26. ronzAXA. Ill 



black, aiul many of Ihcm having: mesial streaks of white ; scapulars 

 for the most part tawny colour, foriniug a broad longitudinal band 

 down each side of the back ; the lower back and rump marked like 

 the upper back, V)ut not so distinctly as the latter ; wing-covcrts 

 light tawny brown, the median and greater scries mottled with 

 black and spotted and barred with white ; primary-coverts dark 

 sepia-brown, the liastard-wing and quills more ashy brown edged 

 ■with lighter brown ; the first primary exteruallj- white, the inner 

 secondaries like the back ; tail-feathers blackish, externally light 

 brown ; crown of head uniform blackish brown ; sides of the crown 

 lighter brown like the sides of the neck ; lores blackish, with a very 

 distinct supraloral streak of white ; the sides of tlie face and ear- 

 coverts tawuy buff, the latter somewhat washed with ashy ; under 

 surface of body whitish, the fore neck and chest washed with pale 

 tawny buff ; the sides of the breast and flanks as well as the under 

 tail-coverts regularly barred with blaek and white ; the under wing- 

 coverts white, with a few duskj* bars principally near the edge of the 

 wing; axillaries white, barred with dusky blackish : "bill olive; 

 legs and feet yellowish " ( W. E. D. Scott). Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen OG, wing 2 7, tail 1 -35, tarsus t)-S, middle toe and claw l\3o. 

 Huh. Cuba ; Jamaica ; South America from Guiana to Southern 

 Brazil. 



a. cS ad. sk. Jamaica. Gosse Coll. (Type of 



L. f/dssit.) 

 h. Ad.sk. Oyapnc River, Cayenne (/<>/*A("j. Salvin-(;odman Coll. 



c. S fid- sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1 1 . Porzana tabuensis *. 



Tnbuan Rail, Lath, fli-n. Sijn. iii. pt. 1, p. 'l'-\'i (1785). 



Rallus tabuensis, (!m. iii/sf. Xaf. i. p. 717 (1788) ; Lafh. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 758 (18'J0) ; ricill. X. Diet, d Hist. Nat. x.wiii. p. 559 



(1819). 

 Crex piumbea, Graif in Griffith ed. Cuvier, iii. p. 410 (1829). 

 Gallinida immaculate, Swains. An. inMcnag.^. 337 (1837). 



* I'ORZAXA TAIIITIKXSIS 



Olahcitc E:\il, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. i.'JC) (1783). 



Rallus tiiliitiensjs, Gm. iiyst. Sat. i. p. 717 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 



p. 7Mt(17!H)). 

 RjiUiis iiiinulus (pt.), Forstt. Dcsrr. An. p. 178 (1844: ex Otabeite tantuin). 

 CuretliruPii tiiliitiensis. (irui/, (ien. B. iii. p. ."iVt.") (IM.')). 

 I'urzana taliilieiisis, //((r)"/. Wiegm. Arch. 18o2, p. 13(5; id.J.f. O. 1854, 



p. Id!!. 

 Znponiia taliitiensis, Ronap. C. B. xliii. p. ."JQO (18.56). 

 Ortvgoinetra taliitiensis. Oral/. B. Trap. Is. p. ,52 (18.59) ; Fin.'>ch i{- Haril. 



Orn. Cmtralpol. p. 170 (1870) ; Wi(//cgw. Ar. Poli/n. p. (il (18iU). 

 Arauius tahitieusis, (iraj/, Hand l. B. iii. p. 59, no. 10412 (1^71). 



This species is siip])oso(l to dilTer from 0. tabuensis of Ginelin " bv its white 

 first i)riiiiary ami tlie wliite margins of the others" (<;/'. VVigleswortb. I.e.). It 

 is very doubttul Hhither there is any real difference between this bird and 

 1'. ((ibiie»;<ii). 



