25. ZAPORNIA. 89 



euros) ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 140 (1873); Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 3l'0; Tacz. Orn. Ferou, iii. p. 324(1886). 

 Aramides hauxwelli, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. Gl, no. 10440 (1871). 

 Ortygometra sclateri, Gray, t. c. p. 63, no. 10466 (1871). 



Adult nutle. General colour above rufous olive-brown, the wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills dark brown, externaUy like the back; 

 head and neck all round, throat and breast chestnut ; lower breast, 

 abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts reddish buff, barred 

 across with dusky blackish ; under wiug-coverts rufescent, the lower 

 series dusky with reddish margins ; (juills uniform dusky brown 

 below. Total length 0-5 inches, culmeu 0"7o, wing 3*65, tail 1'05, 

 tarsus 1*55, middle toe and claw 1'55. 



Ilah. Upper Amazonia. 



a. Ad. sk. Chamicuros, Upper Ama- J. Ilauxwell, Esq. 



zous. [C.]. 



b. cS ad. sk. Pubas, Upper Amazons, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June 27 {J. Hauxwell). (Type of species.) 



c,d. cJ $ ad. sk. Yquitos, Oct. H. Whitely [C.]. 



e, (S ad. sk. Sarayacu. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



25. ZAPORNIA. 



Type. 

 Zapornia, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamni. ^- B. Brit. Mus. p. 34 



(181G) Z. parva. 



Phidaridion, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 137 (1829)* Z. parva. 



rbalaridium, Heine ^- Meiclien. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



p. 311.) (1890 ; nom. emend.) Z. parva. 



Range. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Zapornia parva. 



Rallus parvus. Scop. Ami. I. p. 108 (17G9) ; Giyl. Ibis, 1865, p. 62 



(Pisa), 

 lialhis mixtus, Lapeyr. Mamm. et Ois. Ilaute-Garonne, p. 38 (1799). 

 Galliiuila luiuuta, Mont. Orn. Diet. (" Galliuide, Little "), cum fig. 



(lsl:i). 

 Galliuula foljambei, Mont. Orn. Diet. (" Gallinule, Olivaceous' ). 

 Zapornia ininuta (nee Pall.), Leach, Si/st. Cat. Mamm. ike. Brit. Mus. 



p. .-U (181(;) ; For.^t. Syn. Cat. Brit. B. p. 27 (1817) ; Bp. C. R. 



xliii. p. 509 (185G) ; Loche. E.vpl. Sci. Ah/ir., 0/s.ii.p. 341 (1867). 

 Rallus pevrousii, J'ieill. N. Diet, d' Hid. Nat. xxviii. p. 562 (1819) ; 



lioiu; Orn. Provm^. pi. 331 (1825) ; Friisck, J.f. O. 1871, p. 381 



(Bohemia). 

 Gallinula pusilla (nee Pall.), Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 340(1883); 



Tcmm. Man. d'Oni. ii. p. 690 (1820) ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, 



Pl- ' ^ ' ' ^ ■" " 



G, 



On 



lenim. Jinn, a urn. n. p. 0}»u (^ir'iiu; ; n erner, .irw.f, wnuies, 

 pi. 36 (1827) ; Brehm, Voq. Deutschl. p. 69!) (1831) ; Cre.->pon, Om. 

 Gnrd, p. 450 (1840); Schley. Pec. Crit. p. ciii (1844) ; Kja-rb. 

 Orn. Dan. Taf. xxxviii. tig. 3, Suppl. pi. xviii. tigs. 3, 4 (1852) ; 



* P- Pl/ff^'P't is olso included by Kaup, who does not seem to have appre- 

 ciated the different structure of the wiug in the two species. 



