182 EALLID^. 



46. PORPHYRIOPS. ^ 



Type. 



Poi-phyriops, Pitcher. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 278 P. melanops. 



Hydrocicca, Cab. Arch.f. Nat. 1847, p. 351 P. melanops. 



Uanye. South America, from the Argentine Republic to Chili and 

 thence north to Peru and Colombia. 



1. Porphyriops melanops. 



Cara negra, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 223 (1802). 



llallus melanops, Vieill. N. Diet, xxviii. p. 5.53 (1819). 



Fulica crassirostris, J. E. Gray, in Griffith\'> Anini. Kingd., Birds, iii. 



p. 542, cum tab. (1829). 

 Gallinula crassirostris, Gould, in Darwiris Voy. 'Beagle,^ Birds, p. 133 



(La Plata; Valparaiso) ; Bridges, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 118; Gray, 



Cat. GrallceBrit. Mus. p. 123 (1844); id. Gen.B. iii. p. 599 (1845); 



Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, lialli, p. 49 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 



p. 66, no. 10502(1871). 

 Crex femoralis, Tschudi, Arch.f. Nat. 1843, p. 388. 

 Ortygometra carolinensis (?), Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 24 (1847). 

 Hydrocicca melanops, Cah. Arch.f. Nat. 1847, p. 351 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 333 (Chili) ; Heine % Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. . 

 p. 317 (1890). 



Amaurornis femoralis, Bonap. C. R. xliii. p. 600 (1856). 

 Ortygometra melanops, Btirm. Reise La-Plata St. ii. p. 505 (1861 : 



Eio Uruguay). 

 Porphyriops melanops, Scl. Sj- Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 461 : Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. p. 315, note (1871 : Montevideo ; Panama) ; Scl. ^ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 140 a873) ; Durrf. Ibis, 1876, p. 163 



(Buenos Ayres), 1877, p. 195 ; Sahin, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 428 ; 



Taczan. Orti. Perou, iii. p. 326 (1886) ; Scl. Sf Hudson, Argent. 



Orn. ii. p. 156 (1889). 

 Porphyriops crassirostris. Pucker. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 278 ; Scl. Sf- 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 461 ; Salvad. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. viii. 



p. .382(1865). 

 Porphyriops leucopterus, Salvad. ut supra ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 175. 



Gallinula melanops, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 66, no. 10503 (1871). 

 Gallinula leucoptera, Gray, t. c. p. 66, no. 10.504 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above warm olive-brown, the sca- 

 pulars with a slight chestnut tinge ; wing-coverts more chestnut 

 than the back and slightly washed with golden olive ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, the former narrowly fringed 

 with white, the first primary white along the outer edge ; the inner 

 secondaries brown, washed with golden olive and edged externally 

 with white : tail-feathers dark brown ; head and hind neck brown 

 like the back, but the latter a little tinged with grey ; sides of face 

 dark ashy ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body slat}' grey, 

 washed with sandy colour on the fore neck and breast ; abdomen 

 whiter ; under tail-coverts pure white ; sides of vent barred with 

 white ; flanks ocellated with numerous ovate spots of white ; under 

 wing-coverts white, spotted or barred with dusky brown ; axillaries 

 regularly barred with brown and white : " legs and feet pale oli- 



