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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



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

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

 of the British Museum. 



The similarity of "this Rail to the Virginia Rail (fi. mrginianus] 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. 



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

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



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



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

 Hein. p. 321 (1890) 



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

 ( = Limnopardalus}. 



Type. 



L. maculatus. 

 L. maculatus. 



L. rytirhynchus. 



Geographical Range. Cuba, Trinidad and South America. 



LIMNOPARDALIS VIGILANTIS Sharpe. 



Rallus rythyrhynch^^s (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). 



Rallus antarcticus, Sharpe (nee King), P. Z. S. 1881, p. 14 (Tom Bay). 

 Limnopardalus 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.). 



