110 KALLID^. 



on the outer web ; the inner secondaries olive-brown, with broad 

 black centres, resembling the dorsal plumage ; upper tail-coverts 

 like the back, but with a few white spots ; tail-feathers black, edged 

 with olive-brown ; crown of head rather darker than the back, the 

 forehead and lores being especially blackish, as well as the feathers 

 round the eye and ear-coverts, these last having a shade of leaden 

 grey ; cheeks, sides of neck, and under surface of body leaden grey ; 

 the lower abdomen whitish ; vent-feathers fulvous ; flanks black, 

 conspicuously barred with white : under tail-coverts black, barred or 

 spotted and tipped with white ; under wing-covcrts white, mottled 

 with blackish bases to the feathers ; lower primary-coverts uniform 

 ashy like the quill-lining; axillaries blackish, with whitish bars: 

 " bill very dark horn, nearly black ; legs and feet of a browner colour 

 and rather lighter ; iris crimson, inclining to scarlet " {H. Durnford). 

 Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-9, 

 middle toe and claw 1-1. 

 Hab. Buenos Aires. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Belgrano, Buenos Aires, IT. Durnford, Esq. [C.]. 



Aug. 24. (Type of species.) 



10. Porzana flaviventris. 



Petit Eale de Cayenne, Dmibe7it. PL Enl. ix. pi. 847 ; Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. viii. p. IW (1781). 

 Little Rail, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii.pt. 1, p. 239 (1785). 

 Kallus fiaviventer, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 62 (1783). 

 Kallus niinutus, &'?;i. Syst. Nat. i. p. 719 (1788); Benny, P. Z. S. 1847, 



p. 41 ; Lemheye, Av. Cuba, p. 109 (1850J ; Breicer, Proc. Bost. 



^bc. A^.il. vii. p. 308(1800). 

 Ypacaha ceja blanca, Azara, Ajnmt. iii. p. 231 (1806). 

 liallus superciliaris, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx^iii. p. 505 



(1819). 

 Ortygometra flaviventris, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 593 (1846) ; Ilarll. 



ind. Azara, p. 24 (1847). 

 Ortvgometra minuta. Gusse, B. Jamaica, p. 372, pi. civ. (1847) ; 



Biirm Th. Bras. iii. p. 358 (1850). 

 Crex minuta, Beichenb. Handb. Fulicarise, pi. ccc.xxii. tig. 2574 (1851) ; 



6W. P. Z. 6'. 1861, p. 81. 

 Corethrura miuuta, Licht. Nomencl. Ar. p. 90 (1854). 

 Laterirallus gossii, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1850). 

 Erytbra minuta, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 600 (1850). 

 Crybastus gossii, Cab.J.f. 0. 1850, p. 428; Giindl. J. f. 0. 1875, 



p. 358; id. Orn. Cuba, p. 191 (1870). 

 Porzana minuta, March, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1804, p. 69. 

 Porzana flaviveuter, <S(7(/. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 31 (1865) ; A. S^- 



E. Neiot. Handb. B. Jamaica, 1881, p. 114. 

 Porzana flaviventris, Scl. c^- Salr. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 455 ; Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. p. 459 (1871 : S.E. Brazil) ; Scl. S( Sah. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 140 (1873) ; Coi-y, B. W. Ind. p. 255 (1889); Scott, Aide, ix. 



p. 11 (1892: Jamaica). 

 Aramides fla\iventer, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 61, no. 10443(1871). 



Adult. General colour above brown, the feathers centred with 



