PORZANA NOT ATA. 155 



also occurs in the Northern Provinces of the Argentine Republic, where 

 it was met with by Dr. Burmeister in Tucuman. 



375. PORZANA SALINASI (Philippi). 

 (SPOT-WINGED CRAKE.) 



Rallus salinasi, Pkilippi, Wiegm. Arch. 1857, pt, i. p. 262 (Chili) ; Burm. Ibis, 

 1888, p. 285. Porzana spiloptera, Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 194, pi. iii. 

 (Buenos Ayres). 



Description. Above olive-brown with black markings ; wings with white 

 cross bands ; front, sides of head, and body beneath plumbeous ; flanks dark 

 grey, with transverse bars of white ; under tail-coverts barred with black and 

 white ; beak dark horn-colour ; feet rather lighter : whole length 5'5 inches. 



Hab. Chili and Argentina. 



In 1876 Durnford obtained a specimen of this Crake from the river- 

 scrub near Belgrano in the province of Buenos Ayres, and described 

 and figured it in ' The Ibis' under the MS. name "spiloptera" which 

 had been given by Dr. Burmeister to an example of the same bird in the 

 Buenos Ayres Museum. 



Dr. Burmeister has, however, recently ascertained that the appellation 

 which he proposed for this species must give way to that of salinasi, 

 under which title it was described in 1857 by Dr. Philippi of Santiago. 



Porzana salinasi, as we must therefore call it, is most nearly allied to 

 P. spilonota of the Galapagos (cf. Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 456), 

 but has the wings more distinctly striped, and the back olive-brown, 

 with black markings, and not of a uniform ferruginous. 



376. PORZANA NOTATA (Gould). 

 (MARKED CRAKE.) 



Zapornia notata, Gould, Zool. Vvy. Beagle, iii. p. 132, pi. xlviii. (La Plata). 

 Porzana notata, Scl. et Salv. Nomend, p. 140 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 450 j 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 255. 



Description. Above dark olive-brown, with small white spots : beneath black, 

 barred across with white : whole length 5*5 inches, wing 3*0, tail 1-3. 



Hab. Argentina and Patagonia. 



The type specimen of this little Crake was obtained during the voyage 

 of the ' Beagle/ on board the ship, when in the Rio Plata. Another 

 specimen was captured off the coast of Uruguay and brought alive to 

 England in 1876. An example of the same species in the Paris Museum 

 was procured by d'Orbigny in Patagonia. 



