618 



BIRDS OF THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO— liTDG WAY. vol.xix. 



Measurements of Neaopelia (jalapagoensis — Continued. 



Family RALLID.^5. 

 Genus PORZANA, Vieillot. 

 Porzana, Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 61. Tyjie, lidlhts porzana, Liuiic'eus. 



Range. — Cosmopolitan. Galapagos Archipelago (two peculiar spe- 

 cies). 



PORZANA SPILONOTA (Gould). 



Zapornia spilonoia, (iOULD, Zool. Voy. Beaj;jle, III, Birds, 1841, p. 132, pi. xlix 

 ("Galapagos Archipelago"'). 



Ortyfinmetra spilonoia, Gray, List Gralla- Brit. Mas., 1844, p. 119. 



Porzana xpilonota, Sclatek and Salvix, Proc. Zool. .Soc, 1868, p. 456; 1870, 



p. 323 (Indefatigable Island).— S.alvin, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 1876, 



p. 500 (.James and Indefatigable islands). 

 Crccisciin spilonotus, Shahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.. XXIII, 1894. p. 137 (James and 



Indefatigable i.slau(ls). 



Range. — Galapagos Arcliii)elago: Indefatigable Island (Habel); 

 James Island (Darwin, fide Salviu). 



S2)eci fie characters. — "Adult male: Uniform cliocoliite brown, includ- 

 ing tlie wings; lower back, rump, and tail blacicer ; (luills dusky brown, 

 externally cliocolate like the back; head all round an«l under surface 

 of the body dark slaty gray, the lores and sides of face blackish ; sides 

 of body and Hanks chocolate brown; under tail-coverts blackish with 

 white bars; 'bill black, the lower mandible blackisii brown; feet olive- 

 brown; iris red' (A. Ilabel). Total length, 4..") inches; culmen, 0.7; 

 wing, 2.~~)- tail, 0.0; tarsus, 0.8; middle toe and claw, 1.1. 



"The mah^ described is from Indefatigable Island, and three other 

 specimens from the same island in the Salvin-Godmau collection have 



'The ty))o specimen has :ip])arently been lost. 



