546 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 3, 



"The nest is round like a ball, made of coarse grass stalks, lined 

 and covered with grass bents and blades, and has a side entrance. 

 It is built 3 or 4 feet from the ground amongst the densest coarse 

 herbage and shrubs, in wild open parts where the forest has been cut 

 down. For ascending and descending it forms a kind of ladder with 

 a platform in front of nest. Lays but two eggs, and is exceedingly 

 shy."—? 1 . E. S. 



445. Porzana alhigularis (Lawr.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 454. 



Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Jris dark. 



Egg (no. 110) pale buff- white, sparsely spotted with small red 

 spots: axis 1*1, diam. "9. 



" The nest is made of grass stalks and bents, and is round, with a side 

 entrance, and placed amongst high grass and bushes in low swampy 

 places, about two feet above the ground or water." — T. K. S. 



446. Porphyrio martinicus (Linn.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1868, p. 459. 



Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) 

 Iris red. 



" Builds a nest of flags and grass amongst reeds by the water's 

 edge."— T. K. S. 



447. Gallinula galeata (Licht.) ; Scl. &Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 462. 



Antioquia. (Mus. S.-G.) 



" The nest is composed of flags and dried grasses, and is placed 

 on low overhanging branches or amongst reeds." — T. K. S. 



448. Heliornis fcljca (Bodd.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 469. 



ALECTORIDES. 



449. EurypYGA major, Hartlaub. 



Neche. 

 Iris dark. 



LIMICOL^E. 



450. Parra ttYpOMEL.ENA, Gray. 



Antioquia, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) 

 Iris dark. Stomach contained insects. 



Egg (no. 123) olive, thickly streaked with broad black lines, 

 crossing one another in all directions : axis 1*2, diam. - 9. 



451. Vanellus cayennensis (6m.). 



Retiro, Concordia, Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris red. 



Egg (no. 126) olive-brown, spotted with brownish-black spots of 



