Dr. Schlegel's Porzana schomhurgki (Mus. de P. B. lialli^ p. 37) can hardly be of this Kpccies 

 if his description is correct.* It would appear to be more like Sclater's P. enjthrops^ to which, 

 therefore, we have provisionally referred it. 



The original discoverer of this Rail was Dr. Richard Schomburgk, who obtained a pair of 

 the species during his excursion to the Roraima mountains of British Guiana'in November, 1842, ,J^ 

 at an elevation of about 3300 feet above the sea-level, and gave a short description of it in 

 the second volume of his well-known travels. Dr. Schomburgk tells us that it is very easy to 

 catch it alive, as after a short flight it endeavours to conceal itself in the grass. He thus 

 captured a male and female and kept them for some time in a cage. From Guiana and 

 Cayenne, it appears to extend into Venezuela, whence specimens have been forwarded by M. 

 Levraud to the Paris Museum. The single specimen in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman from which our figure is taken is from the latter country, and was obtained bv Mr. 

 Anton Goering near Caripe. 



* Dessus d'un brun olivatre. Dessous gris d'ardoise ; baa ventre et sou8-caudales noires avec des bandelettca 

 blanches. 



Decembeb, 1868. 



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