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tiny wliite spots on the wing-coverts and inner secondaries, and liave 

 the lower abdomen almost pure wliite. This peculiar character is not 

 easily explained as a sij^n of age or sex, but it is probable that the 

 white spots disappear with age, as they vary in number in all the speci- 

 mens in the Museum. The type specimen seems not to have been 

 tiansferred with the rest of the Zoological Society's Collection.*' 

 (Sharpe.) 



ASCERTAIXEU KANtJE OF THE GENTS PORZAXA, VIEILLOT, IX THE liALAPACOS ARCHI- 

 PELAGO. 



1. Porzana spilonoia (Gould). 



2. Vorzanii <ndai)a<joensis, Sharpe. ("Galapagos.") 



PORZANA GALAPAGOENSIS, Sharpe. 



Porzana spiloiiota (nee Orlynometra .'^pilonota, Gould), Salvin, Traus. Zool. Sor., 



IX, Pt. IX, 1876, p. -.00 (part). 

 Porzana oalapagoensis, Siiahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis., XXIII, 1894, p. 113 (Gal- 

 apagos ; British Museum). 

 Specinc rharavters.—''Adn\t male: Similar to 0. [Porzana] tabuensis, 

 but distinguished by the absence of the white edge to the first primary 



