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the coast, where he says these shy birds make well-formed runs in 

 the tall o-rass. In the niornino- and evening it is seen on tlie 

 roads and foot-paths which lead across the meadows. At the 

 slightest noise it immediately takes refage in the grass, which is 

 also its nesting-place. 



41. Porzana flaviventris. 



Yellows-bellied CJrake. 



Porzana flaviventris (BodcL), Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 52, 17S3 (Cayenne) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 110, 1S94 ; Brabom-ne & Chubb, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 24, no. 241, 1912. 



Adult. Head blackish, as is also a line in front and behind the 

 eye, becoming dusky on the nape and hind-neck, somewhat darker 

 on the mantle, back, and scapulars, where the feathers are longi- 

 tudinally streaked with white; wnng-coverts and tertials paler and 

 edged with white at the tips ; tail like the back ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, becoming paler on the 

 secondaries; sides of body, axillaries, and under tail-coverts barred 

 with black and white ; a white ioral streak which extends over the 

 eye ; throat and breast creamy buff ; abdomen white. " Bill 

 olive ; legs and feet yellowish." 



Total length 125 mm., culmen 16, wing 65, tail 31, tarsus 22, 

 middle toe and claw 31. 



The male and female appear to be similar both in colour and 

 measurements. 



The description is taken from an example obtained on the 

 Al^ary River in July 1006. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



J^<j<js Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Abary River, Perth, Esscquebo 

 River {McConnell collection^. 



E.ctralimital Range. Cayenne, Jamaica, and Cuba. 



JIalnts. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Gonus ORTYGOPS Hcin. & Rcichen. 



Orfi/f/ops Ik-iiie & Iteitlifnow, Xonieiicl. Mus. Ifein. Orn. p. 320, ISOO. 

 Type O. novehoraccnuis ((Inicl.). 



The mcMilicrs which coiiiposo this genus are very small birds 

 with short bills, long and sh-nder toes. The secondary quills are 

 white, and the nostrils are pervious. 



