DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF CRAKES, 275 
with olive-brown and provided with one or two pairs of 
irregular white spots near the lateral edge. These spots 
are enlarged to rather long, white lateral stripes on each 
edge of the tail-feathers. Quills and upper wing-coverts 
somewhat paler than back, the latter with broader and 
paler olive-brown or rather ochre edgings and tips and 
very irregularly dotted with white spots similar to those 
on the scapulars. Quills provided with five, seldom with 
only four, rather broad white bars on the inner web 
and with the same number of white, bar-like large spots 
on the outer, flowing together to a longitudinal white 
stripe on the outer web of the two or three outermost 
primaries. Crown and hind-neck brownish gray with dark 
centres on the feathers, lores and eyelids whitish , cheeks, 
ear-coverts and sides of neck slaty gray, chin, throat, a 
streak behind the eye and thighs ashy gray, centre of 
chest, breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts brownish 
gray, sides of chest, breast and flanks of the same color 
as the mantle, each feather broadly margined with olive- 
brown, those on the sides of chest and breast with one, 
those on the flanks with two pairs of lateral white spots. 
Under wing-coverts olive-brown, centre black, richly spot- 
ted or barred with white, edge of wing pale fulvous. Bill 
and feet red. Wing 14 eM., tail 6,5, tarsus 3,8, culmen 
2,5. Hab. South America. 
Leyden Museum, July 1893. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
