46 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Skin. 



P. U. O. C. No. 



7,800. 



Sex. 



Not Known. 



Locality. 



Lower Rio Chico, Patagonia. 



30 March, 1897. J. B. Hatcher, 



A female of this species from the Valle del Lago Blanco, Chubut, col- 

 lected by J. Koslovvsky on November 27, 1901, is now in the collection 

 of the British Museum. 



The similarity of this Rail to the Virginia Rail {J^. virginiamts) is no- 

 ticeable. Almost the same size, this bird is materially different in color, 

 though the pattern of the color areas is much alike in both. 



The habits of these small rails have been dealt with by a number of 

 authors and they do not seem to differ greatly from their congeners 

 throughout the world. 



Genus LIMNOPARDALIS Cabanis. 



Type. 



Limnopardabis, Cab. J. f O. 1856, p. 428; Sharpe, 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. 27 (1894) . . . L. macttlatus. 



Pardirallus, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 599 (1856) L. inaculatus. 



Ortygonax, Heine in Heine & Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. 



Hein. p. 321 (1890) L. rytirhynchus. 



Limnopardalis, Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 95 (1899) 

 ( = Limnopardabis). 

 Geographical Range. — Cuba, Trinidad and South America. 



Limnopardalis vigilantis Sharpe. 



Rallus rythyrhynchus (nee Vieill), Doering, Expl. al Rio Negro, Zool. 



Aves, p. 55 (1882: Abundant on the Rios Negro and Colorado) ; 



Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Ayres, III. Part X. p. 246 (1888: 



Patagonia). 

 Ralbis anfarcficus, Sharpe (nee King), P. Z. S. 1881, p. 14 (Tom Bay). 

 Limnopardabis vigilantis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. 31, pi. IV. 



(1894); id. Hand-List B. I. p. 95 (1899); Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. (2) xx. p. 626 (1900: Keppel Isl, Falklands, Aug.). 



