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368 ALECTOIIIDES. 



Forzana maruetta. 



THE EUKOFEAN SPOTTED OEAXB. 



Rallus porzam, Linn. S. N. til. 12, 1. 17tiU, 2tl2. 



Crex ponaait, Jenyns, Man. liiit. Vi'it. An. isa.'i, 218. — Nau.m. Vijg. Dcutsclil. IX. 1838, 523, \A. 



237. — MAcdiLi,. Man. 11. 114 ; Hist, liiit. U. IV. 1852, 035. 

 Oitij'ioinctm immnut, ^VV-VU. Cieii. Zoul. Xll. 223. — boNAI'. Conip. List, 1838, 53. — Keys, i 



BI.A.S. AViib. Vm\: 07. — tliiAY, (ieii. 11. 111. 5U3 ; Cut. Brit. 13. 1S(J3, 171). — liEi.sii. Ibis, 



]S()1, 12 ((livrniiinil). 

 Oalliiuila macii/dt'i, IIiieh.m, Vtig. Di'Utschl. Is31, 008. 

 Ga/linulapniicltilii, Huehm, t. i'. Oyi», pi. 30, liy. 3. 

 Orti/fjomelra maruelfu, Leacii, Syat. Cat. 1816, 34. 

 Purzuiia iiKtntiilii, (iiiAY, List (!cn. B. 1841, 91. — KiDOW. Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 3, 188U, 



201, 222 ; N'oni. X. Am. li. 1881, no. 573. — Col'k.s, C'hi'ck List, 2il eil. 1882, no. 078. 

 SputleU Cmh; YAitii, Brit. B. td. 2, III. i>7, lig. ; cd. 3, III. 114, lig. 



Had. Pulioaictie Kl'^Iou ; oeeas^ioual lu Greenlunil (cf. Reinharut, "Ibis," 1861, p. 122). 



Sp. Chak. Aihdt : Abovo, russut-brown, relieved bv obloii}^ sfiots of black and irregular, mostly 

 longitudinal, streak.s of white ; crown streaked with black, but without a median longitudinal stripe 

 of this color, as in P. mroliiut ; a wide superciliary stripe, malar region, chin, and throat, soft mouse- 

 gray ; lower half of lores dusky, upper half ihill whitish ; auriculars, neck, and jugulum li;;lit 



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hair-brown, irregularly speckled with wliite ; abdomen \\hiti.sh ; sides and flank.s brown, bar 

 with >vhite : crissum, plain creamy bull', Youny: Similar to the above, but superciliary str 

 finely speckled with white, the malar region, chili, and throat whitish, si)eckled with brown, 

 breast and belly washed with pale butt'. 



AVing, about 4.25-4.5(1 ; culmen, .08-. 72; tarsus, 1.2(1-1.30; middle toe, 1.25-1.35. Bill"r 

 dish yellow, brighter at the base," iris reddish brown, feet yellowish green (Macuillivray). 



Tills species is about the size of the Common" Sora"of North America (Porr.ana caroliuti), 

 resembles it very closely in coloration, the upper parts being almost precisely similar. It may 

 immediately distinguished, however, by the white speckling of the neck and breast, and the stiva 

 crown, characteristic of all stages, and in the adult plumage having no black on tlie lores 

 throat. 



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The "Spotted Crake" of England, or "Porzane Maronette" of the French, is. 

 according to M. Gerbe, a bird common in the greater part of Europe, Asia, ami 

 Afri(!a, and more especially in the warmer portions of that region. It is a bird of 

 the old continent, and has no other claim to a place in our fauna than its occasional 

 presence in Greenland. Gerbe says that it is not rare in any ])art of France, not even 

 the more northerly, -where it usually arrives in ^March. and from which it departs in 



