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and flanks ferruginous brown ; under tail-coverts black, irregularly 
crossed with bars of buff; bill and feet blackish brown. 
Total length, 62 inches; bill, 7; wing, 4; tail, 3; tarsi, l. 
In size this species rather exceeds the Climacteris scandens. 
Hab. The north-west coast of Australia. 
From the collection of Mr. Bynoe. 
Porzana FLUMINEA. Porz. corpore superiore olivaceo ; singulis 
plumis strigd centrali nigrescente, et ad marginem guttis duabus 
albis antic? et postice nigro-cinctis, ornatis ; facie, guld, pectore 
et abdomine superiore plumbeo-cinereis, abdomine imo, et lateribus 
cinerescenti-nigris, lineis albis angustis irregulariter fasciatis. 
All the upper surface olive, with a broad stripe of blackish brown 
down the centre and two oval spots of white, bounded above and 
below with black on the margin of each web of every feather ; pri- 
maries and secondaries brown ; tail dark brown, margined with lighter 
brown and with an indication of white spots on the extreme edge; 
face, throat, chest, and upper part of the abdomen dark slate-grey ; 
lower part of the abdomen and flanks greyish black, crossed by nar- 
row irregular bars of white ; under tail-coverts white ; bill orange- 
red at the base, and dark olive-green for the remainder of its length ; 
feet dark olive-green. 
Total length, 7 inches ; bill, %; wing, 33; tail, 1}; tarsi, 1. 
Hab. New South Wales. 
Porzana PALusTRIs. Porz. capite et nuchd ferrugineo-fuscis, sin- 
gulis plumis longitudinaliter strigdé centrali. nigrescenti-ornatis ; 
plumis dorsalibus scapularibus, et secundartis fuscescenti-nigris, 
rufescente marginatis, et strigd oblongd alba nigro interrupta or- 
natis ; guld, pectore, et abdomine superiore cinereis ; abdomine imo 
et lateribus nigrescentibus lineis latis irregularibus cinereis fas- 
ciatis. 
Head and back of the neck rusty brown, with a stripe of blackish 
brown down the centre of each feather ; feathers of the back, scapu- 
laries and secondaries brownish black margined with rusty brown, 
and with an oblong stripe or mark of white, interrupted in the mid- 
dle with black ; wing-coverts rusty brown, a few of them marked on 
their inner webs like the scapularies; primaries brown, two or three 
of the innermost with a mark or marks of white at the tip ; tail dark 
brown, fringed with rusty brown ; face, throat, chest and upper part 
of the abdomen grey; lower part of the abdomen and flanks black- 
ish grey, crossed by broad irregular bands of grey; bill and feet 
olive- brown. 
Total length, 6 inches ; bill, $; wing, 3; tail, 14; tarsi, 1. 
Hab. Van Diemen’s Land. 
Srerna vetox. Stern. fronte, loris, colli lateribus, et corpore in- 
feriore albis ; spatio circumoculari, occipite et nuchd nigris ; cor- 
pore superiore, alis, cauddque bellé cinereis. 
Forehead, lores, sides of the neck, and all the under surface white ; 
space surrounding the eye, occiput, and back of the neck black ; all 
