126 



5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-05, tail 1-1, tarsus Owo, middle toe 

 and claw 0-8. 



Hah. British Guiana and Venezuela to Brazil. 



a, &. c? 2 ad. sk. 



c. 5 ad. sk. 



(I Ad. sk. 

 e. cJ ad. sk. 



/. Ad.^t. 



Roraima, British Guiana, 

 Dec. [H. Whitely). 



MerumeMouutains, B.Gui- 

 ana, Jidy 27 {H. W.). 



Venezuela (Spence). 



Caripe, Venezuela {A. 

 Goering). 



S. America. 



Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Purchased. 



32. ORTYGOPS. 



Cotumicops, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. -599 (1856) .... 



Ortygops (nom. emend.), Heine, in Heine 8f 



Reichenoiv, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 320 (1890). 



Type. _ 

 0. noveboracensis. 



Eange. North America generally 

 N. China to E. Siberia and Japan. 



S.E. Brazil; S.E. Africa 



Key to the Species. 



, Tail blackish or with white spots or bars. 

 a'. Feathers of upper surface margined with 

 white, but not spotted with the latter. 

 a". Larger : orange-rufous on the throat and 



sides of breast ; no dusky bars on throat, noveboracensis, p. 126. 

 b" . Smaller: throat and sides of breast rufes- 



cent brown, barred with duslty brown . . cxqidsita, p. 128. 

 b'. Feathers of upper surface spotted with white, tiotata, y>. 128. 

 , Tail chestnut, banded with black ; hind neck 



rufescent, contrasting with the back ayresi, p. 129. 



1. Ortygops noveboracensis. 



Yellow-breasted Gallinide, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 491 (1785) ; 



Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 262 (1786). 

 Fulica noveboracensis, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 701 (1788). 

 GaUinula noveboracensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 771 (1790). 

 Perdix hudsonica, Lath. t. c. p. 655 (1790). 

 Rallus ruticoUis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 556 (1819) ; 



id. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 168, pi. 266 (1825). 

 Ortygometra noveboracensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. p. 222 (1824) ; 



Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. S,- N. Amer. p. 53 (1838) ; Audub. B. 



Atner. v. p. 152, pi. 307 (1842) ; Giraud, B. Long Isl. p. 204 



(1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 594 (1846). 

 Rallus noveboracensis, Bp. Speech. Comp. p. 212 (1827) ; id. Amer. 



Orn. iv. p. 126, pi. 27. fig. 2 (1832) ; Audub. B. Amer. pi. 329; 



Swains. ^ Rich. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 402(1831); Nutt. 



Orn. Man. ii. p. 215 (1834) ; Audub. Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 251 (1838). 

 Cotiu*nicops noveboracensis, Bp. Ann. Sci. Nat. i. p. 46 (1854) ; id. 



