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Genns LIMNOPARDALIS, Gab. 



Limnopardalis sanguinolentus {Swains.). 



Rallus sanguinolentus, Yarr. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 54. 



Eallus rhytirhynchus, Scl. Sr Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 990 ; JoTiies, Nmc 



List of Chilian Birds, p. 10 (1892). 

 Limnopardalus sanguinolentus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 30 



(1894). 

 Limnopardalis sanguinolentus, Sharpe, Sand-l. i. p. 95 (1899). 



The eggs of the Blood-spotted Eail resemble those of Rallus 

 aquaticus. An example from Peru is large, measuring 1-43 by 1-03 ; 

 Chilian eggs are smaller, measuring from 1-25 to 1"37 in length, 

 and from "OS to -95 in breadth. Tarrell (1. c.) gives the dimensions 

 of an egg of this species as 1"8 by 1-25. Skins of Z. sanguinolentus, 

 procured by Mr. Whitely in Peru and Mr. James in Central Chile, 

 are in the collection of the British Museum, and serve to confirm 

 the authenticity of the eggs found by these naturalists in Peru and 

 Chile respectively. 



1. Peru (if. Whitely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Central ChUe {Landbech). Berkeley James Coll. 



Genus HYPOT.aiNIDIA, Beichenb. 



The eggs of the Eails of this genus are normally of a very broad 

 oval form, sometimes truly elliptical and, not unfrequently, 

 spheroidal. The amount of gloss is very variable, even among the 

 eggs of the same species. 



H3rpotaenidia striata (Linn.). 



Rallus striatus, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 427. 



Hypotsenidia striata, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 352 ; Hume Sf Marsh. 



Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 245 (1879), iii. App. pi. ii. (1880) ; Legge, 



Birds Ceyl. p. 775 (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. iii. 



p. 399 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 33 (1894) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 95 (1899). 



The eggs of the Blue-breasted Banded Eail vary from a pinkish 

 white to a salmon-pink or pinkish buff. The markings, which are 

 pretty evenly distributed over the whole shell, consist of specks, 



