2G. PORZANA. 93 



b. Axillaries uniform, not barred with white 

 (occasionally a few white spot.-i). 

 c . \\'ith the back mottleil, not uniform. 



c". Witli no white frecklings or bars on the 

 upper surface, which is olive-brown 

 mottled with black centres to the 

 feathers ; under surface of body ashy- 

 grey ; throat white alhivolhs, p. 102. 



d". With white frecklings or bars on the 



up])er surface. 



«'". AVing-coverts spotted with white or 



unifonn. 



a*. Ear-coverts blue-grey, or ashy, with 



no brown streak along their upper 



portion intermedia, p. 103. 



b^. Similar to P. intermedia, but with 



lighter colour and a longer bill .... affinis, p. 106. 

 c*. Ear-coverts grey, with more or less 

 of a brown streak along their upper 

 margin, 

 a*. Larger : olive-brown above, ashy 



grey below ; sides of body barred, puailla, p. 106. 

 6'. Smaller : more tawny above : 

 pearly grey below ; lower throat 

 and abdomen white ; flanks 



barred palustris, p. 109. 



b'" . Wing-coverts with white bars. 



d^. No white streaks on the back, which 

 is olive-brown with blackish centres 

 to the feathers ; throat and breast 



uniform slaty grey spiloptera, p. 109. 



e'. Back broadly streaked with white; 

 under surface of body white, tinged 



with tawny buifon the chest Jlauiveiitris, p. 110. 



d'. With the back uniform. 



e". Of smaller size : under tail-coverts barred 

 withwiiite; back rufous-chocolate; bill 

 entirely black. 

 c'". Larger ; wing 3-6 inches : wing- 

 coverts conspicuously edged with 



white tabuensis, p. 111. 



d'". Smaller; wing 2-7 indies: white 



edgings to the wing-coverts obsolete. . galajiaycnsis, p. 113. 

 f". Larger : under tail-coverts uniform black ; 

 back reddish brown ; bill for the most 

 part yellow bicolor, p. 113. 



1 . Porzana porzana. 



Le petit Rasle d'eau, ou La Marouette, JBriss. Om. v. p. 155, 



pi. .\iii. tig. 1 (1760). 

 liallus porzana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 262 (1766) ; Gtn. St/st. Nat. i. 



p. 712 (1788); Pall. Zoogr. hox^o-Asiat . ii. p. 1;J4 (1811: S. 



IJussia, Crimea, Siberia) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. 



p. 557 (1819); 7iV»/.(, Om. Prov. pi. 3o0 (1825); Jfriy/it, iifV, 



1864, p. 150 (Maha) ; Hetb. Ibis, 1883, p. 27 (Caucasus). 



