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Toi-zfina albigiilaiis, Scl. ^- Sal v. P. Z. S. 18G4, p. 372 (Panama) : 

 lid. P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 280 (Mosquitia) ; iid. E.vot. Orn. p. 109, 

 pi. .'jo (18()S) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1808, p. 4o4 ; iid. Nomcnd. Av. Neotr. 

 p. 140 (187o) ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. .V. Y.'w. p. 142 (1808 : Nicova) ; 

 Hd. Sf Sale. P. Z. S. 1879. p. r,4G (Antioquia) , Eid(/w. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mtis. vi. p. 409(1883 : Panama). 



Aramides albigularis, Grai/, Iland-l.B. iii. p. Gl, no. 10442 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above reddish chocolafce-bron-n with 

 a slight olive tint ; scapulars and wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard--\ving, ])riniary-covcrts, and quills dusky brown, cxternalh 

 lighter brown ; inner secondaries like the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail dark chocolate-brown ; crown of head dusky olive-brown 

 with a reddisli tint, more especially on the forehead and eyebrow ; 

 lores ashy ; sides of face and sides of neck chestnut, this colour 

 extending over the hind neck and mantle ; throat white, with a 

 chestnut tinge on the lower part, the fore neck and chest entirely 

 chestnut, paler in the centre of the latter ; remainder of under 

 surface of body white, regularly barred with black ; thighs brown 

 externally, white internally ; under wing-coverts white, the axil- 

 laries white, barred with black; quills ashy below. Total length 

 5-S inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2'9, tail P25, tarsus 1, middle toe 

 and claw l-4r). 



ITah. From Colombia to Costa Rica and Xicaragua. 



C. Creciscus cinereiceps. 



Porzana cinereiceps, Lawr. Ann. Li/c. N. Y. xi. p. 90 (1875) ; Ridqw. Prof. 

 U.S. Nat. Mits.i. p. 252 (1878: Costa Rica); id. op. cif. vi. p. 409, 

 note (1883: Costa Rica). 



Head mostly grey; wing-coverts without lighter bars ; chin and tliroat pale 

 cinnamon, the former inclining to whitish ; juguhim and whole breast rich 

 cliestnut rufous, with the white bars on sides and flanks very broad. 



Hub. Eastern Costa Rica (Talanianca). 



He has likewise named a fourth species, of which I transcribe the descrip- 

 tion : — 



Creciscus alfara. 

 Porzana alfara, Tiidffw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mits. x. 1887, p. Ill (Costa Rica"). 



'•Similar to P. alhigularis, but has the black bars on the flanks nuieli 

 bi'oader. 



" Adult femnli'. Pileum deep bistre-brown, becoming lighter and more of nn 

 umber tint along the hind neck; rest of ujiper parts deo)) bistre anteriorly, 

 deepening gradually into blackish brown posteriorly ; tiie tail almost black. 

 Sides of bead, neck, and breast cinnamon rufous, most intense laterally, much 

 paler along the nnddle line, the chin and throat being almost white : lores dull 

 light greyish brown, bordered above by a very indistinct rusty streak on each 

 side of the forehead ; ear-coverts greyish brown ; entire sides, fljoiks, thighs, 

 under tail-eoTerts, anal region, and belly distinctly and regid;irly barred witb 

 black and white, the bars of the latter colour everywhere much narrower than 

 the former; bill dusky olive-greenish, lea;s and feet olive-blackish. Length 

 (skin) 5'.")0 inches, wing 3, culmen 0'70, tarsus P20, middle toe 1'25.'' 

 {li. Ridgivai/.) 



Hub. Costa Bica. 



