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and in some examples it is of a pale grpenisli white or stone-colour. 

 The markings consist of specks, spots, and very small blotches of 

 pale purple and dark maroon-brown. Numerous specimens measure 

 from 1-15 to 1-4 in length, and from "8 to '1 in breadth. 



10. 

 10. 



4 



1. 



5. 

 9. 

 4. 



6. 

 1. 

 7. 

 8. 

 3. 

 1. 

 10. 



8. 

 4. 



Vallsenswaard, Holland {J. Baker). 



Valkenswaard, 12th May (H. See- 



bohm). 



' 12th May {S. S. : 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. ■ 



Valkenswaard, 



Hargitt Coll. 

 Valkenswaard,' 14th May {H. S.: Seebohm Coll 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 Valkenswaard, 14th May (H. S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 19th May (s. S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 19th May {H. S.). 

 Valkenswaai'd, 19th May (S. S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 19th May (H. S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 21st May (H. /S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 21st May (S. S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 24th May (S. S.). 

 Valkenswaard, 25th May {S. S.). 

 Allkerk, Holland, 6th June (/. 



Baker). 

 South Holland. 



Brunswick, 9th May (JT. Seebohm) . 

 Livonia, Baltic Pro vs. {Sussow). 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm CoU. 

 Seebohm Qoll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-GodmBu Coll. 



Lord Lilford [P.], 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Forzana Carolina (Linri.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Porzana Carolina, Baird, Brewer Sf Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 370 

 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 97 (1894J; id. ITand-l. i, 

 p. 101 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Carolina, or Sora, Crake in the Collection 

 closely resemble those eggs of P. porzana in which the ground is 

 of a pale buff colour. They measure respectively : 1'25 by '9 ; 1"23 

 by -9 ; 1-3 by -9. 



1, N. America {Smiths. Inst.'). 



2. N. America {Henshaw Coll.). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Forzana pusilla, Pall. 



Gallinula pygmsea, Thien. Fortpfian%. ges. Vog. tab. Ixxiii. fig. 2, a-o 



(1845-54). 

 Zapomia pygmsea, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 44. fig. 3 (1855-68). 

 Orex bailloni, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 377, pi. cvi. fig. i 



(1856~) ; Sahin, Ibis, 1859, p. 361 ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 543, 



pi. 28 (1884) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 84, pi. 22. fig. 4 (1896). 

 Porzana bailloni, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 275 (1878)_. 

 Porzana pygmsea. Cowan, Proc. B. Phys. Soc. Edin. vii. p. 149 (1882) ; 



Milne-Edwards 8r Cfrandidier, Sist. Nat. Madag., Ois. ii. p. 678, 



pi. 306. fig. 4 (1885). 



