Plate LV. 



PORZANA ALBIGULARIS. 



(WHITE-THEOATED CRAKE). 



Corethrura albigularis . . . Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. T. vii. p. 302. 



... Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 372. 

 Forzana alUgularii . . . Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 280. 



Suprk fusca, lateribus capitis et cervice postica castaneis : subtus alba, pectore castaneo perfiiso : bypochondriis, 

 ventris lateribus et crisso albo nigroque transfasciatis : rostro olivaceo, pedibus fuscis : long, tota 5'5, alae 29, caudse 

 I'l, tarsi 1"1, rostri a rictu 0'9. 



Sab. in Isthm. Panama {MeLeannan) : Costa Hica {Arce) : Mosquitia {Wichham). 



This little Crake is a nortliem representative of the foregoing species, but is distinguishable 

 by well marked characters. The chestnut neck and breast, the regularly barred crissum and the 

 smaller size render it easily recognizable when compared with its southern ally. 



The White-throated Crake is one of Mr. McLeannan's numerous discoveries on the Isthmus 

 of Panama, and was first described by Mr. Lawrence in ISGl from specimens transmitted to him 

 by that well-known collector. The bird would appear to be not uncommon in this locality, 

 Mr. MeLeannan having likewise supplied the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman with 

 several examples of it, from one of which our illustration has been prepared. In these figures 

 it wlQ be noticed that the wings are wholly unspotted, but it should be stated that one of the 

 Panama skias shews black and white bars on the greater and lesser wing coverts, and that a 

 second has some traces of the same character. These markings would, however, probably 

 disappear in the adult bird. 



Northwards of Panama we have traced the occurrence of this Crake into Costa Rica, 

 whence a single specimen, obtained at Barranca on the gulf of Nicoya, has been transmitted 

 to us by Arc6, and up the eastern coast of Central America as far as the Blewfields river, 

 where Mr. Henry Wickham met with it during his excursion into the Mosquito territory. 



July, 1868. 



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