384 GALLO-GRALL^. 



Ortygometra Carolina. 



Rallus caroliuus, Linna?us, S3'st. Nat. i. p. 263 (1766~). 

 Porzana Carolina, A. 0. U. Check-list N. Am. B. p. 142 (188G). 



The Carolina Crake. 



Ilah. North America to the West Indies and Northern South 

 America. 



1920. Sternum. S. S. 1299. 



Presented hi/ the Sriuthsonhin Institution. 



Ortygometra fluminea. 



Porzana flaminea, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 139 ; id. 

 Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 339 (1865). 



The Spotted Water-Crake. 



Ilah. Southern Australia and Tasmania. 



1921. Sternum of male, with slioulder-girdle. From Palmer, 



N. S. Wales (7;;. P. Ramsay). S. S. 938. 



Presented h;j P. L. Sdater, Es(j., F.R.S, 



Family PSOPHIID^*. 



[Cf. Secbohm, Classif. B. p. 40 ; Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., Birds, 



p. 123.] 



A. Palate schizoonathous. 



B. Nasals holorhiual. 



C. Dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous. 



D. Episternal process not perforated to receive the slernal ends 



of the coracoids. 



E. Posterior process of the ilia separated sufficiently to show a 



broad sacrum. 



F. Sternum without a notch on the posterior margin. 



G. Neck with long lateral bare tracts. 



* = Suborder Psoplnte, Sharpe, Review, p. 74. 



