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was on the ground in the brush about four hundred yards back from the 

 shore at the northeast corner of the island near Seymour Island. The 

 eggs are identical in color with those of the last species, Butorides 

 fluinbeus^ but they are larger and the longest transverse diameter is a 

 little nearer one end than the other, giving them a slightly ovate shape. 

 They measure 48 X 37, 45.5 X 36, and 49 X 36, 



Family RALLID^. 



Genus Porzana Vieillot. 

 Porzana Vieillot, Analyse, p. 61, 181 6. 



Range. — Cosmopolitan. Galapagos Archipelago. 



28. PORZANA SPILONOTA (Gould). 



Zapornia spilonota Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii, Birds, p. 132, pi. 49, 1841 



(Galapagos), 

 Porzana spilonota Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ix, p. 500, 1876 (James 



and Indefatigable Islands). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 



618, 1896. 

 Porzana galapagoensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, p. 113, 1894 



(Galapagos). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 619, 1896. 

 Creczscus spzVono/tes Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 184, 1899. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago : James Island. 



This species is known only from the original specimens taken by 

 Darwin on James. We take the above synonymy from Rothschild and 

 Hartert, who have examined the types. 



29. PORZANA SHARPEI (Rothschild and Hartert). 



Creciscus sharpei Rothschild \^Xi Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 185, 1899, 

 (Indefatigable Island). 



Porzana spilonota Sclater and Salvin (not of Gould), Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., p. 456, 1868 ; p. 323, 1870 (Indefatigable Island). — Salvin, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 500, 1876 (James and Indefatigable Islands) 

 (in part). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 618, 1896 (in part). 



Creciscus spilonotus Sharpe (not of Gould), Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, p. 

 137, 1894 (Indefatigable Island). 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago : Indefatigable and Narboro. 

 MEASUREMENTS OF ADULT SPECIMENS OF Povzana sharj^et. 



