124 BRITISH GUYANA BIRDS EGGS. 
They lay two eggs. 
The egg — 25 mm. by 17 mm. — is white. 
They hatch in January, February and March, but their 
nests have been found in August. — One egg (N°. 31). 
21. Craze alector L. 
Powis. 
They build an open nest of grass, on the ground, under 
the shelter of low bushes, in the interior. 
They lay two eggs. 
The egg — 83 mm. by 60 mm. — is white; it is covered 
with a rough coating of small elevations. 
They hatch in March and April. — One egg (N°. 38). 
22. Porphyrio martinicus (L). 
Blue Coot. 
The nest is flat and is built of small sticks and of grass 
among the tall water-plants which grow in the swamps: 
rarely they build on low bushes. The egg sent was taken, 
with four others, out of a nest built in a coffee-tree. 
They lay six eggs. 
The egg — 50 mm. by 32 mm. — is pink white, covered, 
especially about the large end, with light grey and light 
brown spots. 
They hatch in May, June and July. — One egg (N°. 35). 
New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guyana. 
March 3lst, 1892. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
