92 



a. Juv. sk. 



b. S ad. sk. 



c. d. Ad. sk. 



e. 5 imm. sk. 

 /. c? juv. sk. 



g. Ad. sk. 

 h. Juv. sk. 



i, k. 2 ad. sk. 

 /. c? ad. sk. 



m. J ad. sk. 



w-g'. S ad. ; r-w. 



2 ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 ?t'. Ad. sk. 



Ashburton, DevonsliLre. Montagu Coll. 



Europe. Gould Coll. 



France. Riocour Coll. 



{? Type of RaUus peyrousii.) 



Galicia, May. 



Bosphorus, Aug. {T. Rob- 

 son). 



Erzeroum. 



Marshes of Babylonia 

 (^Commander Jones). 



Candahar, Feb. 



Candahar, Marcb 10 {Sir 

 O. St. John). 



Bolan River, Bolan Pass 

 (Griffith). 



Larkbana, Sind, Jan. (A. 

 O. H.). 



Uganda, Equatorial Africa 

 (Piaggia). 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 



Gould Coll. 

 India Museum. 



Col. Swinboe [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



India Museum. 



Hume Coll. 



Sbarpe Coll. 



26. PORZANA*. 



Type. 



Porzana, Vieillot, Analyse, p. 61 P. porzana. 



Mustelirallus, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1856) . P. albicoUis. 



Galeolimnas, Heine in Heijie 8f Reichen. Noniencl. Sein. 



p. 320 (1890) , P. Carolina. 



Range. Nearly cosmopolitan. 



Key to the Species. 



. Axillaries barred vritb white ; back streaked 



•with black and spotted or lined with white. 



a'. Vent white or tawny butF, the grey not 



extending beyond the upper breast. 



a". Centre of throat ashy; the inner web of 



the innermost secondaries light fulvous 



brown porzana, p. 9.3. 



b". Centre of throat black, as also the fore 

 part of the cheeks and lores ; inner web 

 of secondaries like the rest of the quills 



and fringed with white Carolina, p. 97. 



b'. Vent black ; the grey of the breast extend- 

 ing to the abdomen fiuminea, p. 101. 



* I have not been able to identify the following species : — 

 Porzana marginalis. 



Porzana marginalis, Bp. C. B. xhii. p. 599 (1856, descr. nulla) ; Hartl. Orn. 



W.-Afr. p. 241 (1857 : Gaboon) ; Toes. J. f. 0. 1870, p. 64 (Biskra, 



Algeria) ; Hciig!. t. c. p. 385 ; Taez. t. c. p. 371 ; Oust. Kouv. Arch. 



Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 143 (1879 : Gaboon). 

 Ortygometra marginalis, Gurncy in Anderss. B. Bam.-Ld. p. 318 (1872 : 



Oudonga). 

 Crex marginalis, Sharpe, ed. LayardJs B. S. Afr. p. 613 (1884). 



Rah. Algeria and West Africa from Gaboon to Damara Land. 



