374 Dr. A. Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



R. Virginianus. Lesser Clapper Rail. 

 i?. Virginianus, Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill brown on the ridge, yellow on the lower man- 

 dible; legs and feet dusky reddish brown ; irides red; eggs 6 to 

 10, cream colour sprinkled with brownish red and pale purple. 



Dorsal aspect. Line from nostrils to the eye, and a spot below 

 the eye white ; in front of the eye to the angle of the mouth, a 

 subtriangular black space having the orbits for its base, shaded 

 to slate colour on the sides of the crown, cheeks, auriculars, and 

 sides of neck ; crown blackish slate colour ; neck, interscapulary 

 region, scapulars, rump and tail coverts, deep blackish brown, 

 with olivaceous brown edgings ; great and small wing coverts 

 chesnut ; primaries plain dusky ; tail short, rounded, and in colour 

 like the primaries. 



Ventral aspect. Chin white ; sides of the chin, throat, breast, 

 and belly ferruginous; on the sides of the breast tinged with 

 olivaceous, brightest in tint on the breast, and paler on the centre 

 of the belly ; flanks and vent black, with irregular whitish bars ; 

 tail coverts blackish brown, with a subterminal band of white, 

 tipped with dilute ferruginous. 



2nd and 3rd primaries subequal and longest ; 1st equal to the 

 6th ; long scapulars equal to the 5th. Length 9j inches ; alar 

 expanse 12j- inches ; length of bill Ij inch. 



Subdivision 2. Bill shorter than the head, robust, acute at 

 point ; nostrils oblong. 



R. Carolinus. Carolina Rail. 

 Gallinula Carolina of Latham I 

 Gallinula minor of Edwards ! 

 Porzana (JPorzona) Carolina. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill yellow with a blackish tip ; legs and feet yellowish 

 green ; irides reddish hazel ; eggs uncertain. 



Dorsal aspect. Frontlet, space in front of the eye, and centre 

 of the crown blaek ; line over the eye and cheeks ashy ; auricu- 

 lars pale olive ; sides of the crown and nuchal region olive ; in- 

 terscapulary region and scapulars olive, with a central streak of 

 blackish brown, and edged with white on the outer vanes ; the 

 long scapulars with white on the inner vanes above rump, black, 

 tipped broadly with olive ; great and small wing coverts plain 

 olive ; tail coverts blackish brown edged with olive, a few of the 



