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The female lays 6 or 7 white eggs, marked with 

 rust coloured spots. 



3. PORZANA. SPOTTED GALLINULE. 



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G. fusco-olivacea nigro albidoque variegata et ma- 

 culata, subtus cinerea albido varia, rectricibus 

 duabus intermediis albo marginatis. Lath. 



The bill is greenish yellow, three-fourths of an 

 inch long ; the top of the head to the nape is dusky, 

 slightly streaked with rusty brown ; a brown and 

 white mottled stripe passes- from the bill over and 

 behind the eyes ; the cheeks and throat are of a 

 freckled dull grey ; the neck and breast are olive, 

 marked with small white spots ; the sides are dusky 

 and olive, crossed with bars of white ; the under 

 parts are a mixture of cinereous dirty -white and yel- 

 low ; the colour of the plumage of the upper parts 

 is dusky and olive-brown spoited, barred or streaked 

 with white ; legs yellowish green. (Bewick?) 



Length 9 inches, weight 4joz. 



The female lays 6 or 8 white eggs. 



4. MINUTA. LITTLE GALLINULE, 



The bill is bright green ; the upper parts of the 

 head dusky brown ; the chin and throat are white ; 

 the lower part of the neck, breast, sides, and 



