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and in some examples it is of a pale greenish white or stone-colour. 

 The markings consist of specks, spots, and very small blotches of 

 pale purple and dark maroon-brown. Numerous specimens measure 

 from 1-15 to 1'4 in length, and from -8 to '1 in breadth. 



10. Valkenswaard, Holland {J. Baker). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



10. Valkenswaard, l:?th May {H. See- Seebohm Coll. 

 hohin). 



4. Valkenswaard, 12th May (if. S. : Seebolim Coll. 



Harqitt Coll.). 



1. Valkenswaard, 14th May {H. S.: Seebohm Coll. 

 Ilan/itt Coll.). 



5. Valkeiiswaard, 14th May (H. S.). Seebohm CoU. 

 9. Valkenswaard, 19th May {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Valkenswaard, 19th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 (3. Valkenswaard, 19th May (H. i>\). Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Valkenswaard, 19th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



7. Valkenswaard, 21st May {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



8. Valkenswaard, 21st May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Valkenswaard, 24th May {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 1, Valkenswaard, 2oth May {H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



10. Allkerk, Holland, 6th Jime (/. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



IJciker). 



8. South Holland. Lord Lilford [P.], 



4. Brunswick, 9th Ma}' (//. Seebohm). Seebohm Coll. 

 8. Livonia, Baltic Provs. {Russoiv). Seebohm Coll. 



Porzana Carolina {Linn.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Porzana Carolina, Baird, Brewer >§• Bidgio. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 370 

 (1884) ; S/iarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 97 (1894); id. Hand-l. i. 

 p. 101 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Carolina, or Sora, Crake in the Collection 

 closely resemble those eggs of P. j^orzana in which the ground is 

 of a pale buff colour. They measure respectively : 1"25 by "9 ; 1"23 

 by -9 ; 1-3 by -9. 



1. N. America {Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. N. America {Henshaio Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Porzana pusilla, Pall. 



Gallinula pvgnirea, Thien. Fortpjianz. yes. Voy. tab. Ixxiii. tig. 2, a-c 



(184.-)-54). 

 Zapornia pygmsea, Baedeker, JSier Eur. l^dg. tab. 44. fig. 3 (1856-63). 

 Crex bailloni, Heivitson, Br/t/s of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 377, pl. cvi. fig. i 



(1856) ; Sah-in, Ibis, 1859, p. 361 ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 543, 



pl. 23 (1884) ; id. Egijs of Brit. Birds, p. 84, pl. 22. tig. 4 (189G). 

 Porzana bailloni, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 275 (1878). 

 Porzana pygnia;a, Cowan, Proc. Ii. Phi/s. Soc. Edin. vii. p. 149 (1882) ; 



Milne-Edwards ^- Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Maday., Ois. ii. p. 578, 



pl.306. tig. 4 (1885). 



