introduced. The
bird has not red eyes ; there is no red about them so far as I
know. The broad pale centres of the feathers of the lower
parts should be less closely set, and should be very pale buffy
white, and these arc really margined first with blackish brown,
then with a clear moderately light brown, all of which is ignored
in the plate. Lastly, there is no reason to believe that these
birds deliberately stand about in the water like waders.
OUR TWO species are the only known ones of the genus.
