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brown margins ; head dark slaty grey, becoming browner on the 

 nape and hind neck, the forehead with blackish shaft-lines to the 

 feathers ; sides of face and sides of neck, and entire under surface 

 of body clear slaty grey ; lores somewhat dusky ; thighs and lower 

 abdomen ashy grey, the flanks browner ; the imdcr tail-coverts 

 blackish, with brown tips to the shorter ones ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, like the quill-lining. Total length 12'5 inches, 

 culmen 1"4, wing 5-35, tail 2-7, tarsus 1"8, middle toe and claw 2"2. 

 Huh. Prom Central Chili to I'eru. 



a-f. Ad. sk. Central Chili. 



y. (S ad. sk. Santiago, Chili {Leybold). 



h. Ad. sk. Valparaiso. 



i-n. cJ 2 ad. et Tarapaca, Jan. to Aug. {A. 



imm. sk. Laiw). 



o. 2 ad. sk. Arequipa, Peru, June (//. 



ir/iite/i/). 

 p. <S iuim. sk. Arerpiipa, March 18 (II. 



mite'!/). 



Berkeley James Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 kSir W. Burnett and 

 Adm. Fitzroy [P.]. 

 Berkeley Jiimes Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Subsp. jj. Limnopardalus vigilantis. (Plate TV.) 



Ilallus rytirhvnchus (nee T'.), aiict. recent. ^pt. 



Rallus antarcticus (lapsull nee King), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 18S1, p. 14 

 (Tom Bay). 



Adult male. Similar to L. rj/iirhijnc7nis, but much larger and 

 distinguished by its larger bill and the want of the red spot at the 

 base of the lower mandible : " bill dark green ; legs and feet red ; 

 iris red" (Dr. Coppimjer). Total length \'yo inches, culmen 2*5o, 

 wing 5-3, tail 3, tarsus 1-85, middle toe and claw 2*2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour ; under tail-coverts 

 blackish : " bill with greenish lustre ; legs red ; iris dark red " 

 (Dr. Coppiiv/er). Total length 15-5 inches, culmen 2-5o, wing 5-i), 

 tail 3"2, tarsus 1'9, middle toe and claw 2-'2o, 



Hah. Straits of Magellan. 



S ad. sk. Hermit Island. 



cj' ad. sk. Port llfinv, Straits of 



-Miigellan, " Jan. 29 (Dr. 



C'oppi)i(/cr). 

 cJ ad. sk. Mayno Harbour, March (I)r. 



Cojtpiiujer). 

 2 ad. sk. Tom Bay, April (Dr. Coppin- 



(jer). ' 



Antarctic Exped. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Voy.H.M.S.' Alert.' 

 Voy. n.M.S. '.Uert.' 



3. Limnopardalus nigricans. 



Ypacahii obscuro, Azara. Apimt. iii. p. iM'.i (1806). 



Kalhis nigricans, Vicill. X.Dict. d'llist. Xat. xxviii. p. oGO (1S19) ; 



Neiiwied, L'eitr. Xatur;/. IJras. iii. p. 782 (18.'';3 : Kio de Janeiro) ; 



Grni/, Gen. B. iii. p."o93 {Is4(;); Scld. Mus. I\v,f-lias, Kalli, 



p. 8 (18(1.3); Set. V.V Halo. P. Z. S. 18ti8, p. 44t; : P'elz. Ont. liras. 



p. 315 (1871); Sd. iy Halv. Nomend. Av. Xeotr. p. 139 (1873); 



