274 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF CRAKES, 
NOTE XXXIX. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF CRAKES. 
BY 
J. BUTTIKOFER. 
The Leyden Museum has possessed for some years in its 
bird-gallery a specimen of a Rail which was determined 
by the late Professor Schlegel to be the young of Rallus 
maculatus. The individual in question purchased of Mr. 
Frank in 1865. During his recent visit to our Museum, 
my friend Dr. Bowdler Sharpe pointed out that instead of 
being a Rail, it was a Crake, and belonged to a section 
of genera which embraced Crecopsis, Castanolimnas and 
Crex. He very kindly took the specimen to London with 
him, and compared it for me with all the neighbouring 
genera, some of which are not represented in our Museum. 
As it does not agree with any of the known genera, it 
seems to represent a new genus, which I| propose to call. 
Stictolimnas gen. nov. 
Differt a genere Castanolimnas dicto ala minus rotun- 
data, remige secunda et tertia aequalibus; a genero Cre- 
copsis dicto rectricibus decompositis et remigibus aliter 
dispositis. Typus est 
Stictolimnas Sharpei n. sp. 
Mantle, scapulars, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and 
tail brownish black, the on mantle and scapulars margined 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
